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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964777903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006
• ISBN: 1-281-40043-2; 9786611400439; 90-474-1081-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 313 p. : ill
• Collana: Social sciences in Asia, , 1567-2794 ; ; v. 8
• Altri autori (Persone): TherbornGöran <1941->; KhondkerHabibul Haque
• Disciplina: 303.48/250409
• Soggetti: Globalization - Asia; Globalization - Europe; East and West; Asia Social conditions 21st century; Asia Economic conditions 21st century; Asia Social policy; Asia Economic policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.