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Pacific Asia in the Global System: An Introduction

ISBN: 978-0-631-20238-7

August 1998

Wiley-Blackwell

292 pages

Description
This introduction will serve as a 'first stop' for those interested in Japan, its role in the Pacific Asian region and, in turn, that region's role in the evolving global system. In this volume, P. W. Preston critically analyses the political economy, social institutions and culture of Pacific Asia. The analysis focuses on Japan , it's relations with the inner periphery of Southeast Asia, and its developing linkages with the reforming socialist countries of China and Indo-China

The critical perspective, awareness of cultural and ethnic trends and a sophisticated grasp of social patterns makes this volume an essential introduction to the region.

About the Author
P.W. Preston is Reader in Political Sociology in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Features
  • This volume is unique in that it is directly concerned with the region as a whole
  • Cross-disciplinary and therefore wide ranging in its set of concerns, covering history, economics, development theory and politics.