Information Regimes During The Cold War In East Asia

Author : Jason Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000200478

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Information Regimes During the Cold War in East Asia by Jason Morgan Pdf

Morgan and his contributors develop the concept of the Information Regime as a way to understand the use, abuse, and control of information in East Asia during the Cold War period. During the Cold War, war itself was changing, as was statecraft. Information emerged as the most valuable commodity, becoming the key component of societies across the globe. This was especially true in East Asia, where the military alliances forged in the wake of World War II were put to the most severe of tests. These tests came in the form of adversarial relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as pressures within their alliances, which eventually caused the People’s Republic of China to break with from Moscow, while Japan for a time during the 1950s and 1660s seemed poised to move away from Washington. More important than military might, or economic influence, was the creation of "information regimes" – swathes of territory where a paradigm, ideology, or political arrangement were obtained. Information regimes are not necessarily state-centric and many of the contributors to this book focus on examples which were not so. Such a focus allows us to see that the East Asian Cold War was not really "cold" at all, but was the epicentre of an active, contentious birth of information as the defining element of human interaction. This book is a valuable resource for historians of East Asia and of developments in information management in the twentieth century.

Author : Yangwen Zheng,Hong Liu,Michael Szonyi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004175372

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The Cold War in Asia by Yangwen Zheng,Hong Liu,Michael Szonyi Pdf

The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to what has been conventionally considered the periphery is essential to a full understanding of the global Cold War. Foregrounding Asia necessarily leads to a re-assessment of the dominant narratives. This volume also argues for a shift in focus from diplomacy and high politics alone towards research into the culture of the Cold War era and its public diplomacy. "As a whole, the essays contribute to enriching our understanding of what was really happening in an era that is too often understood in the catch-all framework of the Cold War." - Akira Iriye, "Harvard University"

Author : Akira Iriye
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Asia
ISBN : UCBK:C038968063

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The Cold War in Asia by Akira Iriye Pdf

Author : William E. Odom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 155813042X

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Trial After Triumph by William E. Odom Pdf

In this book, William Odom analyzes the security strategies of each Northeast Asian nation and, specifically, their strategies toward one another within the region.

Author : David Youtz,Paul Midford
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015029101501

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A Northeast Asian Security Regime by David Youtz,Paul Midford Pdf

This study analyzes the possibility of a multilateral security system in Asia. The authors assess past Soviet proposals of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Asia and discuss the shortcomings of the CSCA concept that are preventing its acceptance.

Author : Sheldon W. Simon
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1563240580

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East Asian Security in the Post-Cold War Era by Sheldon W. Simon Pdf

North American scholars discuss military conditions and prospects in east Asia now that the overlay of the Cold War has been lifted. Among their topics are the growing role of regional leaders, new relations with great powers that had been adversaries, and mopping up such minor lingering issues as the division of Korea, conflicting Japanese and Russian territorial claims, and, of course, China. The nine papers were presented at a March 1991 conference in Monterey, California, and rewritten in 1992 to account for subsequent events. Paper edition (unseen), $17.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ralph A. Cossa,Atsumasa Yamamoto,Margo Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : East Asia
ISBN : UCSD:31822018930248

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The Japan-U.S. Alliance and Security Regimes in East Asia by Ralph A. Cossa,Atsumasa Yamamoto,Margo Cooper Pdf

Author : Alexander Dukalskis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315455518

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The Authoritarian Public Sphere by Alexander Dukalskis Pdf

Authoritarian regimes craft and disseminate reasons, stories, and explanations for why they are entitled to rule. To shield those legitimating messages from criticism, authoritarian regimes also censor information that they find threatening. While committed opponents of the regime may be violently repressed, this book is about how the authoritarian state keeps the majority of its people quiescent by manipulating the ways in which they talk and think about political processes, the authorities, and political alternatives. Using North Korea, Burma (Myanmar) and China as case studies, this book explains how the authoritarian public sphere shapes political discourse in each context. It also examines three domains of potential subversion of legitimating messages: the shadow markets of North Korea, networks of independent journalists in Burma, and the online sphere in China. In addition to making a theoretical contribution to the study of authoritarianism, the book draws upon unique empirical data from fieldwork conducted in the region, including interviews with North Korean defectors in South Korea, Burmese exiles in Thailand, and Burmese in Myanmar who stayed in the country during the military government. When analyzed alongside state-produced media, speeches, and legislation, the material provides a rich understanding of how autocratic legitimation influences everyday discussions about politics in the authoritarian public sphere. Explaining how autocracies manipulate the ways in which their citizens talk and think about politics, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, comparative politics and authoritarian regimes.

Author : Steven Levitsky,Lucan A. Way
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139491488

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Competitive Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky,Lucan A. Way Pdf

Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was weaker and countries rarely democratized. In these cases, regime outcomes hinged on the character of state and ruling party organizations. Where incumbents possessed developed and cohesive coercive party structures, they could thwart opposition challenges, and competitive authoritarian regimes survived; where incumbents lacked such organizational tools, regimes were unstable but rarely democratized.

Author : Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Publisher : Cold War International History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0804773319

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The Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1991 by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Pdf

This work examines Asia as a second front in the Cold War, looking at how the six powers, the US, China, the USSR and North and South Korea, interacted with one another and forged conditions that were distinct from the Cold War in the West.

Author : T. J. Pempel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501758812

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A Region of Regimes by T. J. Pempel Pdf

A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics—power and prosperity—in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to show radically different paths leading to high growth for many but abject failure for some. T. J. Pempel analyzes policies and data from ten East Asian countries, categorizing them into three distinct regime types, each historically contingent and the product of specific configurations of domestic institutions, socio-economic resources, and external support. Pempel identifies Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as developmental regimes, showing how each then diverged due to domestic and international forces. North Korea, Myanmar, and the Philippines (under Marcos) comprise "rapacious regimes" in this analysis, while Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand form "ersatz developmental regimes." Uniquely, China emerges as an evolving hybrid of all three regime types. A Region of Regimes concludes by showing how the shifting interactions of these regimes have profoundly shaped the Asia-Pacific region and the globe across the postwar era.

Author : Jini Kim Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 082329482X

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Cold War Reckonings by Jini Kim Watson Pdf

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Author : Andrew Mack,John Ravenhill
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106012146921

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Pacific Cooperation by Andrew Mack,John Ravenhill Pdf

This volume brings together distinguished scholars to assess the literature on international regimes and to explore the relevance of organizations such as NAFTA, GATT, CSCE, and the EU for the Asia-Pacific region. The contributors also evaluate whether lessons for promoting cooperation in the security field can be drawn from the recent successes in regional economic cooperation. Pacific Cooperation will be essential reading for policymakers, academics, and anyone with an interest in understanding the prospects for promoting stability and prosperity.

Author : Barak Kushner,Andrew Levidis
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888528288

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In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire by Barak Kushner,Andrew Levidis Pdf

In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire concludes that early East Asian Cold War history needs to be studied within the framework of post-imperial history. Japan’s surrender did not mean that the Japanese and former imperial subjects would immediately disavow imperial ideology. The end of the Japanese empire unleashed unprecedented destruction and violence on the periphery. Lives were destroyed; names of cities altered; collaborationist regimes—which for over a decade dominated vast populations—melted into the air as policeman, bureaucrats, soldiers, and technocrats offered their services as nationalists, revolutionaries or communists. Power did not simply change hands swiftly and smoothly. In the chaos of the new order, legal anarchy, revenge, ethnic displacement, and nationalist resentments stalked the postcolonial lands of northeast Asia, intensifying bloody civil wars in societies radicalized by total war, militarization, and mass mobilization. Kushner and Levidis’s volume follows these processes as imperial violence reordered demographics and borders, and involved massive political, economic, and social dislocation as well as stubborn continuities. From the hunt for “traitors” in Korea and China to the brutal suppression of the Taiwanese by the Chinese Nationalist government in the long-forgotten February 28 Incident, the research shows how the empire’s end acted as a catalyst for renewed attempts at state-building. From the imperial edge to the metropole, investigations shed light on how prewar imperial values endured during postwar Japanese rearmament and in party politics. Nevertheless, many Japanese actively tried to make amends for wartime transgressions and rebuild Japan’s posture in East Asia by cultivating religious and cultural connections. “This third book to emerge from Barak Kushner’s massive collaborative research project on the dissolution of Japan’s empire lays out a new geography of turning the ruins into social, economic, political, and cultural opportunities across Northeast Asia, and with lasting consequences. This book will change the way we research and teach ‘1945’ in a global context.” —Franziska Seraphim, Boston College “Writing imperial history, linking the prewar to postwar, is perilous because it must resist domestic taboos and social pressures. Today’s global society, where history incites extreme nationalism and serves as catalyst for conflict, calls for the creation of a new history of the end of empire as Kushner and his team have done in this volume.” —ASANO Toyomi, Waseda University

Author : Ang Cheng Guan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000440102

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The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation by Ang Cheng Guan Pdf

A History of the Manila Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) from its establishment in 1954 until its dissolution in 1977. The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) has received meagre scholarly attention in comparison to other key events and global developments during the duration of the Cold War, due to its perceived failure early in its existence. However, there has been a renewed interest in the academic study of the organization. Some scholars have argued that SEATO was not an outright failure. New literatures have also shed in detail the workings of SEATO, such as operational-level contingency plans and counter-insurgency plans. This book aims to reconstruct a comprehensive life cycle of SEATO using declassified archival documents which were unavailable to scholars studying the organization from the 1950s through the 1980s and provide a nuanced assessment of it. In addition, in recent years, there is also an emerging interest in the possibility of a multilateral military alliance in Asia, for instance the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue morphing into an "Asian NATO". As such, it is therefore crucial to study how previous multilateral alliances in the context of Asia were formed, how they functioned, and subsequently dissolved. A groundbreaking reference on a key element of the United States’ Cold War strategy in Asia, which will be a valuable resource to scholars of twentieth century diplomatic history.