Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Free Trade Unionism -- 2. "No More Pressing Task Than Organizing in Southeast Asia" -- 3. "It's a Vast Jungle and We're Working on the Periphery" -- 4. New Frontiers -- 5. Into the Quagmire -- 6. Free Fall, 1968-69 -- 7. Entangling...

Key Features:By studying the most recent movements on both macro and micro levels, the book provides an insightful overview of the future of East Asian countriesEach country is treated from a unique viewpoint that symbolizes its distinctive characteristics, while at the same time, the movements...

On 1 January 2004, the US–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA)came into force. The USSFTA was the result of a two-year negotiationprocess which started towards the end of the Clinton Administrationand concluded under the Bush Administration. How did the negotiationprocess straddle the...

This volume is the outgrowth of a conference held at Peking Universityin May 2002, jointly sponsored by the American Committee on AsianEconomic Studies, the Peking University School of Economics, and theChina Reform Forum. The contributors include leading scholars fromAsia as well as specialists...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. What Shapes National Trade Policy -- 2. Making Trade Relations Work -- 3. Trade Cooperation before 1914 -- 4. The Failed Attempts of the Interwar Years -- 5. The Founding of the Postwar System -- 6. The First...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Interdependence and Conflict: An Introduction -- Part 1. Theoretical Foundations -- Domestic Politics -- Pax Mercatoria and the Theory of the State -- Economic Interdependence, the Democratic State, and the Liberal Peace -- Internationalization,...

Focuses on key business issues facing East Asia that corporations and governments should understand, including regionalization initiatives, obstacles to continued rapid growth in China, aging and pension reform, and the changing security environment.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- TABLES -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 HYPERINFLATION AND STABILIZATION -- 2 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND -- 3 STABILIZATION POLICY CHOICES IN POST-LIBERATION GREECE -- 4 THE "VARVARESSOS EXPERIMENT -- 5 THE LONDON AGREEMENT OF...

Provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalisation that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that give 'global' its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalisation as it is...

"New World Economies is a valuable addition to the body of literature about economic development in eighteenth-century North America, and a much-needed comparative study of the British and French colonies. Egnal presents a cogent explanation for why the staple export thesis has not adequately...