will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and the challenges it … faces in forging ahead of world leaders in the West. The impact of the current turbulent global political climate on Asia is … insights on Asia …

, industrialization and the government, using primary data from major countries in Asia and Africa. This book is indispensable reading for …

1 Emerging States and Economies in Asia: A Historical and Comparative Perspective (Takashi Shiraishi) -- 2 … History: A Perspective from Monsoon Asia (Kaoru Sugihara) -- 4 Financing Colonial State Building: A Comparative Study of the …

deteriorating even in East Asia that was once praised for its high economic growth with equity. Increasing pressure for political … -- 2 Responses to the Middle-income Trap in China, Malaysia, and Thailand(Akira Suehiro) -- 3 The Middle-income Trap in the … Taiwan and Thailand (Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Meng-chun Liu) -- 7 Changing Resource-based Manufacturing Industry: The …

Transfer and Agricultural Development: A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa(Keijiro Otsuka) -- 3 Southeast Asia and … Early-Modern Southeast Asian Trade(Atsushi Ota) -- 5 Growth of Regional Trade in Modern Southeast Asia: The Rise of …, Industrial Development, and Structural Transformation in Asia and Africa (Yuki Higuchi and Go Shimada) -- 10 Transformation of …

progression of a range of different industries in Asia, this volume provokes readers to reconsider their current understanding of … Asia; Hajime Sato -- 6. 'Catch-down' Innovation in Developing Countries; Tomoo Marukawa -- 7. Industrial Development for … Natural Resource-Rich Countries in Asia; Yuri Sato -- 8. Resource-Based Industrialization of the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry …

framework or, in an institutionalized form, security community, in Northeast Asia, the authors in this volume are realistic as … disappointment. The past two years again saw the rising of tensions in Northeast Asia and the masterful way in which even an … and maybe even more than ever the search for a stable security framework for Northeast Asia as a precondition for peaceful …

The remarkable economic growth of Asia has been the defining feature of the second half of this century. This book … offers a comprehensive overview of the scientific, technological and economic factors which enabled Asia to make such a … predictions for how Asia might face up to the new challenges of the next millennium …

Asia is widely regarded as having benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization. By … book seeks to find ways to rediscover and resume a pattern of shared growth in Asia …