This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in the "emerging regions" of Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia by looking at development trajectories and the pathways of both economic and political change. This is a unique approach in terms of books published in both geography and the social sciences.

About the Author
Robert Gwynne is Reader in Latin American Studies at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK Thomas Klak is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Miami Univeristy - Oxford, Ohio, USA Denis Shaw is Reader in Russian Geography at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK