Copyright (c) Pacific Affairs. All rights reserved. Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.211 on: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 11:39:58 China, Japan, and South Korea, he comments favourably on Canada’s up-to-date marketing strategiesofQantasandSingaporeAirlines. chain requirementsofToyota, Sony, Samsung,andLenovo, aswellthe interesting case studies of the supply distribution companies and the very depth knowledgeofindividual Asianmanufacturing, transportation, and at Rimmer’sjust around the corner from the Rim. One can only marvel in- the book.Thisexaminationisalsoextendedinpart3to AustraliaandIndia, detail forselectedcountriesoftheAsian-PacificRim in thesecondpartof with national-levellogisticspoliciesandplans,which are thenexploredin corridors as a way of linking international flows of goods and information global regionlevel.Heusesspatialconceptssuchasgateways andtransport telecommunications in termsofhub-and-spoke spatial arrangements on a together withrecenttrendsincontainershipping, cargoairlines, and of supplychainmanagementformanufacturingand retailcompanies overall competitiveness. still alongwayfromreality”(15).Thisofcourseimpactsontheregion’s here than in Europe and North America. “A seamless Asian-Pacific Rim is air transport,andsoon,thecostsoflogisticsareinherentlymoreexpensive hubsandthedifficultiesofshipping, decentralized productionandservice to theelongatedgeographyofAsian-Pacificregion,togetherwithits China, Japan,SouthKorea,andSoutheastAsia.Whatisatstakethatdue the northtoIndonesianarchipelagoinsouthandwhichencompasses responding tothegrowthofaregionthatstretchesfromeasternRussiain region’s supply chain needs and discusses how national transport policies are Transportation geographerPeter Rimmerprovidesagrandsynthesisofthe logistics challengesfacingtheAsian-PacificRimintwenty-firstcentury. economy, nonebeforethisonehavefocusedonthekeytransportationand While therehavebeenmanybookswrittenabouttheriseofAsian The UniversityofBritishColumbia,Vancouver, Canada some ofthekeydynamicsshapingAsiaanditsplaceinworld. they seethem. moving ontothemoreinterestingtaskofcallingregionaldevelopmentsas (constructivism, neorealism,evenKahneman’s prospecttheory, etc.)before also bow, attheoutset,tospiritsof political anddiplomatictheories xxiv, 522pp.(Illustrations, maps.)US$180.00,cloth. ISBN978-1-84720-628-2. By Peter J. Rimmer. MA;Cheltenham,UK:Edward Elgar, Northampton, 2014. ASIAN-PACIFIC RIMLOGISTICS:GlobalContextandLocalPolicies . In achapterexaminingthe paucityofanyjointlogisticspolicybetween By wayofalongintroduction,inpart1theauthordiscusses thegrowth These arequibblesforwhatisaninformedandinsightfulreflectionon Book Reviews Joseph Caron 397 Copyright (c) Pacific Affairs. All rights reserved. Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.211 on: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 11:39:58 The UniversityofBritishColumbia, Vancouver, Canada interested intheAsian-Pacificregion. business studiesscholarsbutalsoforgeographersand spatialplanners valuable fornotonly corridors, eitheractualorproposed.Itwillbevery transportation networks betweencountries,aswellnationaldevelopment explaining theconceptualideasandspatialpatterns oftheregion’s approach tothematerial,togetherwithmany maps anddiagrams Western PacifictotheBalticSea. exchanges throughan“economic cooperationarea” thatstretchesfromthe “Middle Kingdom,” linkedtotheworld bytrade,currencyandcultural reducing thecostsoflogistics:itisdesignedtoreclaimChina’s placeasthe an enormousprojectconveyseconomicandpoliticalambitionsfarbeyond ambitious MaritimeSilkRoad.Althoughnotmentionedinthisstudy, such the pathrunssouthtoVenice, Italy, whereitmeetsupwiththeequally Germany, ittravelsnorthtoRotterdamintheNetherlands. FromRotterdam, Bulgaria, Romania,theCzechRepublic,andGermany. ReachingDuisburgin crosses theBosporusStraitandheadsnorthwestthroughEurope,including west through Iraq,Syria,and Turkey. FromIstanbul, theNewSilk Road then runssouthwestfromCentralAsiatonorthernIranbeforeswinging (Xinjiang), whichisneartheborderwithKazakhstan.TheNewSilkRoad through Lanzhou(GansuProvince),Urumqi(Xinjiang),andKhorgas Road,” whichwillbegininXi’ancentralChinabeforestretchingwest why ChinesePresidentXiJinpinghasproposedtheland-based“NewSilk region, leavingNorthAmericaasarelativeoutlier. Thisofcourseisexactly and geo-economics)byintegratingEurope-Eurasia-Asia as the America, Europe,andAsia(andhencehelpssetthestatusquogeopolitics global transportationlinks,whichgivesmoreorlessequalweighttoNorth Eurasian landbridgewoulddisruptthecurrent“hub-and-spoke”systemof China withthoseofIndiaandfurtherintoEurope.Hepointsoutthata is a “land bridge” that could span the industrial and consumption hubs of region-wide institution. implementation hasoccurred,especiallyintheabsenceofaneffective little He showsthatsimilarplansexistforNortheastAsiaonpaperbutvery level governance,publicinfrastructure,andtheinputofprivatesector. Asian exportssentbycontainershipsintoNorthAmericainvolvingmulti- Columbia, whichisalong-termprojectaimedatcapturingthegrowthof national approachtosupportingintegratedtradecorridorsinBritish 398 This book’s strengths lie in its comprehensive grasp and synthetic Rimmer arguesthatanothermissinglinkinAsian-PacificRimlogistics Pacific Affairs: Volume89,No.2–June2016 David W. Edgington core global