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Informationen zum Autor Shaun Breslin in Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at Warwick, Associate Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, and honorary Professorial Fellow of the Centre for European Studies at Renmin University in Beijing. His publications are mainly on the political economy of contemporary China, and his latest book, China and the Global Political Economy, was published by Palgrave in early 2007. Richard Higgott is formerly Professor of International Politics in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University and now Professor of Politics and International Studies and Foundation Director of the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick. He is currently Senior Scientist and Director of an EU Framework 6 Network of Excellence on Global Governance and Regulation and co-editor of Global Governance. Amongst other things he has written extensively on the international political economy of regionalism in East and the Pacific. Klappentext The contemporary importance of the Asia-Pacific region in international relations has generated a very large and diverse academic literature. This four-volume set brings together for the first time a collection of essential articles covering the key themes and issues since the end of the Cold War. It examines the ways in which the region understands its place in the world and how the rest of the world understands the 'Asia Pacific', before turning to matters of security, international political economy and regional governance. Volume I: Theorizing International Relations: Asia Views the World and the World Views Asia Volume II: International Relations in Practice: Securities Old and New Volume III: The International Political Economy of Development in East Asia Volume IV: Regions and Regionalism Series description: The SAGE Library of International Relations brings together the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in a number of key areas of research and inquiry in International Relations. Each multi-volume set represents a collection of the essential published works collated from the foremost publications in the field by an editor or editorial team of renowned international stature. They also include a full introduction, presenting a rationale for the selection and mapping out the discipline's past, present and likely future. This series is designed to be a 'gold standard' for university libraries throughout the world with an interest in International Relations. Zusammenfassung Each multi-volume set represents a collection of the essential published works collated from the foremost publications in the field by an editor or editorial team of renowned international stature. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME 1: THEORISING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS The Balance of Power, Globalization, and Democracy: International Relations Theory in Northeast Asia - Stephan Haggard Area Studies and Discipline Area Studies, Regional Studies, and International Relations - Peter J. Katzenstein Boundary Displacement: Area Studies and International Studies During and After the Cold War - Bruce Cumings A Disaster in the Making: Rational Choice and Asian Studies - Chalmers Johnson and E.B. Keehn State, Social Forces, and Regions in Historical Time: Toward A Critical Political Economy of Eastern Asia - Mitchell Bernard Exceptionalism or Universalism? The Asianisation of Asia - Yoichi Funabashi Getting Asia Wrong: The Need For New Analytical Frameworks - David C. Kang How Ideas Spread: Whose Norms Matter? Norm Localization and Institutional Change in Asian R...
