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Remapping East Asia

Author : T. J. Pempel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501732096

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Remapping East Asia by T. J. Pempel Pdf

An overarching ambiguity characterizes East Asia today. The region has at least a century-long history of internal divisiveness, war, and conflict, and it remains the site of several nettlesome territorial disputes. However, a mixture of complex and often competing agents and processes has been knitting together various segments of East Asia. In Remapping East Asia, T. J. Pempel suggests that the region is ripe for cooperation rather than rivalry and that recent "region-building" developments in East Asia have had a substantial cumulative effect on the broader canvas of international politics. This collection is about the people, processes, and institutions behind that region-building. In it, experts on the area take a broad approach to the dynamics and implications of regionalism. Instead of limiting their focus to security matters, they extend their discussions to topics as diverse as the mercurial nature of Japan's leadership role in the region, Southeast Asian business networks, the war on terrorism in Asia, and the political economy of environmental regionalism. Throughout, they show how nation-states, corporations, and problem-specific coalitions have furthered regional cohesion not only by establishing formal institutions, but also by operating informally, semiformally, or even secretly.

A New East Asia

Author : Kazuko Mōri,Kenʼichirō Hirano
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9971693828

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A New East Asia by Kazuko Mōri,Kenʼichirō Hirano Pdf

East Asia is normally identified as a group of countries lying along the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, but in recent years scholars have begun thinking about a new East Asia that is a community rather than a set of sovereign states. This regional community is a theoretical notion variously defined on the basis of economic or political relations, philosophical orientations, language or other criteria, with each standard producing a different set of boundaries. This book looks at the new East Asia from a Northeast Asian perspective, considering it both as a theoretical construct and a practical reality.The authors are Asian Studies specialists, mainly from Japan but with contributions from Korea and the United States, and they consider the trade and economic interaction, diplomacy, and security arrangements of East Asia. Prepared as part of a five-year research program conducted by Waseda University's 21st Century Center of Excellence for the Creation of Contemporary Asian Studies, the essays are published here in English for the first time

East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective

Author : Tamio Nakamura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134010332

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East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective by Tamio Nakamura Pdf

Plenty has been written about the political and economical aspects of regionalism, but the legal perspective has been neglected. East Asian Regionalism From a Legal Perspective is unique in synthesizing legal, economic and political analyses. In the first part, the book investigates the current features of regionalism from a comparative perspective, looking at economic and currency cooperation and comparing Asian regionalism with Europe and Latin America. In the second part, the contributors go on to look at the present legal features of regionalism, covering institutional frameworks, trade diversity and regional integration. The third part of the book is truly unique in proposing an essential groundwork for the institutionalisation of an East Asian Community. It conceives a draft East Asian Charter, an essential document that distils what East Asian nations have achieved, and also includes integral principles and fundamental rules for future cooperation among countries and peoples in the region. This book will be of interest to graduates and academics interested in regionalism, international relations, international law and Asian studies.

Currency and Contest in East Asia

Author : William M. Grimes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801457432

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Currency and Contest in East Asia by William M. Grimes Pdf

Since the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98, East Asian economies have sought to make themselves less vulnerable to global financial markets by transforming the regional financial architecture. With Japan as a leading actor, they have introduced initiatives to provide emergency financing to crisis economies, support the development of local-currency bond markets, and better coordinate currency policies. In Currency and Contest in East Asia, William W. Grimes builds on years of primary research and scores of interviews with participants and policy analysts to provide the most accurate, complete, and detailed description available of attempts to build financial cooperation among East Asian countries. Adapting realist political economy theory to the realities of contemporary global finance, Grimes places regional issues firmly in the wider context of great-power rivalries. He argues that financial regionalism can best be understood as one arena for competition among Japan, the United States, and China. Despite their mutual desire for regional prosperity and economic stability, these three powers have conflicting political interests. Their struggles for regional leadership raise questions about the long-term feasibility of regional financial cooperation, the possible effects of Sino-Japanese rivalry on regional financial stability, and the potential for East Asian financial regionalism to undermine the long-established-albeit waning-global and regional dominance of the United States and the dollar.

The Political Economy of East Asia

Author : Ming Wan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800370593

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The Political Economy of East Asia by Ming Wan Pdf

Offering a coherent overview of the historical and institutional context of enduring patterns in East Asian political economy, this updated and expanded second edition textbook explores the dramatic regional and international transformations that this key region has faced since the 2008 financial crisis.

Remapping the World in East Asia

Author : Mario Cams,Elke Papelitzky
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824895051

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Remapping the World in East Asia by Mario Cams,Elke Papelitzky Pdf

When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan, and Joseon Korea selectively encompassed elements of the late Renaissance worldview, leading to the creation of new artifacts that mitigated old and new knowledge in creative ways. Simultaneously, missionaries and their collaborators transcribed, replicated, and recombined from East Asian artifacts and informed European audiences about the newly discovered lands known as the “Far East.” All these new artifacts enjoyed long afterlives that ensured the continuous remapping of the world in the following decades and centuries. Focusing on artifacts, this expansively illustrated volume tells the story of a meeting of worldviews. Tracing the connections emanating from each artifact, the authors illuminate how every map, globe, or book was shaped by the intellectual, social, and material cultures of East Asia, while connecting multiple global centers of learning and print culture. Crossing both historical and historiographical boundaries reveals how this series of artifacts embody a continuous and globally connected process of mapping the world, rather than a grand encounter between East and West. As such, this book rewrites the narrative surrounding the so-called “Ricci Maps,” which assumes that one Jesuit missionary brought scientific cartography to East Asia by translating and adapting a Renaissance world map. It argues for a revision of that narrative by emphasizing process and connectivity, displacing the European missionary and “his map” as central actors that supposedly bridged a formidable civilizational divide between Europe and China. Rather than a single map authored by a European missionary, a series of materially different artifacts were created as a result of discussions between the Jesuit Matteo Ricci and his Chinese contacts during the last decades of Ming rule. Each of these gave rise to the production of new artifacts that embodied broader intellectual conversations. By presenting eleven original chapters by Asian, European, and American scholars, this work covers an extensive range of artifacts and crosses boundaries between China, Japan, Korea, and the global pathways that connected them to the other end of the Eurasian landmass.

Comparing Institution-Building in East Asia

Author : H. Yoshimatsu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137370556

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Comparing Institution-Building in East Asia by H. Yoshimatsu Pdf

Yoshimatsu explores the causes and implications of the diverse degree of institution-building in East Asia by examining two processes of initiating and developing multilateral institutions in five policy areas: trade, finance, food security, energy security, and the environment.

East Asian Regionalism

Author : Christopher M. Dent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317509448

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East Asian Regionalism by Christopher M. Dent Pdf

East Asia is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse regions and is also becoming an increasingly coherent region through the inter-play of various integrative economic, political and socio-cultural processes. Fully updated and revised throughout, this new edition explores the various ways in which East Asian regionalism continues to deepen. The second edition has been expanded to incorporate coverage of significant issues that have emerged in recent years including: Growing tensions in the region over maritime territory and historical issues Competing regional free trade agreement negotiations The impact of the global financial crisis on financial co-operation and engagement with global governance Obama’s ‘pivot to Asia’ and developments in US relations with East Asia The influence of new technology and social media on micro-level regional relations The growing importance of ‘new diplomacy’ issues such as energy security, climate change, food security and international migration. Key pedagogical features include: end of chapter 'study questions' case studies that discuss topical issues with study questions also provided useful tables and figures which illustrate key regional trends in East Asia Extensive summary conclusions covering the chapter's main findings from different international political economy perspectives. East Asian Regionalism is an essential text for courses on East Asian regionalism, Asian politics and Asian economics.

The Political Economy of Regionalism in East Asia

Author : H. Yoshimatsu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.

Unlocking the Potential for East and North-East Asian Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration

Author : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210577359

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Unlocking the Potential for East and North-East Asian Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Pdf

At the outset, the subregions of East and North-East Asia are more dissimilar than similar, with different stages of development, economic structure and size, political systems and culture. Due to these differences and long standing historical and geopolitical tensions, institutionalized regionalization has not made much progress. Yet, there are increasing interactions and this publication looks into how greater cooperation and integration could offer solutions to not only the old problems of poverty and political instability facing the subregion but also the new challenges posed by economic growth such as emerging income gaps, environmental degradation, urbanization and congestion and various social issues.

Asia and the Transformation of the World-System

Author : Ganesh K. Trichur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317263463

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Asia and the Transformation of the World-System by Ganesh K. Trichur Pdf

In this collaboratively authored book world-system scholars critically synthesize Asia's re-emerging centrality despite the myriad financial crises that have punctuated the end of the U.S.-dominated Cold War world order. From different vantage points the authors review the turbulent landscape of the region that points toward a new Asian world order as well as contradictory symptoms and signals. The text highlights the salience of Northeast Asia; the resurgence of Russia and Eurasianism; and the class, gender, and ecological implications of a conflict-ridden regional ascent for the future of the North-South divide and for the struggle between the spirit of Davos and the spirit of Porto Alegre.

China, the United States, and South-East Asia

Author : Sheldon W. Simon,Evelyn Goh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134087051

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China, the United States, and South-East Asia by Sheldon W. Simon,Evelyn Goh Pdf

China’s emergence as a great power is a global concern that can potentially alter the structure of world politics. Its rise is multidimensional, affecting the political, security, and economic affairs of all states that comprise the world’s fastest developing region of the Asia-Pacific. Most of the recently published studies on China’s rise have focused on its relations with its immediate neighbours in Northeast Asia: Japan, the Koreas, Taiwan, and Russia. Less attention has been given to Southeast Asia’s relations with China. To address these issues, this volume, with its wide range of perspectives, will make a valuable contribution to the ongoing policy and academic dialogue on a rising China. It examines a range of perspectives on the nature of China’s rise and its implications for Southeast Asian states as well as US interests in the region. China, the United States and South-East Asia will be of great interest to students of Chinese politics, South-East Asian politics, regional security and international relations in general.

Regional Community Building in East Asia

Author : Lee Lai To,Zarina Othman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317265566

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Regional Community Building in East Asia by Lee Lai To,Zarina Othman Pdf

This volume is a collection of papers written by nationals or former nationals of the respective country in ASEAN and Northeast Asia. Unlike other works written by scholars outside ASEAN or East Asia, it offers an insider’s point of view of the 10 ASEAN states, China, Japan and South Korea on regional community building. While a nationalist perspective may permeate throughout the study, it is also clear that pursuing regional cooperation is considered to be important by the respective author, denoting the non-exclusivity between nationalism and regionalism and the mutual reinforcement of the two. Each author of this volume has made a deliberate effort to introduce and survey the developmental challenges and experiences of his or her country from a historical perspective. All authors, without exception, have emphasized the importance and advantages in staying with ASEAN or linking up with ASEAN by China, Japan and South Korea in political-security, economic and socio-cultural terms. Their papers also reveal that the self-help and self-strengthening mechanism emphasized by the ASEAN Plus Three process will take time to bear fruits. In the meantime, it seems that bilateral interactions and cooperation between ASEAN and Northeast Asian states remain to be more dominant as shown in this study. One can argue that bilateral interactions are the building block of multilateralism interactions. To be sure, there is a deliberate effort in this study to highlight "unity in diversity" in East Asia in general and ASEAN in particular.

East Asia's Other Miracle

Author : Alex J. Bellamy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191083785

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East Asia's Other Miracle by Alex J. Bellamy Pdf

East Asia, until recently the scene of widespread blood-letting, has achieved relative peace. A region that at the height of the Cold War had accounted for around eighty percent of the world's mass atrocities has experienced such a decline in violence that by 2015 it accounted for less than five percent. This book explains East Asia's 'other' miracle and asks whether it is merely a temporary blip in the historical cycle or the dawning of a new, and more peaceful, era for the region. It argues that the decline of mass atrocities in East Asia resulted from four interconnected factors: the consolidation of states and emergence of responsible sovereigns; the prioritization of economic development through trade; the development of norms and habits of multilateralism, and transformations in the practice of power politics. Particular attention is paid to North Korea and Myanmar, countries whose experience has bucked regional trends largely because these states have not succeeded in consolidating themselves to the point where they no longer depend on violence to survive. Although the region faces several significant future challenges, this book argues that the much reduced incidence of mass atrocities in East Asia is likely to be sustained into the foreseeable future.

Changing Security Dynamics in East Asia

Author : Elena Atanassova-Cornelis,Frans-Paul van der Putten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137364180

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Changing Security Dynamics in East Asia by Elena Atanassova-Cornelis,Frans-Paul van der Putten Pdf

This original and detailed collection explores how regional actors deal with uncertainties that are inherent to the current geopolitical situation in East Asia. The contributors collectively demonstrate that strategic uncertainty has become a major factor in the shaping of the security order in East Asia.