Overview

This timely volume examines various economic, managerial, social and political aspects of globalization and its impact on local economies. State-of-the-art analytical models and original empirical research is used to understand four key and interrelated facets of globalization;

• To understand the prospects and the problems of international business and MNCs in the global economy.
• To analyze globalization as a process of change.
• To understand the new roles of nation states in light of the above.
• To articulate the uneasy idea that globalization has resulted in serious imbalances in the global economy.

The collection hosts a list of internationally eminent scholars who explain the implications of globalization for progress, crises and conflicts in South and Southeast Asia.