A Region of Regimes – Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia–Pacific Pempel Hardback

A Region of RegimesProsperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific\nAuthor(s): T. J. Pempel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501758799, 978-1501758799\nSynopsis\nA Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economicspower and prosperityin the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the \""Asian economic miracle\"" to show radically different paths leading to high growth for many but abject failure for some. T. J. Pempel analyzes policies and data from ten East Asian countries, categorizing them into three distinct regime types, each historically contingent and the product of specific configurations of domestic institutions, socio-economic resources, and external support. \n\n Pempel identifies Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as developmental regimes, showing how each then diverged due to domestic and international forc.