Globalization and Social Transformation in the Asia-Pacific - The Australian and Malayasian Experience

"As the Asia-Pacific region develops in economic strength and influence in the twenty-first century, a deeper understanding of the differences and commonalities among the countries of this region is needed. Australia and Malaysia share the Asia-Pacific region with powerful neighbours such as China and Indonesia, as well as small fledgling democracies such as Timor Leste. This timely volume compares these two societies on key issues and tensions relating to globalization and social transformation, including foreign policy and national security; multiculturalism and citizenship; the middle class; global governance; migrants, human rights and international students. The contributors explore the contested and lively debates that emerge through the expanded mobility of ideas and people in this so-called 'Asian Century'"--

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• Authors: C. Tazreiter, Claudia Tham Tazreiter
• Assisted by: Tazreiter (Editor), C Tazreiter (Editor), C. Tazreiter (Editor), Claudia Tazreiter (Editor), Tham (Editor), Tham (Editor), S. Tham (Editor), Siew Yean Tham (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2013
• EAN: 9781137298379
• ISBN: 978-1-137-29837-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific; Critical Studies of the Asia-P; Critical Studies of the Asia-P; Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Globalisierung, Soziologie, Asien, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Sociology, Globalization, Cultural Studies, Politik und Staat, Asia, Entwicklungsstudien, International Relations, Politics & government, Sociology, general, Economic development, Development Studies, Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Asia—Politics and government, Asian Politics, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia