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East Asia has re-emerged after a long eclipse as a centre of world wealth creation and growth. Over the past four decades the region?s share of world GDP has risen from less than 10 to 30 percent, a ratio that is set to rise to 40 percent by 2030.What has made East Asia?s remarkable ascent possible, and what does this economic rebalancing between East and West mean for world politics? In this insightful and provocative book, Philip Golub addresses these questions, tracing the region?s rise from the early modern European-Asian encounter to the imperial confrontations of the nineteenth century, and China?s state capitalist turn in the latter half of the twentieth century. Together, he argues, the dynamics of imperialism, war and revolution led to the constitution of developmental states that made possible East Asia?s return to a central position in the global economy.Combining rich historical narrative and social theory, this book is an invaluable guide to one of the core issues in world politics today. Philip Golubis Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Paris

The economic growth in East Asia has been believed to be the model case of the triumph of capitalism. Some progressive economists, for example, the developmental state theorists, also praised the East Asian model as the progressive alternative to neoliberal market fundamentalism, arguing that they are the outcomes of state-led development. However, with the sudden advent of the 'Lost Decade of Japan' in the 1990s, and the ensuing 'IMF Crisis' of South Korea in 1997, and now the imminent 'hard landing' of the Chinese economy, the East Asian miracle story is quickly becoming a thing of the past. East Asia has now become an epicentre of the contradictions and crisis of global capitalism. Today, deepening economic crises, exacerbation of social polarization, rising popular discontents, and escalating geopolitical tensions are common to China, Japan and Korea. Moreover, East Asia has been at the centre of global ecological contradictions. Indeed, East Asia has now become the typical place of Marxian macro-dynamics. This important and timely volume brings together experts in political economy from across the globe, to comment on the return of Marxian macro-dynamics in East Asia. The contributions explore macro-dynamics, the role of the state and hegemony in the context of transnational capitalism, and Marxian alternatives for East Asia.

The article engages with the literature on the "East Asian welfare model" by using Esping-Andersen's "worlds of welfare capitalism" approach to analyze social policy in the region. It describes the main features of a productivist world of welfare capitalism that stands alongside Esping-Andersen's conservative, liberal, & social democratic worlds. It then shows that Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, & Taiwan are all part of this world, though they divide into subgroups within it. To account for productivist welfare capitalism in East Asia, the article focuses particularly on bureaucratic politics at the unit level & on a range of key shaping factors at the system level. It closes by considering the implications of East Asian experience for comparative social policy analysis. 2 Tables, 39 References. Adapted from the source document.

The article engages with the literature on the 'East Asian welfare model' by using Esping-Andersen's 'worlds of welfare capitalism' approach to analyze social policy in the region. It describes the main features of a productivist world of welfare capitalism that stands alongside Esping-Andersen's conservative, liberal and social democratic worlds. It then shows that Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are all part of this world, though they divide into sub-groups within it. To account for productivist welfare capitalism in East Asia, the article focuses particularly on bureaucratic politics at the unit level, and on a range of key shaping factors at the system level. It closes by considering the implications of East Asian experience for comparative social policy analysis.

The author argues that the liberal model of legalism that underpins Max Weber's classical account of the emergence of formal rational law in Western capitalism is indequate to explain the complex causal relationship that exists between law and non-conventional forms of capitalism that have arisen in the East Asian context. He examines the relationship between the emergence of the rule of law and the growth of capitalism in East Asia with special reference to authoritarian legalism in East Asia, its distinctive character, legalism as a technique of rule among other themes. (DÜI-Sen)

Over the past few decades, East Asia developments in terms of production, population and trade have shown remarkable dynamics. Ensuing changes in these regions of non-Western civilization are commonly interpreted in terms of a successful adaptation of modernity. However, experiences such as the regional crisis in 1997 and the tragic incident of September 2001 more than ever ask for more intensive civilizational dialogues, and urge us to carefully consider the implications of capitalist development in the East Asian context(s). This book deals with the issues of Asian values, civilizational encounters between East and West, and the development of capitalism and its culture in East Asian countries. Its focus on inter-civilizational exchanges and the intricate interplays between civilizational and capitalist dynamics helps us to better understand our human story and history.