1st Edition

East Asia 2000 and Beyond Shaping Factors/Shaping Actors

By Wolfgang Pape Copyright 1998
    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    This wide ranging survey uses the latest methodological apparatus including sophisticated computer modelling techniques to identify the key political, social and economic trends which are likely to shape the East Asian region at the millennium and beyond.

    Introduction, Methodology of Shaping Factors - Shaping Actors 1 General Socio-Political Factors and Development, the Cultural Base in East Asia 2 Japan at a Turning Point: Political Reforms at Home[1]and the Return to Asia? 3 The Koreas: Interrupted Unification Euphoria and Nuclear Brinkmanship, Globalisation and Domestic Structural Challenges 4 China - Great Power or Greater China? 5 ASEAN - Politics and Economic Development 6 The Impact of Regional Heterogeneity - Understanding the Forces of Tension in East Asia

    Biography

    Wolfgang Pape

    'The book offers a rich and detailled picture of how anthropology emerged and interacted in a variety of colonial situations under two dominant colonizing nations.' - Miriam Sharma, The Journal of Asian Studies