Pushing back on globalization : an introduction to regulation in Asia / John Gillespie and Randall Peerenboom -- The role of state, non-state, and hybrid actors in localizing global scripts in East Asia / John Gillespie -- Pushing against globalization : toward an analytic template / Michael...

This chapter explores the central question: Is Vietnam transitioning out of socialism and/or transforming socialism? For decades, commentators have confidently predicted that Vietnam is transitioning out of socialism towards ‘market-Leninism’. This chapter argues that political, legal and...

Over the past three decades, Transnational Production Regimes (TPRs) have become the main source of technical and regulatory knowledge for Southeast Asia corporations. Typically TPRs transfer knowledge from lead firms located in the industrial North to supplier firms located in Southeast Asia....