Development Without Freedom: The Politics of Asian Globalization

Thanks to the inroads of IMFism and the ＂war on terror,＂ America has lost much of the soft power it enjoyed in Asia during the early 1990s. The winners, by default, are some of the world’s most undemocratic development models, such as Sino-globalism. ＂Asian values＂ took a hard blow from the Asian Crash, but have returned in this even more virulent form. The West is left sitting on the sidelines of a distinctly Asian contest of development with or without freedom. Development Without Freedom explores this crucial trial-by-development, which will define the politics of globalization for decades to come.

Songok Han Thornton is a Research Assistant Professor of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan. Professor William H. Thornton is Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan.