Buku ini memuat lima artikel yang ditulis dalam kurun waktu 1987-1998, mengenai berbagai faktor yang mempengaruhi dinamika ekonomi negara-negara di kawasan Asia Tenggara dan Timur yang pernah disanjung sebagai "keajaiban Asia" namun yang kemudian beramai-ramai terpuruk ke dalam krisis ekonomi.
One major purpose of this book is to account for the policies adopted by African governments. We assume throughout that politcal action is purposeful behavior, and that among the major purposes of governments are the pursuit of certain social objectives and the resources needed to achieve them.
Korea has indeed been transformed from a subsistent agricultural economy into a newly industrialized one during the past three decades.Few economies in the world have matched the phenomenal economic development of South Korea - hereinafter Korea - in terms of industrialzation and technological progress.
The aim of Third World Politics: A Concise Introduction is to present an analysis of politics in the contemporary Third World, with particular emphasison the post-Cold War 1990s.