Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism
Author: Peter J Katzenstein
Have Japan's relative economic decline and China's rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power, one of the most comprehensive volumes on East Asian regionalism in the 1990s, present here an impressive new collection that brings the reader up to date.
This book argues that East Asia's regional dynamics are no longer the result of a simple extension of any one national model. While Japanese institutional structures and political practices remain critically important, the new East Asia now under construction is more than, and different from, the sum of its various national parts. At the outset of a new century, the interplay of Japanese factors with Chinese, American, and other national influences is producing a distinctively new East Asian region.
About the Author:
Peter J. Katzenstein is Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His many books include A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium; Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan; Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe, all from Cornell. Takashi Shiraishi is Vice President and Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan and the author or editor of many books, including three award-winning books. Among his English-language books are An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912-1926 and After the Crisis: Hegemony, Technocracy and Governance in Southeast Asia. Katzenstein and Shiraishi are coeditors of Network Power: Japan and Asia, also from Cornell.
Table of Contents:
| 1 | East Asia - beyond Japan | |
| 2 | A decade of political torpor : when political logic trumps economic rationality | 37 |
| 3 | Students, slackers, singles, seniors, and strangers : transforming a family-nation | 63 |
| 4 | Immovable object? : Japan's security policy in East Asia | 85 |
| 5 | Creating a regional arena : financial sector reconstruction, globalization, and region-making | 108 |
| 6 | Has politics caught up with markets? : in search of East Asian economic regionalism | 130 |
| 7 | Searching for a new role in East Asian regionalization - Japanese production networks in the electronics industry | 161 |
| 8 | Regional shrimp, global trees, Chinese vegetables : the environment in Japan - East Asia relations | 188 |
| 9 | A narrow place to cross swords : "soft power" and the politics of Japanese popular culture in East Asia | 211 |
| 10 | The third wave : Southeast Asia and middle-class formation in the making of a region | 237 |
The Asian Pacific
Author: Vera Simon
Simone, Vera, The Asian Pacific, 2nd Edition* The Asian Pacific, Second Edition, provides a thought-provoking introduction to both the internal and international politics of the fifteen mainland and island countries of East and Southeast Asia, including Japan, North and South Korea, China, and Vietnam. Beginning with an examination of the colonial experience and its impact on the growth of nationalism and the formation of modern political and economic institutions, the book utilizes cross-national comparisons to illuminate the transformation of traditional cultures and their adaptation of Western ideologies. For those interested in the political, economic, and cultural development of Asian Pacific countries.
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Introduces the internal and international politics of the 15 mainland and island countries of East and Southeast Asia, including Japan, North and South Korea, China, and Vietnam. Simone (political science, California State U.-Fullerton) takes an interdisciplinary approach to the region, providing historical, cultural, political, and economic background. Terms and concepts are updated; coverage of the Asian financial crisis is also thoroughly covered in this edition. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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