Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim

Ravi Arvind Palat is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghampton and has previously taught at the Universities of Hawaii and Auckland.

• Preface and Acknowledgements List of Tables and Figures Introduction: Dragons, Tigers and Other Myths of Our Time 1. Geopolitical Ecology of US Hegemony Korean War, Military Keynesianism, and the New World Order Free Enterprise System and the Changing Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Production 2. Strong States, Weak Societies: State and Class in the Asian Rimlands Recasting State-Society Relations Summary 3. The Making of Industrial Behemoths: Patterns of State Intervention and Industrial Organization Politics in Command? Patterns of Industrial Organization 4. Crisis of US Hegemony and the Growth of Regional Economic Integration in Pacific-Asia The Gathering Storm Riding the Dollar Juggernaut Making the 'Miracle' Economies of the Pacific Rim Reprise and Review 5. Debts and Delusions: Crumbling of a Regional Economy Years of Living Dangerously A Paradise of the Blind Things Fall Apart A Change of Skies 6. A Bonfire of Illusions A Brave New World Houses of Glass Epilogue: A Future Imperfect: Remaking a Regional Economy Notes Tables Figures Bibliography

'A very detailed synthesis of a large variety of empirical materials presented in previous scholarly work by other social scientists.' - Progress in Human Geography