The share of emerging Asia in world trade has increased sharply over the past 25 years. A large part of this increase is the result of booming intraregional tra

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphe

This book is an important contribution to the policy debate on the future of regional integration around the world, and in Asia in particular. The complex linka

This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countri