Böcker av Mark Beeson

This book examines the distinctive evolution of the political and economic relationships of East Asia. It does this by placing East Asian development in the unique historical circumstances that have underpinned its rise to power over the last few decades. This detailed analysis provides the basis for an assessment of a unified East Asian region.

This book evaluates climate change and populism, two ideas that do not generally go together. In this book, the author explains why populist forms of political action may yet provide the key to effective policies, which are often discussed but less frequently implemented.

A consideration of crucial questions that have emerged as a result of the economic crisis in East Asia. It focuses both on specific regional organizations like ASEAN and APEC, as well as on key institutions such as East Asian legal systems, the media, organized labour, and more.

The Asia-Pacific is arguably the important, but also the complex and contested, region on the planet. This book examines how this region is developing, and what role established organisations like APEC and bodies like ASEAN are playing in this process.

Since the end of the Cold War capitalism has become the dominant form of economic and political organization across the globe. Competing Capitalisms explains why some countries have developed very different forms of capitalism and what happens when they interact.