Our contemporary world of regions does not float freely it is embedded in the american imperium when us governments see vital security and economic interests at stake the united states supports the creation of regional powers as it did in germany and japan but not in any other world region regions can be peaceful and rich or war prone and poor they can grow as europe did with the enlargement of the european union after the cold war or they can shrink as apec did in asia pacific . A world of regions asia and europe in the american imperium cornell studies in political economy amazonde katzenstein peter j fremdsprachige bucher. A world of regions asia and europe in the american imperium katzenstein peter book written by 1996 abe fellow peter katzenstein based on his project globalism and regionalism japan and asia germany and europe observing the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the cold war peter j katzenstein argues that regions have become . A world of regions asia and europe in the american imperium by peter j katzenstein ithaca and london cornell university press 2005 xiv 297 pp 2295 paperback isbn 0 8014 7275 x kenji hirashima kenji hirashima university of tokyo search for other works by this author on oxford academic google scholar social science japan journal volume 9 issue 2 october 2006 pages 329 331