Asia and Europe in globalization : : continents, regions and nations / / edited by Goran Therborn, Habibul Haque Khondker.

• Superior document: Social sciences in Asia, v. 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Therborn, Goran, 1941-; Khondker, Habibul Haque.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social sciences in Asia ; v. 8.
• Physical Description: xiv, 313 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Table of 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 -- References -- 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 -- Asian Nations and Globalization -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- Political Selectivity and Cultural Response in the Process of Modernization and Globalization: North and South Korea Compared -- Prologue -- Modernization of the Two Koreas -- Epilogue -- References -- From Developmental Liberalism to Neoliberalism: Globalization, Dependent Reflexivity and Social Policy in South Korea -- Introduction -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- Index.