1. Scholte, Jan Aart. 2000. Globalization: A critical introduction. New York: Macmillan Press. An excellent introduction to the entire range of issues canvassed by the literature on globalisation. Contains an extensive bibliography
2. Sklair, Leslie. 1995. Sociology of the Global System. London: Prentice Hall. A very useful analysis of the sociological and cultural dimensions of globalisation that includes many examples drawn from East and Southeast Asia
3. Coleman, William D. and Geoffrey R. D. Underhill (eds). 1998. Regionalism and Global Economic Integration: Europe, Asia and the Americas. London: Routledge. Contains useful chapters on the political economy of globalisation, with particular reference to the tendency to regionalism in the global economy
4. Dirlik, Arif. 1999. ‘Formations of globality and radical politics’. The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies. Vol. 21, No. 4, 301–38. An excellent analysis and critique of the literature on globalisation
5. Yamamura, Kozo. 1982. ‘Success that soured: Administrative guidance and cartels in Japan’ in Policy and Trade Issues of the Japanese Economy: American and Japanese perspectives. Edited by Kozo Yamamura. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. pp. 77–112