Network Power : : Japan and Asia / / ed. by Peter J. Katzenstein, Takashi Shiraishi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Cumings, Bruce,; Doner, Richard F.,; Hamashita, Takeshi,; Katzenstein, Peter J.,; Koschmann, J. Victor,; Pempel, T. J.,; Selden, Mark,; Shiraishi, Saya S.,; Shiraishi, Takashi,; Yamakage, Susumu,
• HerausgeberIn: Katzenstein, Peter J.,; Shiraishi, Takashi,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 18 drawings, 2 maps, 11 charts/graphs, 9 tables

This book examines regional dynamics in contemporary east and southeast Asia, scrutinizing the effects of Japanese dominance on the politics, economics, and cultures of the area. The contributors ask whether Japan has now attained, through sheer economic power and its political and cultural consequences, the predominance it once sought by overtly military means.The discussion is framed by the profound changes of the past decade. Since the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union, regional dynamics increasingly shape international and national developments. This volume places Japan's role in Asian regionalism in a broader comparative perspective with European regionalism and the role Germany plays. It assesses the competitive logics of continental and coastal primacy in China. In starkest form, the question addressed is whether Chinese or Japanese domination of the Asian region is more likely. Between a neo-mercantilist emphasis on the world's movement toward relatively closed regional blocs and an opposing liberal view that global markets are creating convergent pressures across all national boundaries and regional divides, this book takes a middle position. Asian regionalism is identified by two intersecting developments: Japanese economic penetration of Asian supplier networks through a system of production alliances, and the emergence of a pan-Pacific trading region that includes both Asia and North America. The contributors emphasize factors that are creating an Asia marked by multiple centers of influence, including China and the United States.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Asian Regionalism in Comparative Perspective -- I. THE REGIONAL SETTING -- 1. Transpacific Torii: Japan and the Emerging Asian Regionalism -- 2. Asianism's Ambivalent Legacy -- II. FROM PAST TO FUTURE -- 3. The Intra-regional System in East Asia in Modern Times -- 4. Japan and Northeast Asia into the Twenty-first Century -- 5. Japan and Southeast Asia -- III. REGIONAL ISSUES: ECONOMY AND CULTURE -- 6. Japan in East Asia: Institutions and Regional Leadership -- 7. Japan's Soft Power: Doraemon Goes Overseas -- IV. WHAT KIND OF ASIA? -- 8. Japan's National Security and Asia-Pacific's Regional Institutions in the Post-Cold War Era -- 9. China, Japan, and the Regional Political Economy of East Asia, 1945-1995 -- Conclusion: Regions in World Politics, Japan and Asia- Germany in Europe -- Index