Most books that analyse the crucial subject of globalisation only look at it from a western perspective. This is the first detailed study to look at globalisation specifically in the Asia-Pacific region. An impressive collection of leading, interdisciplinary scholars explore various dimensions of globalisation and their relationship to development processes in the region.

Acknowledgements. Questions in a crisis: The contested meanings of globalisation in the Asia Pacific. Phillip Kelly and Kris Olds . Global Discourses. Reflections on golobalisation and its (il)logic(s). Bob Jessop . Globalism and the politics of place. Arif Dirlik . The globaisation of the system of business knowledge. Nigel Thrift . Resisting Globalisation: Environmental politics in Eastern Asia. James H. Mittelman . Regional reformations. The political economy of globalisation in East Asia: The Salience of 'Region Building'. Richard Higgott . INvesting in the future: East and Southeast Asian firms in the global economy. Peter Dicken and Henry Wai-chung Yeung . Rethinking globaisation: Re-articulating the spatial scales and temporal horizons of trans-border spaces. Ngai-Ling Sum . Reterritorializing the state. Servicing the global economy: reconfigures states and private agents. Saskia Sassen . Globalisation and the limits to national economic management. Cayetano Paderanga Jr . Global Lives. Class formation, hybridity and ethnification in declining global hegemonies. Jonathan Friedman . Citizens in Transnational nation-states: The Asian experience. Nina Glick Schiller . Globalisation, transmigration nd the renegotiation of ethnic identity. Lily Kong . Globalisation, Postcolonialism and new represenations of the pacific Asia Metropolis. Dean Forbes . References. Index.