This multi-volume set focuses on a key region of the world which contains four of the biggest emerging economies, a large number of highly dynamic small- and medium-sized emerging economies, and one of the leading advanced industrial countries. It is a region which contains some of the biggest hydrocarbon and mineral deposits in the world, and some of the most energy- and metal-hungry economies in the world. With half the world's population, it is one of the most dynamic regions of the globe in terms of population movement, providing a key focus of foreign investment, both inwards and outwards, with a high degree of technological dynamism. The region plays a central role in the industrial supply networks of the globe.
In four volumes, focusing on, respectively, foreign investment, innovation, energy and migration, the set focuses on each of the main elements in the production system in turn — capital, innovation, raw materials and labour. Volume 1 studies patterns of interchange of financial and direct investment within the region, focusing on governance, the development of supply chains, and technology transfer. In Volume 2, the technology theme becomes dominant, with a special focus on digital technology. It includes technical issues like mobile communications standardisation, developmental dimensions, including the role of clusters and science parks, and political economy issues like the rise of techno-nationalism. Volume 3 turns to energy issues — not just issues of supply and demand, but also key problems of climate change, security and sustainability across the Eurasian and Asian landmass. Volume 4 presents the human dimension, looking at people in movement, as workers, citizens, men, women, or colonisers. Among the key issues discussed are the migration from country to town in China, the ‘greying’ of countries like Japan, the effect of war on migration, marriage migration, human trafficking and the depopulation of the Russian Far East.
The set is a must-have for anyone keen to understand the region whose manufacturing core can be described, without exaggeration, as the ‘workshop of the world’ of the twenty-first century.
Readership: Graduates, researchers and policymakers keen on understanding the economics and globalization of a region critical to the 21st century.
David Dyker is currently Honorary Professorial Fellow at SPRU — Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex. He was visiting professor at People's University, Beijing, in 1988, and at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto in 2001-2002.
Xiudian Dai is senior lecturer in the School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies at the University of Hull, where he is Director of postgraduate programme Global Communications and International Politics, having been educated at Nankai University for his first and Masters degrees in Philosophy and completed his PhD in Social Implications of Technical Change at the University of Sussex.
Paolo Davide Farah (PhD, LLM, JD) teaches sustainable development, international environmental and energy law at West Virginia University (WV, USA). Before moving to USA, he was Senior Lecturer in Law (Associate Professor) at Edge Hill University (UK) and, previously Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, East Asian Legal Studies Program.
Piercarlo Rossi(PhD, JD) teaches European Law and Asian Law at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy).
Anthony Fielding obtained his BA (1962) and PhD (1965) from London School of Economics. He currently works as Research Professor, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex.
He has written many research papers, journal articles and book chapters on migration in East Asia. He is co-author of People on the Move: An Atlas of Human Migration (University of California Press, 2010) and author of Migration in Britain: Paradoxes of the Present, Prospects for the Future (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012).
