Reconfiguring East Asia: Regional Institutions and Organizations After the Crisis

by Beeson; Mark

• ISBN13: 9780700714780
• ISBN10: 0700714782
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-02-21
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

The recent economic crisis in East Asia has profoundly altered both the way the region is now perceived and expectations about its future. Even though the initial crisis has abated somewhat, its impact on the region has been profound. Although much attention was initially paid to rather narrow questions of crisis management and debates about 'crony capitalism', less attention has been given to the way the crisis has impacted on, and been mediated by, regional institutions and organizations. It is this absence that the book seeks to address. It focuses both on specific regional organizations like ASEAN, The Asian Development Bank, and APEC, as well as on key institutions such as East Asian legal systems, the media, organized labour, Asian business systems, and the developmental state. It shows how these institutions are linked to national, intra- regional and inter-regional forces, and develops a multi-dimensional picture of the regions and the complex array of forces that are shaping it. The book concludes byaddressing the key question of whether regional institutions and organizations are encouraging 'convergence' on western lines, or whether the region is sticking to a divergent path which is institutionalized in its own distinctive ways. Contributors include Javed Maswood, Griffith University; Kanishka Jayasuriya, City University of Hong Kong; Mukul Asher, University of Singapore; Gary Rodan, Murdoch University; Mark Beeso

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
List of Abbreviations	ix
List of Figures	xii
List of Tables	xiii
Introduction	1	(6)
Theorising Institutional Change in East Asia	7	(24)
Mark Beeson
Part I -- Institutions
Developmental States in Crisis	31	(18)
S. Javed Maswood
The East Asian Financial Crisis: Midwife to a Movement?	49	(12)
Nicola Bullard
The Implications of the Asian Crisis for Media Control in Asia	61	(22)
Garry Rodan
Social Security Institutions in Southeast Asia After the Crisis	83	(16)
Mukul G. Asber
The Rule of Law and Governance in East Asia	99	(18)
Kanishka Jayasuriya
Social Movement Unionism in East Asia? Regional and South Korean Union Responses to the Crisis	117	(22)
Patricia Ranald
Capitalism in East Asia: The Political Economy of Business Organisation in Japan, Korea and China	139	(22)
Mark Beeson
Leong Liew
Part II -- Organisations
The ASEAN Regional Forum: Material and Ideational Dynamics	161	(24)
Cameron J. Hill
William T. Tow
ASEAN: The Challenges of Organisational Reinvention	185	(20)
Mark Beeson
The Asian Development Bank: Time to Wind It Up?	205	(22)
Edward J. Lincoln
Institutional Evolution at the Trans-Regional Level: Apec and the Promotion of Liberalisation	227	(20)
John Ravenhill
Conclusion: The More Things Change ? Path Dependency and Convergence in East Asia	247	(12)
Mark Beeson
Index	259