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North Korea, Myanmar, and the Philippines (under Marcos) comprise \"rapacious regimes\" in this analysis, while Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand form \"ersatz developmental regimes.\" Uniquely, China emerges as an evolving hybrid of all three regime types. A Region of Regimes concludes by showing how the shifting interactions of these regimes have profoundly shaped the Asia-Pacific region and the globe across the postwar era.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738412458257,"sku":"NGR9781501758805","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50379721539857,"sku":"CIN1501758802G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1501758802.jpg?v=1758967542"},{"product_id":"regime-shift-book-t-j-pempel-9780801485299","title":"Regime Shift","description":"The Liberal Democratic Party, which dominated postwar Japan, lost power in the early 1990s. During that same period, Japan's once stellar economy suffered stagnation and collapse. Now a well-known commentator on contemporary Japan traces the political dynamics of the country to determine the reasons for these changes and the extent to which its political and economic systems have been permanently altered.T. J. Pempel contrasts the political economy of Japan during two decades: the 1960s, when the nation experienced conservative political dominance and high growth, and the early 1990s, when the \"bubble economy\" collapsed and electoral politics changed. The different dynamics of the two periods indicate a regime shift in which the present political economy deviates profoundly from earlier forms. This shift has involved a transformation in socioeconomic alliances, political and economic institutions, and public policy profile, rendering Japanese politics far less predictable than in the past. Pempel weighs the Japanese case against comparative data from the United States, Great Britain, Sweden, and Italy to show how unusual Japan's political economy had been in the 1960s. Regime Shift suggests that Japan's present troubles are deeply rooted in the economy's earlier success. It is a much-anticipated work that offers an original framework for understanding the critical changes that have affected political and economic institutions in Japan.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50255122333969,"sku":"CIN0801485290G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51323399078161,"sku":"CIN0801485290VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53117157441809,"sku":"GOR007896328","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801485290.jpg?v=1758967127"},{"product_id":"remapping-east-asia-book-t-j-pempel-9780801489099","title":"Remapping East Asia","description":"An overarching ambiguity characterizes East Asia today. The region has at least a century-long history of internal divisiveness, war, and conflict, and it remains the site of several nettlesome territorial disputes. However, a mixture of complex and often competing agents and processes has been knitting together various segments of East Asia. In Remapping East Asia, T. J. Pempel suggests that the region is ripe for cooperation rather than rivalry and that recent \"region-building\" developments in East Asia have had a substantial cumulative effect on the broader canvas of international politics. This collection is about the people, processes, and institutions behind that region-building. In it, experts on the area take a broad approach to the dynamics and implications of regionalism. Instead of limiting their focus to security matters, they extend their discussions to topics as diverse as the mercurial nature of Japan's leadership role in the region, Southeast Asian business networks, the war on terrorism in Asia, and the political economy of environmental regionalism. Throughout, they show how nation-states, corporations, and problem-specific coalitions have furthered regional cohesion not only by establishing formal institutions, but also by operating informally, semiformally, or even secretly.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51334395855121,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51334397985041,"sku":"CIN0801489091G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801489091.jpg?v=1758967458"},{"product_id":"two-crises-different-outcomes-book-t-j-pempel-9780801479717","title":"Two Crises, Different Outcomes","description":"This volume examines East Asian policy reactions to the global financial crisis of 2008-9 and the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52091838202129,"sku":"CIN0801479711G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780801479717.jpg?v=1758966935"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-t-j-pempel.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}