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Regionalism and globalization in East Asia : politics, security and economic development / Mark Beeson.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Beeson, Mark.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Regionalism--East Asia.
Regionalism.
Globalization.
East Asia.
Globalization--East Asia.
National security--East Asia.
National security.
East Asia--Politics and government.
Politics and government.
East Asia--Economic policy.
Economic policy.
Physical Description:
xix, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Summary:
East Asia is the most economically dynamic, strategically significant and politically diverse region on the planet - and the rise of China ensures that the region will be a crucial influence on international relations in the twenty-first century. Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia provides an introduction to and an analysis of the distinctive character and evolution of the political systems, economic structures and security relationships of East Asia. Mark Beeson details the strengths and weaknesses of East Asia's disparate states and assesses the region's capacity to manage its own - often troubled - internal relations, as well as those with the rest of the world. He shows how East Asian development and the prospects for the development of a more unified East Asian region can only be understood in the context of the unique historical circumstances that have underpinned its remarkable rise to prominence over the last few decades.
Contents:
1 Conceptualizing East Asia: From the Local to the Global 1
Recognizing regions 2
East Asia: unity in diversity? 7
Regional divergence or global convergence? 14
2 The Weight of History 26
The decline of Chinese hegemony 27
The rise of Japan 37
The subordination of Southeast Asia 48
3 Geopolitics and Security 64
American hegemony and its impact 66
Security at the national level 73
Regional international relations and security 83
4 Nationalism, Domestic Politics and Asian Values 100
East Asia's democratic moment? 102
Japan and Northeast Asia 106
Southeast Asia and the making of nations 116
Battering down the Chinese walls? 128
Asian values and human rights 134
5 East Asia's Developmental States 141
The Japanese exemplar 143
The rise of the newly industrializing countries 160
Southeast Asia: the maligned miracles? 166
China: more market, less plan? 173
What now for the developmental state? 179
6 East Asia in a Global Economy 184
Japan and the growth of East Asian regionalization 185
The first and second wave industrializing economies 191
The emergence of 'greater China' 197
The East Asian financial crisis and its aftermath 203
7 The Evolution of East Asian Regionalism 216
The world the Cold War made: ASEAN and Southeast Asian regionalism 217
The post-Cold War and the rise and fall of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation 223
The emergence of East Asian regionalism 227
ASEAN+3 232
8 East Asian Futures 238
Return of the resource curse? 240
Is the planet big enough for China? 244
The coming war with China? 247
The rise of an institutionalized East Asia and the decline of American influence? 251.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-314) and index.
ISBN:
0230000320
0230000339
OCLC:
71266519

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