The tragic events of Father's Day 2005 unfold as Robert Farquharson drives his three young sons to their mother's house. In a devastating turn, his car veers off the road and plunges into a dam, resulting in the drowning of ten-year-old Jai, seven-year-old Tyler, and two-year-old Bailey. While Farquharson survives, the incident raises profound questions about grief, responsibility, and the impact of loss on a family.
Asia-Pacific in the New World Order critically explores the notion that a distinctive regional power bloc is developing linking countries bordering the Pacific, with East Asia at its core. This student-friendly volume sheds light on the complex interplay between global, regional and national forces which have transformed the Asia-Pacific area into one of the most vibrant and economically successful regions in the world. Historical narratives alongside geopolitical and geoeconomic perspectives are deployed to examine the shifting pattern of power relations and security structures across the region, set within a wider world context. Key issues addressed include: * what are the primary security problems of the region and how are they being resolved? * does the dynamic growth of the region, and particularly the rise of China, pose a challenge to existing structures of world order? The text has a strong interdisciplinary flavour drawing on analytical approaches from the international relations, political economy and political geography literature. Authors have been drawn from the Asia-Pacific region and the UK and all are established scholars in their specialist fields.
A Global World? focuses on the complex interplay between existing and emerging political structures. It relates changes in the world's political landscape to economic and cultural changes, and assesses the possibilities for genuinely global politics. Individual chapters discuss the problems ofuneven development associated with the creation of "global regions" like the North American Free Trade Zone and the European Union, the pressures imposed on the state by supra-state developments and sub-state regional movements, variations in the world of Islam and their global significance; thescope for transnational politics and social movements as exemplified by environmentalism, and the global tensions caused by uneven development and uneven responses.