Development Without Freedom: The Politics of Asian Globalization - Hardcover

Thornton, Songok Han

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754672271 ISBN 13: 9780754672272

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Thanks to the inroads of IMFism and the "war on terror," America has lost much of the soft power it enjoyed in Asia during the early 1990s. The winners, by default, are some of the world's most undemocratic development models, such as Sino-globalism. "Asian values" took a hard blow from the Asian Crash, but have returned in this even more virulent form. The West is left sitting on the sidelines of a distinctly Asian contest of development with or without freedom. Development Without Freedom explores this crucial trial-by-development, which will define the politics of globalization for decades to come.

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About the Author

Songok Han Thornton is a Research Assistant Professor of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan. Professor William H. Thornton is Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754672271
• ISBN 13: 9780754672272
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248