Asia-Pacific : new geographies of the Pacific rim

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Asia-Pacific : new geographies of the Pacific rim

editors, R.F. Watters and T.G. McGee ; assistant editor, Ginny Sullivan

Hurst , UBC Press, c1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: cn : hc ISBN 9780774806466

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The great processes reshaping our world today can be summed up by theterm "globalisation". Together with the communicationsrevolution and massive urbanisation, it is reshaping theorganisation ofglobal space. It is illustrated by technological change, pronouncedeconomic growth, the dominance of giant corporations, ever more openmarkets and universal consumption. Dramatic developments have occurredin Asia-Pacific trade, investment, labour movements and politicalcooperation, marked for example by APEC, a giant free-trade areadesigned to encompass about 60% of the world's population and halfthe world's economy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Dedication Abbreviations The Contributors 1. Introduction / T.G. McGee and R.F. Watters Part I. Globalisation and the Emergence of Sub-GlobalRegions: The Case of the Asia-Pacific 2. Regional Integration, Internationalisation and the NewGeographies of the Pacific Rim / Dean Forbes 3. Globalisation, Urbanisation and the Emergence of Sub-GlobalRegions: A Case Study of the Asia-Pacific Region / T.G.McGee 4. Pacific Rim Trade and APEC / Ron Sandrey 5. Asia-Pacific Regional Integration and Human Rights /Christopher Tremewan Part II. Processes of Change in the Asia-Pacific Region 6. Imitating the Rich: The Imperatives of Consumption / HarveyFranklin 7. An Agricultural Transition on the Pacific Rim: ExplorationsToward a Model / R.D. Hill 8. Japan's Foreign Direct Investment in the Pacific Rim,1985-1993 / Peter J. Rimmer 9. Effectiveness and Replicability of East Asian Industrial Policies/ Robert Wade 10. Facing the Urban Environmental Challenge / Yok-shiu F.Lee Part III. National Responses to Globalisation in theAsia-Pacific Region 11. The East Asian Growth Model: South Korean Experience / R.M.Auty 12. The Rise of the Yen, 'Hollowing Out' and Japan'sTroubled Industries / David W. Edgington 13. China in the Year 2000: Prospects for the Late Reform Era /David S.G. Goodman 14. Taiwan's Economic Growth and Its Southward Policy in Asia /Gerald Chan 15. Population Change and Development in Indonesia / GraemeHugo Part IV. Sites of Resistance, Negotiation andCapitulation 16. Intrusion of Global Forces and Transformation of a LocalChineses Economy: The Experience of Dongguan / George Chu-shengLin 17. Ideological Abstractions, Bureaucratic Imperatives and HumanCreativity: A Philippines Narrative / Warwick Armstrong 18. Ethnicity, Geography, History and Nationalism: A Future ofEthnic Strife for the Inland Border Peoples of Mainland Southeast Asia?/ John McKinnon 19. Transforming the Periphery: The Case of Sarawak, Malaysia /Philip S. Morrison 20. Resource Extraction and the Postcolonial State in SolomonIslands / Ian Frazer 21. Conclusion / T.G. McGee and R.F. Watters Selected Readings on the Asia-Pacific Index
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ISBN 9781850653202

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Examining the extent to which Pacific Rim economies are increasingly becoming integrated, this text considers the forces - economic, political and cultural - at work. In the process many "new geographies" are being created or reconstructed. The "local-global dialectic", by which local forces react to, negotiate with, resist or capitulate to global forces is also scrutinized in detail.
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: pbk ISBN 9781850653219

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Examining the extent to which Pacific Rim economies are increasingly becoming integrated, this text considers the forces - economic, political and cultural - at work. In the process many "new geographies" are being created or reconstructed. The "local-global dialectic", by which local forces react to, negotiate with, resist or capitulate to global forces is also scrutinized in detail.

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