Pt. I. The Shift to the Modern World. 1. Classical Social Theory -- Pt. II. The Shift to the Modern World in Pacific Asia. 2. Analysing the Process of the Shift to the Modern World in Pacific Asia. 3. From Ancient Empires to Nineteenth-century Industrial-capitalism. 4. The Shift to the Modern World: Reactions, Resistance and Empire. 5. After the Pacific War: Decolonization, Nation-building and the Cold War. 6. The Emergence of Pacific Asia -- Pt. III. Changing Relationships in Contemporary Pacific Asia. 7. The Region and the Global System. 8. Changing Patterns of Relations between Japan, the USA and China. 9. Contemporary Pacific Asia in the 1990s -- Pt. IV. The Development Experience of Pacific Asia. 10. The Particularity of the Historical Development Experience of Pacific Asia. 11. The Pacific Asian Model I: Political-economic and Social-Institutional Processes. 12. The Pacific Asian Model II: Cultural and Political-cultural Processes
Pt. V. Pacific Asia in the New Global System. 13. Pacific Asia in the Twenty-first Century Global System
