Seeking Shelter on the Pacific Rim
Seeking Shelter on the Pacific Rim

Author: Gary Dymski

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1315499711

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This innovative book analyzes the changes that financial globalization is bringing about in the housing and home-finance markets of the United States, Japan, and South Korea, with special attention to the circumstances of women in obtaining housing, credit, and personal security. The book's focus on changes in the residential and housing finance markets serves as a window for an integrated examination of how the liberalization of national financial markets has affected the relationship among all players in each of the three economies - government, markets, and individual citizens. Through this examination Housing Finance Futures develops a new critical response to economic globalization based on a groundbreaking concept, the social efficiency of policy and market shifts.

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean

Author: George Vancouver.

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13:

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"A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round The World" is an account of the Vancouver Expedition of 1791–1795, was a four-and-a-half-year voyage of exploration and diplomacy commanded by Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy. The British expedition traveled around the globe and made contact with five continents. The expedition included between two and four vessels, and up to 153 men, all but 6 of whom returned home safely.

Maritime Security Complexes of the Indo-Pacific Region
Maritime Security Complexes of the Indo-Pacific Region

Author: Dr Vijay Sakhuja

Publisher: Indian Council of World Affairs and Centre for Public Policy Research

Published: 2023-03-06

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 8195518044

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This book seeks to provide a net assessment of regional challenges and opportunities in this study of the Indo-Pacific region’s security dynamics viewed through the ‘maritime variant’ of the Regional Security Complex Theory. The objective of this volume is to ascertain the regional security dynamics and assess securitization as a driving force. It infers the scope of traditional, non-traditional, and transnational security issues and their regional impact, with a specific focus on the maritime perspectives of regional security dynamics, and also envisages the potential interplay of these factors as they continue to influence and shape future discourse.