Introduction: National sovereignty: Economic Markets and Legal Systems
The Objects of Comparison
1. What is an 'Under-Developed' State in Historical Terms?
Groups of Countries in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia
The Historical Consequences of Underdevelopment
2. Political Capitalism and Market Economies
Are the Different Systems of Legal Rule Complementary or Incompatible?
Personal Rule, Rule by Law, and Rule of Law
Two Categories of Capitalism: Political versus Market
Conclusion
3. Patterns of Development in Southeast Asia
The Transformation of the Japanese Evolutionist Model
The Developmental State
The Developmental Regionalism
The Under-Developed Status of Mekong Delta Countries
The Geopolitics of Foreign Investment
Conclusion
4. State Liberalism and Market Socialism: A Comparison between Singapore and Vietnam
Nomenklatura Capitalism
Singapore
Vietnam
Conclusion
5. Cambodia: Political Capitalism and the Prebendal State
The 'Hun Sen System' - The Power of Prebends
Special Economic Zones
Conclusion: The End of Developmentalism
6. The Improbable German Model: Lessons from German Social and Economic Reunification
The Violence of Money: Full Conversion to the Deutschmark, July 1, 1990
The Impossible Transfer
East German Dependency
Conclusion
7. Industrial Companies and Territories: The Reform Process in Central and Eastern Europe
A Non-political Vision of Economic Policy
Weak Collective Action
Industrial Policy
Conclusion
8. Growing Capitalism: The Waves of Expansion in the EU and ASEAN
Why Did the EU and ASEAN Expand?
Deepening Divides
The EU and Central and Eastern European countries: Top-down Deregulatory Pressures
Strengthening the Political Personality of 'Smaller' States: The Limitations of Hegemony.
Conclusion: Hybrid Forms of Dependent Capitalism
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