Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan and Peter Herrmann

Part 1: The 2008 Economic Crisis – Economic Context And Cultural Setting

Chapter 1. Globalization Revisited
(Peter Herrmann)

Chapter 2. Economic Crises, Neo-Classical Theory and Paradigmatic Change
(Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan)

Chapter 3. The Global Crisis – A Christian Perspective
(Gerry O’Hanlon)

Part 2: Responses to The Crisis By Asian Governments and Other Actors

Chapter 4. China’s Outward Investment: Crisis, Opportunities and Challenges
(Duncan Freeman)

Chapter 5. Cyberpolitics in China
(Bi Yantao, Jinan)

Chapter 6. Adaptive Stress: China and the Global Economic Crisis
(Jörn-Carsten Gottwald and Niall Duggan)

Chapter 7. The Crisis and South Korea
(Orlaith Bothwick)

Chapter 8. Business Groups in the Global Recession: the Case of the Japanese Keiretsu
(Tomoko Oikawa)

Chapter 9. Assessing the Impact of ‘the Crisis’ on Sino-Irish Flows
(Louis Brennan and Nicholas McIlroy)

Chapter 10. How Asia Acted with the Rest of the World in Dealing with the Crisis – A Global Inter-Regional Perspective
(Paul Gillespie)

Index