Remapping East Asia : : The Construction of a Region / / ed. by T. J. Pempel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Campbell, Laura B.,; Evans, Paul,; Hamilton-Hart, Natasha,; Leheny, David,; Macintyre, Andrew,; Mcnicoll, Geoffrey,; Naughton, Barry,; Pempel, T. J.,; Solingen, Etel,; Tachiki, Dennis,; Tsunekawa, Keiichi,
• HerausgeberIn: Pempel, T. J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.) :; 6 graphs/maps, 9 tables, 4 line drawings

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Emerging Webs of Regional Connectedness -- I. REGIONALISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 2. East Asian Regional Institutions: Characteristics, Sources, Distinctiveness -- 3. Demographic Future of East Asian Regional Integration -- II. DRIVING REGIONAL INTEGRATION -- States -- 4. The Decline of a Japan-led Model of the East Asian Economy -- 5. Why So Many Maps There? Japan and Regional Cooperation -- Corporations -- 6. Between Foreign Direct Investment and Regionalism: The Role of Japanese Production Networks -- 7. The Regionalization of Southeast Asian Business: Transnational Networks in National Contexts -- III. REGIONAL LINKAGES: INSTITUTIONS, INTERESTS, IDENTITIES -- 8. Between Regionalism and Regionalization: Policy Networks and the Nascent East Asian Institutional Identity -- 9. The Political Economy of Environmental Regionalism in Asia -- 10. The War on Terrorism in Asia and the Possibility of Secret Regionalism -- 11. Conclusion: Tentativeness and Tensions in the Construction of an Asian Region -- References -- Index