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The Emergent Global and Asian Regional Order: Complementarity and Divergence

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Twenty-First Century World Order and the Asia Pacific

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Abstract

Contrary to a general assumption that international relations (IR) scholars are concerned solely with explanation but not prediction, there is no lack of scholarly attempts to divine world order in the coming millennium. For example, in a special issue of the International Studies Review, Davis B. Bobrow (who is also a contributor to the present book) lined up an international group of IR scholars to offer their “conjectures” about the next millennium (Bobrow-ISR 1999). They did so from a wide range of perspectives including: realpolitik, economic systems, new social technology, identity change, and the like.1 But our book is of a different sort, in at least two distinct ways.

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Hsiung, J.C. (2001). The Emergent Global and Asian Regional Order: Complementarity and Divergence. In: Twenty-First Century World Order and the Asia Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107175_13

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