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Globalization and democratization in Asia : the construction of identity / edited by Catarina Kinnvall and Kristina Jönsson. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2002. - ix, 276 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Analyzing the global-local nexus / Catarina Kinnvall -- Globalization and the twilight of Asian exceptionalism / Lowell Dittmer -- Globalization and democratic governance: the Indian experience / Aswini K. Ray -- On alien Western democracy / Edward Friedman -- Imported democracy: the South Korean experience / Geir Helgesen -- What sort of democracy: predatory and neo-liberal agendas in Indonesia / Richard Robison -- Globalization, authoritarian regimes and political change: Vietnam and Laos / Kristina Jönsson -- Social movements, civil society and democracy in Japan / Hugo Dobson -- Globalization, democratization and civil society in Southeast Asia: observations from Malaysia and Thailand / Anders Uhlin -- Democratic citizenship and minority rights: a view from India / Bishnu N. Mohapatra -- Globalization and democratic developments in Southeast Asia: articulation and social responses / Shamsul A.B.-- Global imaginings, the states quest for hegemony, and the pursuit of phantom freedom in China: from Heshang to Falun Gong / Vivienne Shue -- Appropriating the global within the local: identity formation among the Minahasa in contemporary Indonesia / Michael Jacobsen -- The global-local nexus revisited: constructing Asia in times of globalization / Catarina Kinnvall and Kristina Jönsson.

ISBN: 0415277302 (hdbk) 0415277310 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2002068321

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Democratization.
Civil society.
Ethnicity.
Globalization.

LC Class. No.: JC423 / .G593 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 306.2/095