Remapping East Asia

by Pempel, T. J.

• ISBN13: 9780801489099
• ISBN10: 0801489091
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-13
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Preface	ix
Contributors	xi
Introduction: Emerging Webs of Regional Connectedness	1	(30)
T.J. Pempel
I REGIONALISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
East Asian Regional Institutions: Characteristics, Sources, Distinctiveness	31	(23)
Etel Solingen
Demographic Future of East Asian Regional Integration	54	(23)
Geoffrey Mcnicoll
II DRIVING REGIONAL INTEGRATION
States
The Decline of a Japan-Led Model of the East Asian Economy	77	(24)
Andrew Macintyre
Barry Naughton
Why So Many Maps There? Japan and Regional Cooperation	101	(48)
Keiichi Tsunekawa
Corporations
Between Foreign Direct Investment and Regionalism: The Role of Japanese Production Networks	149	(21)
Dennis Tachiki
The Regionalization of Southeast Asian Business: Transnational Networks in National Contexts	170	(25)
Natasha Hamilton-Hart
III REGIONAL LINKAGES: INSTITUTIONS, INTERESTS, IDENTITIES
Between Regionalism and Regionalization: Policy Networks and the Nascent East Asian Institutional Identity	195	(21)
Paul Evans
The Political Economy of Environmental Regionalism in Asia	216	(20)
Laura B. Campbell
The War on Terrorism in Asia and the Possibility of Secret Regionalism	236	(20)
David Leheny
Conclusion: Tentativeness and Tensions in the Construction of an Asian Region	256	(21)
T.J. Pempel
References	277	(30)
Index	307