Political and Economic Transition in East Asia

<p>The book examines the political and economic developments in East Asia since the end of the Cold War in an attempt to identify a broad pattern of transition particularly in terms of the reshaping of the state's relations with forces and institutions in economy politics and domestic- international interactions. The chapters are organised into three parts: I: The state in the new economy; II: The state in the new politics; III: The state in the new global environment. The contributors find a general pattern of the state's withdrawal from these three areas. But it is not simply that the market takes over as some envisaged. Instead the transition is moving towards a set of governance-producing arrangements in which the role of both the market and the state are appreciated. The book concludes that a more sophisticated approach is needed to the problems of development vs. governance the state vs. the market and global dynamics vs. national interests for a better understanding of the dynamic transition and the consequent new political economy in East Asia.</p>