CONTENTS -- About the Author -- Introduction -- 1. Fallacious Arguments Against Comparison -- 1.1. Better arguments in favor of comparing -- 2. Book Outline -- 2.1. Part I -- 2.2. Part II -- 2.3. Part III -- Part I: Introduction - The Destruction of Historical States -- Chapter 1: History and Geography Matter - But for What Kind of Legacies? -- 1.1. Lack of Territorial Continuity and Borders: Lack of Sovereign States -- 1.2. Territorial Imbalances: Inter- and Intra-regional Disparities -- 1.2.1. Disparities between member states and within both regions -- 1.2.2. Capital cities versus surrounding regions -- 1.2.3. Poverty -- 1.3. Social Structures: Intermediaries and Minorities -- 1.3.1. Active minorities -- 1.3.2. Roms: The combination of territorialization, poverty and political extremism -- 1.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Defining a State in Transition -- 2.1. Bureaucracies and Political Economies -- 2.2. Economic Dependency -- 2.3. Regionalism and Regionalization -- 2.4. Conclusion -- Part I: Conclusion - Clusters of Modernized States in Southeast Asia and CEE -- 1. Southeast Asia -- 2. Central and Eastern Europe -- Part II: Introduction - Coherence of the Public Policies: Privatization, Regionalization, Industrial Relations -- Introduction -- Chapter 3: Transforming Economies: From Planned Economies to More Legal Rules or Towards Nomenklatura Capitalism? -- 3.1. The Theoretical Framework -- 3.1.1. Political and economic dimensions of corruption -- 3.1.2. Infant, father, client and boss: Patronage and neo-patrimonalism -- 3.2. The European Transition Period -- 3.2.1. "Red privatization" -- 3.2.2. Domestic transformation in CEE: Privatization policy -- 3.2.3. The role of the EU in extending corruption -- 3.3. Southeast Asian Political Economies, Liberalized Economies and Open Regionalism -- 3.3.1. A theory of change.

3.3.2. "Nomenklatura capitalism" -- 3.3.3. Singapore, the exceptional case: Rule by law and nomenklatura capitalism -- 3.4. Comparing CEE with Southeast Asia: From the Corruption to the Rule -- 3.4.1. Rule of law, rule by law -- 3.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Transforming Polities: States, Regions and Administrations -- 4.1. Regionalization from a Comparative Perspective: Conditions for Reform and a Comparison of CEE and Southeast Asia -- 4.1.1. Varieties of EU regionalization -- 4.1.2. Southeast Asia -- 4.2. Cultural, Political and Economic Regionalism: Further Comparison of EU and Asian Peculiarities -- 4.2.1. The minorities: A delicate balance -- 4.2.2. The "administrative reform": The Asian and Balkan examples -- 4.2.3. Cambodia -- 4.2.4. The "decentralization reform": A rare EU reform -- 4.2.5. Poland -- 4.3. Conclusion: Comparing Both Areas -- Chapter 5: Managing Firms by Flexibility: The Lack of Industrial Relations -- 5.1. Globalization and Flexibility -- 5.1.1. Management through flexibility -- 5.1.2. Gender issues -- 5.2. International Rules and Legal Obstacles -- 5.3. Conclusion: Comparing Both Areas -- Part II: Conclusion -- PART III: Introduction - EU and ASEAN Enlarged and Globalized Regions -- Chapter 6: The EU and ASEAN: Cohesion Policy and Export-Oriented Agreements -- 6.1. The EU Cohesion Policy -- 6.1.1. A vision of development: Efficiency and equity -- 6.1.2. A hard public debate -- 6.1.3. Strategy, objectives and tools of development -- 6.2. ASEAN: Cooperation, No Binding Rules and Step-by-Step Construction -- 6.2.1. ASEAN: A loose regional ensemble -- 6.2.2. Political changes and world-wide economic evolution -- 6.2.3. World-wide evolution and progressive construction: Economic exchanges and arenas -- 6.2.4. Step-by-step regional integration? -- 6.3. Comparing Both Regional Areas.

6.3.1. Regional policy and pro-poor program: The initiative for Asian integration (IAI) -- 6.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 7: State, Sub-State Designs and Cross-Border Cooperation -- 7.1. EU Cross and Trans-Border Cooperation -- 7.1.1. The initial model: La Grande region -- 7.1.2. The Euro-region -- 7.2. Beyond Enlargement Policy: Stabilizing Unsecured Borders with the ENP -- 7.2.1. "No institutions" -- 7.3. The Macro-regions -- 7.3.1. "3 nos": No new institutions, no new rules, no new funds -- 7.4. Obstacles and Limits Provisional Conclusion -- 7.5. Southeast Asia, from Coastal Regions to the Interior -- 7.5.1. Growth poles and special economic zones -- 7.5.2. The case of SIJORI, IMSGT: Reinforcement of the central states -- 7.5.3. History and geography matter -- 7.5.4. Asymmetric exchanges and reciprocal dependency -- 7.5.5. The case of GMS: States and a non-state actor -- 7.5.6. The 3 "Cs" -- 7.5.7. The special economic zones -- 7.6. Developing Dependencies -- 7.7. Comparison Between European and Southeastern Asian Schemes -- 7.7.1. Strategies -- 7.7.2. State aids and regional policies -- 7.7.3. Obstacles -- 7.7.4. Core and periphery: The "grey zones" at the local borders -- 7.8. Conclusion -- Chapter 8: EU and ASEAN Enlargement: Enlarged Globalization Dynamics -- 8.1. Political Reasons for Enlargement -- 8.2. Beyond Economic Challenges -- 8.3. Political Challenges: Large Versus Small States -- 8.4. Lack of Hegemony -- 8.5. The End of a Dynamic? -- 8.5.1. The limits of western deepening -- 8.5.2. Agricultural policy -- 8.6. Comparing CEE and Southeast Asia -- 8.6.1. Beyond enlargement -- 8.7. Conclusion -- Part III: Conclusion -- General Conclusions: Types of Capitalism in Central Europe and in Southeast Asia -- 1. The Geopolitics of Capitalism -- 2. Hybrid Types of Capitalism -- 3. Political Capitalism: Clans, Families, Networks.

4. Liberal Capitalism: Protectionism, Controlled Openness and Social Consensus -- Bibliography -- Index.