Asia-Pacific, Regionalism and the Global System

Edited by Christopher M. Dent, Leeds Trinity University, UK and Jörn Dosch, Professor and Chair of International Politics and Development Cooperation, Department of Political Science, University of Rostock, Germany

• Contents:PrefacePART I: INTRODUCTION1. The Asia-Pacific, Regionalism and the Global System: An IntroductionJörn Dosch and Christopher M. DentPART II: ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: ASIA-PACIFIC AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES2. Is Japanese Foreign Direct Investment Fostering Production Networks in Mexico?Melba Falck Reyes3. Managing the Great Recession in South Korea and Mexico: Economic Institutions, Domestic Market and Regional TradeJosé Luis León-Manríquez4. On Globalisation and Region-building: The Case of North AmericaArturo Santa-CruzPART III: REGIONAL AND GLOBAL MULTILATERALISM5. The Numbers Game in Asia-Pacific CooperationJohn Ravenhill6. The Principle of ‘Subsidiarity’ and Asian UnificationYao Chaocheng7. Asia Shaping the Group of 20 or the Group of 20 Shaping Asia?Hugo Dobson8. From G8 to G20: A Shift of the Dynamics of Global Economic Governance?Hong Yousheng and Fang Qing9. Regional Answers to the Global Crisis? Asia-Pacific Multilateral Organisations and the Economic DownturnJörn Dosch10. Intra-regional Geopolitical Dynamics in Northeast AsiaCheol Hee Park PART IV: EAST ASIA AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT11. China and the Changing Nature of GlobalisationJeffrey Henderson12. China’s Developmental Experience: Lessons for the Asia-PacificMinglu Chen and David S.G. Goodman13. China’s Move to High-tech Innovation: Some Regional Policy ImplicationsRichard P. Appelbaum and Rachel Parker 14. A Northeast Asian Model of ODA? Comparing Chinese, Japanese and Korean Official Development Assistance James ReillyPART V: SOCIETAL PERSPECTIVES15. The Rise of an Empire: EXPO 2010 as a Symbol of the Ambiguity of Chinese ModernisationSimen Andersen Øyen16. The Century Belongs to All of Us: East Asian Regionalism and World SocietyChristopher M. Dent Index

’Dent and Dosch have put together a superb volume that explores new dimensions of the world events for the past five decades and take decrypting the processes of regionalism, global system, and world society to a new height. The contributors have enhanced our understanding of how regionalism has been changing, when a world society will be created, and why East Asia's centrality matters in this unfolding drama. Policymakers, academics, and mass media opinion makers will find the book useful, provocative, and refreshing.’