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Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0801472504 |
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Have Japan's relative economic decline and China's rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power, one of the most comprehensive volumes on East Asian regionalism in the 1990s, present here an impressive new collection that brings the reader up to date.This book argues that East Asia's regional dynamics are no longer the result of a simple extension of any one national model. While Japanese institutional structures and political practices remain critically important, the new East Asia now under construction is more than, and different from, the sum of its various national parts. At the outset of a new century, the interplay of Japanese factors with Chinese, American, and other national influences is producing a distinctively new East Asian region.
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Asian Regionalism (Cornell East Asia Series)
Manufacturer: Cornell Univ East Asia Program ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1885445075 |
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Regionalism is of growing relevance to the political economy of Asia-Pacific. In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, this timely volume investigates in four different chapters the dynamics of Asian regionalism during the 1980s and 1990s. Specifically, it focuses on Japanese and Chinese business networks in Northeast and Southeast Asia and the effects of economic, monetary and financial policies on regional cooperation. Asian regionalism is an important factor that both complements and shapes corporate strategies and government policies in a globalizing economy.
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Southeast Asia: Diversity and Development
Thomas R. Leinbach , and Richard Ulack Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0138251266 |
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This comprehensive survey of Southeast Asia addresses the specific problems related to the uneven economic development of the region versus the rest of the world and within the context of the geography, history, culture, society, and economics of that region. While the emphasis is on the present, it examines the past as a means of understanding current patterns. Addressing the latest issues and developments relating to Southeast Asia, this book also presents the indigenous culture, external forces, population and settlement characteristics, and economic patterns of the region. The book covers a wide range of settings and conditions, from the chaos and isolation of the politics in Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia to the economic development in Singapore. It also presents the inequality and poverty in nations where economic progress has been recorded. An essential resource for anyone doing business in Southeast Asia, or traveling to the region.Customer Reviews:
An informative text.......2003-06-27
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East Asian Economic Regionalism: Feasibilities and Challenges
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0387243305 |
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Economic regionalism has become a worldwide phenomenon. Since the Asian financial crisis, East Asian countries are accelerating the ongoing market-driven economic integration as well as institutional economic integration. The question is whether East Asia can reach an East Asian FTA (EAFTA), which is the first step towards institutional economic integration.
East Asian Economic Regionalism attempts to analyze the feasibilities of economic integration in East Asia and to discuss emerging economic integration efforts in East Asia with special reference to an East Asian FTA. Although economic integration is desirable economically, positions and approaches of each regional economy toward East Asian economic integration may differ depending on the circumstances of the countries concerned. East Asian Economic Regionalism provides diverse positions on East Asian economic integration by ASEAN countries, as well as the Northeastern countries of China, Japan and Korea. The volume also provides economic assessment of EAFTA and evaluates East Asian economic integration. East Asian Economic Regionalism may be the first book on East Asian economic integration with positions toward economic integration of major players in the region.
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Advancing East Asian Regionalism (Politics in Asia)
Melissa Curley Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415349095 |
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Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the needs of their attendant peoples, but also challenged the viability of regional organizations, such as ASEAN, to adapt and respond to the changing circumstances.
Advancing East Asian Regionalism looks at the ways in which ASEAN has expanded since the crisis and evaluates the potential of East Asia to come together in a regional formation - one capable of representing the region as whole - akin to the European Community.
This volume draws upon the knowledge base of academics and policy-makers actively engaged in the contradictory issues of regionalism and will be an invaluable resource to those studying Asian studies/politics and international relations.
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East Asian Economic Regionalism
Edward J. Lincoln Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0815752172 |
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Something new is happening across East Asia. A region notable for its lack of internal economic links is discussing regional cooperation on trade, investment, and exchange rates. Because of negotiations elsewhere around the globe on regional tradesuch as those that led to the consolidation of the European Union, the formation of the North American Free Trade Area, and the rapid proliferation of bilateral free trade areasthe talk is not surprising. Nevertheless, East Asia's past inertia with regard to forming a regional partnership raises many questions about its emerging regionalism. Why has the region suddenly shifted from taking a global approach to economic issues to discussing a regional bloc? How fast and how far will the new regionalism progress? Will the region become a version of the European Union, or something far less? What is the probable impact on American economic and strategic interestsare the likely developments something that the U.S. government should encourage or discourage? Edward Lincoln takes up these questions, exploring what is happening to regional trade and investment flows and what sort of regional arrangements are the most sensible.Lincoln argues that an exclusive grouping is unlikely. Free trade negotiations have brought some economies in the region together, but they also have led to links with nations outside the region. Some regional governments most notably Japan, continue to have difficulty embracing the concept of free trade, even with favored regional partners. In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, governments also have looked at cooperating on exchange rates, but they have done little to move forward.
The U.S. government must decide how to respond to these developments in East Asia. An exclusively Asian form of regionalism could run counter to American economic interests, and the U.S. government has reacted negatively to some of these proposals in the past. Because trade and investment links between the countries of the Asia Pacific region and the United States remain very strong, Lincoln argues that the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum remains the appropriate institution for pursuing regional trade and investment issues.
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East Asian Regionalism
Christophe Dent Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 041543484X |
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Written by a leading scholar on East Asian regionalism, this book provides a comprehensive, systematic and coherent analysis of East Asian regionalism.
The significance of East Asia in the international economic system continues to grow. It is one of the world's three dominant economic regions, is home to two of the world's top four largest economies and also hosts a number of dynamic `tiger' economies. East Asia accounts for over a quarter of world production and trade, and its centres of innovation make important contributions to the development of the global economy.
Although this volume focuses mostly on economic and political economy matters (because it is here where regional integration and co-operation have developed the furthest by far) it also considers various political, security and socio-cultural related determinants behind East Asia's deepening regionalism.
The generic and comprehensive appeal of East Asian Regionalism means that it will be essential as a set text on the East Asian region, the East Asian economy or on East Asian regionalism itself.
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Economic Regionalization in the Asia-Pacific: Challenges to Economic Cooperation
Manoranjan Dutta Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 185898825X |
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This original and comprehensive book provides a unique insight into the development of economic regionalization, with special reference to the Asia-Pacific. It presents international globalization strategies from a historical perspective and then analyzes the effects on the development of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Focusing on APEC itself, the author provides a detailed investigation into its organization and agenda, and thorough personal interviews with some of the most influential people who have worked for APEC. Professor Dutta argues that the core of emerging new economic regionalization must relate to (i) a map-of-the world view of the region, and (ii) an intraregional, multilateral cooperative effort to map an economic region on to the geographic region. Economic regions formed before World War II such as center-periphery models and the North-South divide have not been successful as formal arrangements. At the beginning of the 1960s, Western Europe gave birth to a unique model of economic regionalization, now known as the European Union. Economic regionalization in the Asia-Pacific historically followed the West European experiments and eventually developed into APEC. The author examines two major challenges to regionalization in the Asia-Pacific, firstly, the limited macroeconomic coordination and, secondly, the geographical coverage of formal arrangements. Additionally, the institutional growth of APEC was heavily influenced by the now disbanded group of eminent persons. This work contributes uniquely to our understanding and insight of economic regionalization in this area through detailed interviews with former members of this group. Economic Regionalization in the Asia-Pacific will be especially useful to policy makers as well as scholars of Asian studies, international economics, globalization and trade.
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The Emerging North-South Divide in East Asia: A Reappraisal of Asian Regionalism
Manufacturer: Times Academic Press,Singapore ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9812103384 |
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Europe, East Asia and APEC: A Shared Global Agenda (Global Economic Institutions)
Peter Drysdale , and David Vines Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 052163315X |
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This book contrasts regional economic integration in the Asia Pacific Region and in Europe. In the Asia Pacific Region, regionalism is developing by means of "open regionalism," constructed through the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Process). This is different from the regionalism that has developed in Europe through the construction of a single European Market and Monetary Union within the European Union. In the light of this contrast, a number of important contemporary policy questions are considered by an international team of contributors. How should Europe and other parts of the world respond to the development of open regionalism in the Asia Pacific Region? Can these regions develop a shared global agenda directed toward sustaining genuinely multilateral solutions to international trade policy problems over the coming years?
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Medicine on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents (On Trial)
Elisabeth Cawthon Manufacturer: ABC-CLIO ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1851095640 Release Date: 2004-03-09 |
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Through close examination of legal, historical, and medical sources, this volume sheds light on the evolution of U.S. law as it bears on bio-ethical issues, advances in medical technology, and the changing role of medicine in the American courtroom during the last 150 years. In doing so, it provides a clear, accessible introduction to such major medical and legal controversies as the "right to die," assisted suicide, bioengineering, reproductive rights, and DNA testing.An extensive collection of important documents is included, along with a glossary of key people, events, and concepts; a chronology; a table of cases cited; an annotated bibliography; and a comprehensive index.
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Biology, food and people: The economic importance of biology
Robert Barrass Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006CEDS2 |
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Biology: Food and people : the economic importance of biology (Unibooks)
Robert Barrass Manufacturer: Hodder and Stoughton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007ASP64 |
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Cenozoic Seas: The View From Eastern North America
Edward J. Petuch Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0849316324 |
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>The rich fossil record of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States is a gold mine for interested scientists. The last thirty million years of Earth history are superbly chronicled by a succession of fossil assemblages extending from the St. Lawrence River to Florida. Marine scientists, paleontologists, and systematic biologists alike need a thorough guide to interpret this history. Cenozoic Seas: The View from Eastern North America analyzes the changing geography, the arrival and departures of ecosystems and species, and the affect of climate on living things. The author classifies all of the region's fossil-bearing formations and their contents within a logical, descriptive framework of space and time, providing a clear path for those studying evolution and extinction within specific communities of organisms. The book is also an excellent field guide for fossil collectors, providing detailed information for all species illustrated. Many organisms have never before been illustrated in a book on fossil shells.
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An Excellent Guide to South Florida Fossiling.......2005-10-30
Fossil Mollusk Of Florida.......2005-05-11
Relevant to today's world.......2005-01-05
A MUST HAVE book for fossil shell collectors.......2004-06-24
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Cenozoic Seas: The View from Eastern North America
Edward J. Petuch Manufacturer: CRC Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: B000MBSW0C |
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Isocyanide complexes of metals (Interscience monographs on chemistry: inorganic chemistry section)
Lamberto Malatesta Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0470565551 |
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An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems, 2nd Edition
Robert L. Devaney Manufacturer: Westview Pr (Short Disc) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0813340853 |
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The study of nonlinear dynamical systems has exploded in the past 25 years, and Robert L. Devaney has made these advanced research developments accessible to undergraduate and graduate mathematics students as well as researchers in other disciplines with the introduction of this widely praised book. In this second edition of his best-selling text, Devaney includes new material on the orbit diagram fro maps of the interval and the Mandelbrot set, as well as striking color photos illustrating both Julia and Mandelbrot sets. This book assumes no prior acquaintance with advanced mathematical topics such as measure theory, topology, and differential geometry, Assuming only a knowledge of calculus, Devaney introduces many of the basic concepts of modern dynamical systems theory and leads the reader to the point of current research in several areas.Customer Reviews:
Great Introduction to the topic.......2007-03-09
Excellent book; unique in its accessibility and coverage of deep results.......2005-09-14
Good introduction to the beginning student.......2001-08-11
Chapter 1 introduces one-dimensional dynamics, with the analysis of the quadratic map given particular attention. Called the logistic map in some circles, this very important dynamical system has been the subject of much study, and exhibits generically the properties of chaotic dynamical systems. The author also gives a brief review of some elementary notions in calculus needed for the chapter, making the book even more accessible to a wider readership. The important concept of hyperbolicity is discussed in the context of one-dimensional maps and a good discussion is given on symbolic dynamics. Structural stability, which is really useful only in dynamical systems in higher dimensions, is treated here. The intuition gained in one-dimension is invaluable though before moving on to higher-dimensional examples. Sarkovskii's theorem, which states that a one-dimensional dynamical system with a period three periodic orbit has periodic orbits for all other periods, is proved in detail. In addition, the Schwarzian derivative, so important in complex dynamics, is defined here. The author also gives an introduction to bifurcation theory, which again, is most interesting in high dimensions, and introduces the concept of homoclinicity in this discussion. Maps of the circle and the all-important Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms, are treated in this chapter also. The author introduces the reader briefly to the idea of genericity when discussing Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms. Kneading theory, so important in the mathematical theory of dynamical systems, is introduced here also.
In chapter 2, the author generalizes the results to higher dimensions, and begins with a review of linear algebra and some results from multivariable calculus, such as the implicit function theorem and the contraction mapping theorem. This is followed by a treatment of the dynamics of linear maps in two and three dimensions. Whereas the canonical example of one-dimensional dynamics is represented by the logistic map, in higher-dimensional dynamics this is represented by the Smale horseshoe map. The author carefully constructs this map and details its properties. Then he takes up the hyperbolic toral automorphisms (or Anosov systems as they are called in some books). Both the Smale horseshoe map and the toral automorphisms are excellent, easily understandable examples of higher dimensional dynamics and the associated symbolic dynamics.
The concept of an attractor is also treated in chapter 2 in the context of the solenoid and the Plykin attractor. Both of these are of purely mathematical interest, but by studying them the physicist reader can get a better understanding of what to look for in actual physical examples of attractors (or the more exotic concept of a strange attractor). The author also gives a proof of the stable manifold theorem in dimension two. This is the best part of the book, for this theorem is rarely proved in textbooks on chaotic dynamics, the proof being delegated to the original papers. However, the proof in these papers is extremely difficult to get through, and so the author has given the reader a nice introduction to this important result, even though it is done only in two dimensions. This is followed by a very understandable discussion of Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms. In addition, the author introduces the Hopf bifurcation, of upmost importance in applications, and introduces the Henon map as an application of the results obtained so far.
The last chapter of the book is a brief overview of complex analytic dynamics. Complex dynamical systems are very important from a mathematical point of view, and they have fascinating connections with number theory, cryptography, algebraic geometry, and coding theory. The author reviews some elementary complex analysis and then reintroduces the quadratic maps but this time over the complex plane instead of the real line. The Julia set is introduced, and the reader who has not seen the computer graphical images of this set should peruse the Web for these images, due to their beauty. The geometry of the Julia set and the associated complex polynomial maps are given a fairly detailed treatment by the author in the space provided.
The best starting point........2000-06-25
The best starting point........2000-06-25
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X: Writings '79-'82
John Cage Manufacturer: Distributed by Harper & Row ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0819550906 |
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One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them," he attempts in X to create looser structures in both life and art, to free "my writing from my intentions."Books:
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