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Asia and Europe in globalization : continents, regions and nations / edited by Goran Therborn, Habibul Haque Khondker.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Social sciences in Asia ; v. 8.
- Social sciences in Asia, 1567-2794 ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization--Asia.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Europe.
- East and West.
- Asia--Social conditions--21st century.
- Asia.
- Asia--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Asia--Social policy.
- Asia--Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 313 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This interdisciplinary book by a group of Asian and European scholars provides a deeper understanding of globalization as an historical process with special attention to the regional and national contexts. Globalization, this book demonstrates, has its roots in civilizational dialogues and interchanges.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Noted of Authors
- Foreword: Surface Tensions and Deep Structures
- Introduction: Asia and Europe in the Contemporary World
- Empires and their Legacy
- Asian Nations and Globalization
- Religions and Other World Values
- Continents and Regions
- References
- Empires
- The First Globalization Episode: The Creation of the Mongol Empire, or the Economics of Chinggis Khan
- The Unification of the Mongols: The Installation of a "Stationary Bandit
- Law and Order in the Steppe
- The Designation of Chiefs
- One of Those Singular Figures of History
- The Mongol Conquests
- The War Machine
- Apogee and Fall of the Mongol Empire
- Mixed Legal Systems and Coloniality: Parts of the Constructs of a Global Legal Culture
- Legal Systems in Global Legal Cultures
- Legal Mapping
- New Concepts of Legal Culture
- Coloniality-Enduring Colonialism
- The Modern Concept of Mixed Legal Systems
- The Post-/ Late-modern Concept of Mixed Legal Systems
- Historical Layers as Deep Structures of Legal Culture
- Legal Pluralism and Legal Culture
- Constitutional Supremacy in the Legal Culture
- Southern Cross-Reception into a Mixed Legal Culture
- The Great Wall-Protecting an Insular Legal Culture
- Conclusions
- The National, the Religious, and the Global in the Construction of National Identity in Bangladesh
- Introduction
- Definitions of Nationalism
- Nationalism in a Globalized World
- Islam and Secularism in Bangladesh
- The Reconstruction of Nationalism in Bangladesh: Reactions to Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen
- From the Discourse of "Sino-West" to "Globalization: Chinese Perspectives on Globalization
- Globalization and National Development: The Perspective of the Chinese Revolution.
- National Development and Social Revolution in Early Chinese Marxist Thought
- The Two Cultural Revolutions
- The Network Society
- Public Responsibility in an Age of Globalization
- Political Selectivity and Cultural Response in the Process of Modernization and Globalization: North and South Korea Compared
- Prologue
- Modernization of the Two Koreas
- Epilogue
- From Developmental Liberalism to Neoliberalism: Globalization, Dependent Reflexivity and Social Policy in South Korea
- Catching-up Politics, Crisis Politics, and Dependent Reflexivity
- From Developmental Liberalism to Neo-Liberalism: Backward Reforms in Social Policy
- The Cause as Remedy? The 1997 Crisis and Neo-Liberal Responses
- Democracy, Globalization, and Reflexive Development
- Conclusion and Prospects
- Vietnamese Women in Transition and Globalization
- Vietnamese Government Policy Relating to Women's Issues
- Women in Vietnam's Economic Renewal Process
- Some Comments
- Religions and other World Values
- From Theology to Anthropology of Religions: How to Analyse the Role of Religious Tradition in a Globalized World?
- What Model Then?
- Religious Diversity and Human Rights: Clashes and Convergences in Asian-European Dialogues
- Emergence of Secular Human Rights in Europe and America
- Clashes and Tensions
- Male-female hierarchy
- Politics of Semantics
- Convergence
- Towards the Future
- Human Rights and Postmodern Critiques
- Continents and Regions of the World
- Europe and Asias: In the Global Political Economy, and in the World as a Cultural System
- The World as a Cultural System
- One Europe, Several Asias
- The World Cultural System: Some Provisional Indications
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-40043-2
- 9786611400439
- 90-474-1081-5
- OCLC:
- 923613814
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