Global Challenges in Asia: New Development Models and Regional Community Building (SNUAC Series in Asian Studies, 3)

Explore what it takes to build a regional community in Northeast Asia: this volume gathers the evidence.

Edited by Hyun-Chin Lim, this book grew out of an October 2011 Seoul conference where an interdisciplinary group of over fifty scholars examined cooperation among Korea, China, and Japan and the obstacles to forging a shared future in Asia.

What's inside:

• Unity in diversity: It argues for regional community built on acceptance of intraregional diversity and mutual trust.
• Rebalancing powers: It considers a complex rebalancing of the United States and China rather than a straight shift from West to East.
• Costs of growth: It weighs the environmental and cultural costs of massive industrial globalization in Asia.

Perfect for: political economists, Asian studies scholars, international relations students, policy researchers.

Published by Kong & Park.

Hyun-Chin Lim is Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University. He is the president of Korean Social Science Research Council, and serves as co-chair of Citizens Coalition for Economic Justice.

Wolf Schafer is Professor of History and Associate Dean of International Academic Programs at Stony Brook University. He pioneered global history as an alternative to world history.

Suk-Man Hwang is a Professor of Sociology at Changwon National University. His recent research interests include expansion of welfare state and labor-business relation in the context of the post-developmental state in Korea.