Beyond Japan

by Katzenstein, Peter J. (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780801444005
• ISBN10: 0801444004
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-02
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

Have JapanÕs relative economic decline and ChinaÕs 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 AsiaÕs 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1. East Asia—Beyond Japan	1
PETER J. KATZENSTEIN
I JAPAN
2. A Decade of Political Torpor: When Political Logic Trumps Economic Rationality	37	(26)
T.J. PEMPEL
3. Students, Slackers, Singles, Seniors, and Strangers: Transforming a Family-Nation	63	(22)
WILLIAM W. KELLY AND MERRY I. WHITE
II BALANCING AMERICA AND JAPAN
4. Immovable Object? Japan's Security Policy in East Asia	85	(23)
H. RICHARD FRIMAN, PETER J. KATZENSTEIN, DAVID LEHENY, AND NOBUO OKAWARA
5. Creating a Regional Arena: Financial Sector Reconstruction, Globalization, and Region-Making	108	(22)
NATASHA HAMILTON-HART
6. Has Politics Caught Up with Markets? In Search of East Asian Economic Regionalism	130	(31)
NAOKO MUNAKATA
III THE END OF NATIONAL MODELS
7. Searching for a New Role in East Asian Regionalization—Japanese Production Networks in the Electronics Industry	161	(27)
DIETER ERNST
8. Regional Shrimp, Global Trees, Chinese Vegetables: The Environment in Japan–East Asia Relations	188	(23)
DEREK HALL
9. A Narrow Place to Cross Swords: "Soft Power" and the Politics of Japanese Popular Culture in East Asia	211
DAVID LEHENY
IV NEW SOCIAL FORCES IN EAST ASIA
10. The Third Wave: Southeast Asia and Middle-Class Formation in the Making of a Region	237	(36)
TAKASHI SHIRAISHI
References	273	(38)
List of Contributors	311	(2)
Index	313