Acknowledgements -- The terrible August 2013 -- The start of the Mediterranean crisis -- The world’s economic crisis -- The chickens have come home to roost -- The old and new convergence -- Responding to strategic divergence -- Fossil hydrocarbons and the fragmentation of growth -- The future...

This book applies a spatial economics perspective to the understanding of the recent dynamism of the global economy, with particular focus on East Asia, and examines the prospects of regional integration in East Asia