The Political Economy of Regionalism in East Asia

The Political Economy of Regionalism in East Asia

Author: H. Yoshimatsu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-04-23

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0230584195

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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.


The Political Economy of East Asia

The Political Economy of East Asia

Author: Ming Wan

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2007-10-17

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 1483305325

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For students of international political economy, it is hard to ignore the growth, dynamism, and global impact of East Asia. Japan and China are two of the largest economies in the world, in a region now accounting for almost 30 percent more trade than the United States, Canada, and Mexico combined. What explains this increasing wealth and burgeoning power? In his new text, Ming Wan illustrates the diverse ways that the domestic politics and policies of countries within East Asia affect the region’s production, trade, exchange rates, and development, and are in turn affected by global market forces and international institutions. Unlike most other texts on East Asian political economy that are essentially comparisons of major individual countries, Wan effectively integrates key thematic issues and country-specific examples to present a comprehensive overview of East Asia’s role in the world economy. The text first takes a comparative look at the region’s economic systems and institutions to explore their evolution—a rich and complex story that looks beyond the response to Western pressures. Later chapters are organized around close examination of production, trade, finance, and monetary relations. While featuring extended discussion of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, Wan is inclusive in his analysis, with coverage including Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines. The text is richly illustrated with more than fifty tables, figures, and maps that present the latest economic and political data to help students better visualize trends and demographics. Each chapter ends with extensive lists of suggested readings.


The Political Economy of Regionalism

The Political Economy of Regionalism

Author: Edward D. Mansfield

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780231106634

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Exploring regionalism from a political economic perspective, this text investigates why regional arrangements are formed, the conditions under which these arrangements solidify, and why they take on different institutional forms.


Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia

Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia

Author: Mark Beeson

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 2014-01-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137332363

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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.


The Political Economy of Regionalism, Trade, and Infrastructure

The Political Economy of Regionalism, Trade, and Infrastructure

Author: Hong Liu

Publisher: China's Belt and Road Initiati

Published: 2021-09-25

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9789811233142

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"The articles are timely, especially in view of the increasingly tense global/regional environment. The articles provide both a quantitative and qualitative angles to important questions facing our world; too many quantitative-oriented papers will not appeal to the broader audience while too many qualitative-oriented papers will not attract the attention of economists and data scientists. The articles are drawn from a diverse range of professions including academia, government, and the financial sector"--


Beyond Japan

Beyond Japan

Author: Peter J. Katzenstein

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1501731114

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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.


Political Economy of Northeast Asian Regionalism

Political Economy of Northeast Asian Regionalism

Author: T. J. Pempel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781847208910

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'Too often analyses of East Asia are written by outsiders. the great merit of this broad ranging and well-conceived collection is to showcase original perspectives from China, Korea and Japan. As such, it is a welcome addition to the existing literature.' - Mark Beeson, the University of Birmingham, UK


Cross Regional Trade Agreements

Cross Regional Trade Agreements

Author: Saori N. Katada

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-06-24

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 3540793275

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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.


New East Asian Regionalism

New East Asian Regionalism

Author: Charles Harvie

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2005-12-20

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781781958377

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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.


Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific

Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific

Author: Vinod K. Aggarwal

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-11-03

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1441968334

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East Asian countries are now pursuing greater formal economic institutionalization, weaving a web of bilateral and minilateral preferential trade agreements. Scholarly analysis of “formal” East Asian regionalism focuses on international political and economic factors such as the end of the Cold War, the Asian financial crisis, or the rising Sino-Japanese rivalry. Yet this work pays inadequate attention to the strategies of individual government agencies, business groups, labor unions, and NGOs across the region. Moreover, most studies also fail to adequately characterize different types of trade arrangements, often lumping together bilateral accords with minilateral ones, and transregional agreements with those within the region. To fully understand this cross-national variance, this book argues that researchers must give greater attention to the domestic politics within East Asian countries and the U.S., involving the interplay of these subnational players. With contributions from leading country and regional trade specialists, this book examines East Asian and American trade strategies through the lens of a domestic bargaining game approach with a focus on the interplay of interests, ideas, and domestic institutions within the context of broader international shifts. With respect to domestic politics, the chapters show how subnational actors engage in lobbying, both of their own governments and through their links to others in the region. They also trace the evolution of interests and ideas over time, helping us to generate a better understanding of historical trends in the region. In addition to scholars of East Asian and comparative regionalism, this book will be of interest to policy-makers concerned with international trade and U.S.-Asia relations, and those interested in understanding the rich trade institutional landscape that we see emerging in the Asia-Pacific.