"Christopher Brook 11.1 AsiaPacific integrationinawider setting That the
AsiaPacific region has become a key arena for economic and diplomatic activity
is not in doubt; what is less clearandmoredebated isthe evolving character and
geography ..."
"(re)action. is. This chapter has presented two views of Asia-Pacific
transnationalism. The first view holds that a tripartite policy network composed of
academics, corporate executives and unofficial government officials has been
driving a regional co-operation movement begun in the 1960s. This perspective,
in which the nongovernmental organizations involved and their
intergovernmental offspring continue to concern themselves prima ..."
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Graham Smith, Momoh Banya, Derek ... Second, at least in liberal-democratic
states, these transformations can be related not only to economic concerns but
also to concerns of immigrant integration that find ... at the most abstract level, a
distinction between accounts based on justice and on 'good-of-citizenship' as
developed ..."
"In un'epoca di profondi cambiamenti, che non trovano facili spiegazioni nelle ideologie tradizionali e nelle teorie generali, si ricorre all'idea di globalizzazione per affrontare le questioni più disparate. Come orientarsi in un dibattito spesso confuso e frastornante? Ci aiuta questo libro, che traccia anzitutto la storia del concetto; delinea poi le diverse posizioni in campo, riconducibili alle opzioni "globalista" e "scettica"; mos ..."