Rise of Asia and the transformation of the world-system

Includes bibliographical references.

East Asian regional dynamics in the twenty-first century world system / Ganesh K. Trichur -- The politics of geopolitics : the case of Northeast Asia / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Asia, Eurasia, Eurasianism : the role of Russia in the transition from U.S. hegemony / Boris Stremlin -- China in three geographical contexts / Steven Sherman -- The roles of central Asian middlemen and marcher states in Afro-Eurasian world-system synchrony / Thomas D. Hall, Christopher Chase-Dunn, and Richard Niemeyer -- Dictatorship and development in China : their impact on the workers of the world / Robert K. Schaeffer -- China, Asia, and labor standards after the 2005 multi-fiber arrangement / Robert J.S. Ross -- Aquaculture commodity chains and threats to food security and survival of Asian fishing households / Wilma A. Dunaway and M. Cecilia Macabuac -- Utopystics and the Asiatic modes of liberation : Gurdjieffian contributions to the sociological imaginations of inner and global wold-systems / Mohammad H. Tamdgidi.