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Title: The Rise of East Asia: Critical Visions of the Pacific Century by Mark T. Berger, Douglas A. Borer ISBN: 0-415-16168-1 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.95

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Summary: The only book to question Asia's "rise" before 1997
Comment: Mark Berger and Douglas Borer have produced an edited volume which merits significant praise in the scholarly community. The central theme of the text is that most Western "visions" of Asia are highly contestable. Both the editors and the contributing authors believe that mainstream perceptions and discourses regarding future political stablity and economic prosperity (and the concurrent rise to global power) of East Asia are too simplistic and overly optomistic - ignoring the vast diversity, the potential for domestic unrest, and the possiblity for conflict amongst countries within the Asia region.

Most notably, it is the only such book to question the so-called "Pacific Century" published before the traumatic economic crisis that infected the region in 1997. Although some chapters are less powerful than others, for the greater part the editors and authors have succeeded where the overwhelming majority of social scientists fail: their attempt at future gazing has proven to be be largely correct - a success last seen by Paul Kennedy's now-classic work "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" (1987). This is a book definately worth buying.