Regionalism In East Asia

Author : Richard Pomfret
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814304320

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The use of the wind as an energy source is increasing and growing worldwide. Wind energy is an important non-fossil option to supplement fossil (coal, natural gas and oil) and nuclear fuels for the generation of electricity. Many parts of the world, particularly the coastlines of Western Europe, North Africa, North and South America, India, Eastern Russia, China, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, experience a high annual incidence of wind energy. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, together with the Republic of Ireland form a particularly windy location, being favoured with strong westerly winds. The technology of the design and installation of wind turbines and wind farms are, in fact, well established. Operational practice, though, is still being developed as engineers learn by experience. This book is written for electrical engineers concerned with the use of wind power for generating electricity. It incorporates some meteorological features of international wind supply plus a survey of the past and present wind turbines with technical assessment of the choice of turbine sites. Detailed coverage is given to the different types of electrical generator machines used and the electronic control devices employed in modern turbine systems. Importantly, this book devotes full chapters to the integration of wind farms into established electrical grid supply systems, and the environmental and economic aspects of wind generation. Engineers will be drawn to the practical approach in this book, featuring worked numerical examples — complete with answers — at the end of some chapters.

Author : Fu-kuo Liu,Philippe Regnier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136869532

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Regionalism in East Asia by Fu-kuo Liu,Philippe Regnier Pdf

Regional cooperation and integration have emerged as key issues for East Asia following the financial crisis. This book explores these issues, and examines the degree to which a new paradigm is emerging. It reviews the evolution of the concepts and practices of regionalism in East Asia, and considers the factors which are shaping new patterns of regional co-operation and integration. It includes discussions of historical developments, economic co-operation, socio-political factors, and defence and security. It considers the role of those states, including China and Japan, which have distinctive approaches to international relations, and assesses the role of regional international bodies such as ASEAN.

Author : J. Rathus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230342910

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Japan, China and Networked Regionalism in East Asia by J. Rathus Pdf

Viewing the rise of China from Japan's perspective, the author elucidates Japanese policy responses and their implications for regional institution building. It fills a gap in knowledge about the development of East Asian regional institutions and Sino-Japanese relationships.

Author : Narayani Basu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443884402

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The United States and China by Narayani Basu Pdf

With its long history of internal divisiveness and its intersecting cultural and linguistic cleavages, East Asia is undoubtedly a complex area. However, the idea of East Asia as a regional entity is one that is relatively recent – a concept that gained momentum after the financial crisis that rocked the region in the 1990s. In recent years, East Asia has become considerably more interdependent, connected and cohesive. This increased cohesiveness has been driven by a dense network of trade and investments, technology sharing and communication, among many other variables and has been reflected in the increasing institutionalisation of regional mechanisms like the ASEAN. Regionalism is not, however, entirely about economic interdependence. In today’s day and age, it means not only overarching social networks and a regional identity, but also strategic thinking that recognises common security interests. This book takes into account the regional discourses of two of East Asia’s biggest players – the United States and China. While the former has been a power to reckon with, albeit “externally”, deeply entrenched in the region since the end of the Second World War, the rise of China in the 21st century and its emergence as the largest power in East Asia has brought a new perspective to East Asian regionalism. In 2010, the United States began reasserting itself in East Asia, bringing into sharp focus the ideological differences between itself and China as each vied to shape the architecture of East Asian security. There is no doubt that heightened American interest comes at a time when China’s own views of regionalism have become noticeably less cooperative. While balance of power politics is one way to look at the geopolitical tug-of-war in East Asia, there are questions that have not yet been answered. How do the two countries look at a region that is so important for them? How has that perception influenced their foreign policy within the same arena? More importantly, how do they define East Asia? This book studies American and Chinese regional discourses from the end of the Cold War to the present day in order to highlight the rationale behind the natural balance of power politics between an established power and a rising one, and its subsequent effects on security regionalism in East Asia.

Author : Mark Beeson
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137332360

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Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia by Mark Beeson Pdf

This book examines the distinctive evolution of the political and economic relationships of East Asia. It does this by placing East Asian development in the unique historical circumstances that have underpinned its rise to power over the last few decades. This detailed analysis provides the basis for an assessment of a unified East Asian region.

Author : Saori N. Katada,Mireya Solis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540793274

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Cross Regional Trade Agreements by Saori N. Katada,Mireya Solis Pdf

An unacknowledged key feature of East Asian FTA diplomacy is the region's active cross-regional preferential trading relations. In sharp contrast to the Americas and Europe, where cross-regional initiatives gained strength after the consolidation of regional trade integration, East Asian governments negotiate trade deals with partners outside of their region at an early stage in their FTA policies. The book asks three main questions: Are there regional factors in East Asia encouraging countries to explore cross-regionalism early on? What are the most important criteria behind the cross-regional partner selection? How do cross-regional FTSs (CRTAs) influence their intra-regional trade initiatives? Through detailed country case studies from China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, we show the ways in which these governments seek to leverage their CRTAs in the pursuit of intra-regional trade integration objectives, a process that yields a much more permeated regionalism.

Author : Jens-Uwe Wunderlich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000197808

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European and East Asian Regionalism by Jens-Uwe Wunderlich Pdf

Embedded in the evolving comparative regionalism literature, this book offers a systematic analysis of the factors positively and negatively influencing regional institution-building. The ruptures caused by the Eurozone crises, the coronavirus pandemic and by Brexit have renewed the interest in the impact of crises and critical junctures on regionalism here defined as regional institution-building. Drawing from critical juncture research and historical comparative analysis, this volume uses the cases of European and East Asian regional institution-building to systematically analyse institutional transformations during specific historical turning points and critical juncture moments. Wunderlich’s research offers an in-depth analysis of the interrelated drivers, spoilers and dissolvers of regional institution-building processes in Europe and East Asia, and addresses key questions including: Under what conditions does regionalism take hold? What is influencing the initial institutional design choices? What is the impact of historical experiences and well-entrenched norms and ideas? What are the roles of regional leaders? How do external factors influence regional institution-building? What turns a crisis into a critical juncture and are such junctures threats or opportunities? What accounts for variations in institutional responses to crisis events across different regional settings? This book will be a valuable resource for scholars of regionalism, region-building, regional governance and international relations of Europe and East Asia.

Author : Charles Harvie,Fukunari Kimura,Hyun-Hoon Lee
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781958378

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New East Asian Regionalism by Charles Harvie,Fukunari Kimura,Hyun-Hoon Lee Pdf

East Asian countries - currently the most dynamic region of the global economy - have recently pursued trade liberalization through the adoption of various forms of bilateral and plurilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). The book explores the key issues and possible outcomes arising from this departure from the region's traditional multilateral approach to trade liberalization. Implications of this new approach for the region as a whole, and key participating individual economies and blocs of economies, are emphasized.

Author : Melissa Curley,Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134273805

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Advancing East Asian Regionalism by Melissa Curley,Nicholas Thomas Pdf

Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the needs of their attendant peoples, but also challenged the viability of regional organizations, such as ASEAN, to adapt and respond to the changing circumstances. Advancing East Asian Regionalism looks at the ways in which ASEAN has expanded since the crisis, and evaluates the potential of East Asia to come together in a regional formation - one capable of representing the region as a whole - akin to the European Community. It draws upon the knowledge and perspectives of academics and policy makers actively engaged in the contradictory issues of regionalism. Coupling case study material on regionalism, institutions, and sectoral cooperation, with theoretical debates on regionalization, this book is an invaluable resource that pushes our understanding of East Asian regionalism forward.

Author : Peter J. Katzenstein,Takashi Shiraishi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501731112

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Beyond Japan by Peter J. Katzenstein,Takashi Shiraishi Pdf

Have Japan's relative economic decline and China's rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power, one of the most comprehensive volumes on East Asian regionalism in the 1990s, present here an impressive new collection that brings the reader up to date. This book argues that East Asia's regional dynamics are no longer the result of a simple extension of any one national model. While Japanese institutional structures and political practices remain critically important, the new East Asia now under construction is more than, and different from, the sum of its various national parts. At the outset of a new century, the interplay of Japanese factors with Chinese, American, and other national influences is producing a distinctively new East Asian region.

Author : Norman Dunbar Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Asia
ISBN : UCSD:31822018791657

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The New Regionalism in Asia and the Pacific by Norman Dunbar Palmer Pdf

Author : Ho Khai Leong
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789812308566

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Connecting and Distancing by Ho Khai Leong Pdf

"Connecting" and "distancing" have been two prominent themes permeating the writings on the historical and contemporary developments of the relationship between Southeast Asia and China. As neighbours, the nation-states in Southeast Asia and the giant political entity in the north communicated with each other through a variety of diplomatic overtures, political agitations, and cultural nuances. In the last two decades with the rise of China as an economic powerhouse in the region, Southeast Asia's need to connect with China has become more urgent and necessary as it attempts to reap the benefit from the successful economic modernization in China. At the same time, however, there were feelings of ambivalence, hesitation and even suspicions on the part of the Southeast Asian states vis-a-vis the rise of a political power which is so less understood or misunderstood. The contributors of this volume are authors of various disciplinary backgrounds: history, political science, economics and sociology. They provide a spectrum of perspectives by which the readers can view Sino-Southeast Asia relations.

Author : Katsuhiro Sasuga
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : 041533134X

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Microregionalism and Governance in East Asia by Katsuhiro Sasuga Pdf

This book provides an analysis of the processes of micro-regionalization in East Asia within the broader context of globalization and regionalization. The author examines the specifics of corporation production and investment networks that link parts of Japan, Taiwan and China with a detailed case-study focusing on the electronics industry. Making a significant contribution to the research on regionalism and multi-level governance in East Asia, this book will appeal to those interested in international political economy and Asian studies.

Author : H. Yoshimatsu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230584198

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The Political Economy of Regionalism in East Asia by H. Yoshimatsu Pdf

An exploration of the evolution of regionalism and regional economic relations in East Asia since the late 1990s. The book analyzes moves towards free trade agreements, cooperation in information technology, energy and environment, and agriculture, by highlighting preferences and actions of governmental and business actors.

Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814311496

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Southeast Asian Regionalism by Nicholas Tarling Pdf

With the disappearance of the imperial structures that had dominated Southeast Asia, newly independent states had to develop foreign policies of their own. But so far few if any of these states have been willing to allow the public to explore any documentation of their activities. Building on his earlier work that drew on U.K. records, the author incorporates material from New Zealand archives -- which also contain reports from Australian and Canadian diplomats -- to provide a historical analysis of the foreign policies of Southeast Asian nations from a New Zealand perspective.