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Joseph A.
Camilleri,
Professor of International Relations, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe
University, Melbourne, Australia |
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Description:
The twin
processes of integration and fragmentation have been the distinguishing
features of contemporary globalization. Nowhere is this more strikingly
evident than in the Asia Pacific.
This first volume of a two-volume study concentrates on the geopolitical
and economic transformation of Asia Pacific. It focuses on the complex
relationship between the decline of ideological bipolarity, the rapid
industrialization of East Asia and the tensions generated by the shifting
balance of regional and global economic interests.
Particular attention is devoted to the three major powers (the United
States, China and Japan) and to a number of small and middle powers in
particular Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Australia and Canada.
Underpinning the entire analysis is the complex interplay of geopolitics,
economy and culture.
States, Markets and Civil Society in Asia Pacific is essential reading for
scholars and researchers of Asia Pacific politics and economy. The
coherent analysis will also ensure the books appeal to those in NGOs and
government agencies affected by, or working in, the region.
'The book
will serve as a comprehensive, sophisticated and well-researched guide to
the Pacific Rim's most recent past, worth reading. . . Recommended for
public, academic (upper-division undergraduate and up), and professional
library collections.'
- R.P. Gardella, Choice
'Once again Joseph Camilleri has written a major work. Drawing on a vast
literature, he has compiled a coherent whole out of the innumerable
pieces of the vast puzzle that is the Asia Pacific. Conceiving of the
area as three regional subsystems, his analysis is an impressive blend
of historical, conceptual, and empirical materials that focus on the
interplay of geopolitics and geoeconomics in a major part of the world
that will substantially shape the course of world affairs in the decades
ahead. Camilleri brings a keen understanding of the dynamics of change,
democratization, and civil society to bear on both the varieties and
uniformities to be found in the Asia-Pacific at the outset of a new
century.'
- James N. Rosenau, The George
Washington University, US
'. . . this is indeed an outstanding book which ought to be read by all
who are interested in the political economy of the Asia Pacific region. I
look forward to Camilleri's second volume on the development of
multilateral approaches to economics and security co-operation in Asia
Pacific.'
- Peng Er Lam, Asia Pacific Journal of Management
'His analyses of how such security complexes, in leading to the collective
identity formation within multilateralist efforts in the region, will no
doubt contribute to making the second volume of this study equally well
worth reading.'
- Stuart Harris, Pacifica Review
'. . . Camilleri's book . . . will work well as an undergraduate text . .
. It might also be of interest to academics not immediately familiar with
how the region's economy relates to geopolitics as a secondary reference
text.'
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Alexius A. Pereira, Asia Pacific Business Review
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