This unique book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in those parts of the world which are now regularly referred to as 'emerging regions'.

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.

'The book fills an important niche, providing students with a rich and detailed account of the challenges faced by emerging
economies in terms of economic development and democratisation in a global economy that is increasingly dominated by the
world's core countries. The authors show how economics, politics, culture and historical legacies are interacting to establish a variety
of pathways to development - demonstrating that globalization is not imposing uniformity on the world but, rather, making for an
increasingly complex and differentiated world. Geography matters.'
Paul Knox, author of Geography of the World Econom