Thanks to the inroads of IMFism and the "war on terror," America has lost much of the soft power it enjoyed in Asia during the early 1990s. The winners, by default, are some of the world's most undemocratic development models, such as Sino-globalism. "Asian values" took a hard blow from the Asian Crash, but have returned in this even more virulent form. The West is left sitting on the sidelines of a distinctly Asian contest of development with or without freedom. Development Without Freedom explores this crucial trial-by-development, which will define the politics of globalization for decades to come.

Songok Han Thornton is a Research Assistant Professor of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan. Professor William H. Thornton is Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan.

Contents: Introduction: Senism and the invisible Asia; Globalization on trial: rethinking Asian exceptionalism vis-à-vis the 3rd World; Korean social democratization: a good idea while it lasted; Booty globalism: the neocolonization of the Philippines; Lesson of the 'broken hearts': the rise and fall of Indonesian reformasi; Another Thailand was possible: Thaksin and the Thai response to globalization; Sino-globalization - part I: politics of the CCP/TNC symbiosis; Sino-globalization - part II: selling Chinese maldevelopment; The price of alignment: India in the new Asian drama; The Japanese model goes global: a new reverse course; After the new world order: the rise of 2nd way globalization; Conclusion: the crisis of Asian globalization: toward a Senism of the left; Index.