East Asia enjoyed a role as a growth center of the world economy from the 1960s until the currency and economic crisis of 1997. In 1993, the World Bank issued a

Despite the diversity in income levels, languages, culture, resource endowments, and political systems, the countries of East Asia are more integrated now than

Every international negotiation bears a risk of collapse, as even among like-minded countries, different players often have different priorities and interests.

This book aims to shed light on the potentially innovative ICT (information and communication technology) architectures from an East Asian regional perspective.

Recent events in the global financial markets and macro economies have served as a strong reminder for a need of a coherent theory of capitalist crisis and anal