Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region Contributor(s): Pempel, T. J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801442761 ISBN-13: 9780801442766 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2004 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - Political Science | Political Economy |
Dewey: 337.5 |
LCCN: 2004015299 |
Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy |
Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.3" W x 9.58" (1.33 lbs) 334 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - East Asian |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pempel, T. J.: - T. J. Pempel is Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, Professor of Political Science, and holder of the Il Han New Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or editor of many books, including Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy, Crisis as Catalyst: Asia's Dynamic Political Economy, and The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis (all from Cornell) and Japan in Crisis: What Will It Take for Japan to Rise Again? |