A Region of Regimes : : Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific / / T. J. Pempel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Pempel, T. J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.) :; 1 b&w line drawing, 5 charts
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Part One --; 1. Developmental Regimes: Japan, Korea, and Taiwan --; 2. Ersatz Developmental Regimes: Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand --; 3. Rapacious Regimes: Plunder over Prosperity: Philippines, North Korea, and Myanmar --; Part Two --; 4. Developmental Regimes Reconstructed --; 5. China: Composite Regime? --; 6. Regimes and the Regional Order --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501758829; 9783110739084; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754179; 9783110753943
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501758829?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: T. J. Pempel.

A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics—power and prosperity—in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to show radically different paths leading to high growth for many but abject failure for some. T. J. Pempel analyzes policies and data from ten East Asian countries, categorizing them into three distinct regime types, each historically contingent and the product of specific configurations of domestic institutions, socio-economic resources, and external support. Pempel identifies Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as developmental regimes, showing how each then diverged due to domestic and international forces. North Korea, Myanmar, and the Philippines (under Marcos) comprise "rapacious regimes" in this analysis, while Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand form "ersatz developmental regimes." Uniquely, China emerges as an evolving hybrid of all three regime types. A Region of Regimes concludes by showing how the shifting interactions of these regimes have profoundly shaped the Asia-Pacific region and the globe across the postwar era.