The Geography of Emerging Regions provides an in‎-depth and stimulating introduction to the histories and contemporary development problems of the non‎-core countries of the world economy‎.‎ Dramatic shifts in economic policy and the nature of political institutions have occurred in these countries over the past decade‎,‎ much more substantial than those experienced within advanced economies‎.‎ Here‎,‎ the authors assess the impact of these shifts at different scales of analysis‎,‎ from the supranational to the local‎.‎ Drawing on the experience of Eastern Europe‎,‎ the former Soviet Union‎,‎ Latin America and East Asia in particular‎,‎ the authors seek to illuminate the many contradictions in contemporary discourse on the so‎-called ‎'‎emerging regions‎'‎‎,‎ and look forward to the future and the type of world that might develop away from the core advanced economies‎.‎