Introduction -- Orientalization in globalization: a sociology of the promiscuous architecture of globalization, c.500-2010 -- Global rebalancing: crisis and the East-South turn -- Profit, people, planet, and global rebalancing: the environmental implications of development in Japan, South Korea, China, and India -- The West and East Asian national identities: a comparison of the discourses of Korean Seonjinguk, Japanese Nihonjinron, and Chinese new nationalism -- East Asian community as hybridization: a quest for East Asianism -- Japan, globalization, and East Asian dynamism -- China's new development stage -- Global specialization and the China-U.S. economic imbalance -- Whither democracy? South Korea under globalization revisited -- Democratic deepening in South Korea and South Africa in an age of global rebalancing: the potential role of civil society in the era internet

1. Globalization -- Spcial aspects -- East Asia
2. Globalization -- Economic aspects -- East Asia
3. Economic development -- East Asia
4. East Asia -- Economic policy