The making of Northeast Asia /
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| Author / Creator: | Calder, Kent E. |
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| Imprint: | Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010. |
| Description: | xxii, 340 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Asian security Studies in Asian security. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8136447 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- A Note on Conventions
- Flashback
- Abbreviations
- Part I. Introduction and Theory
- 1. Northeast Asia in Global Perspective
- Why Not a Broader Asian Calculus?
- Why Not Just China?
- Northeast Asian Fusion
- Rising Interdependence in Northeast Asia Puts Pressure on the "Organization Gap,"
- The Waning of Constraints in History and Geopolitics
- Deepening Trilateral Policy Dialogue
- Prevailing Academic Pessimism about Northeast Asian Regionalism
- An Alternative View
- Our Contribution
- 2. Theories of Asian Institutional Development: Changing Context and Critical Junctures
- The Explanatory Gap in Current Literature
- Regionalism in Comparative Perspective
- Cross-Regional Commonalities
- The Critical-Juncture Framework
- The Critical-Juncture Framework: Theoretical Background
- Critical Junctures and Regional Institution-Building
- Critical Juncture: The Model Specified
- Why Critical Junctures Matter in Northeast Asia
- Critical Junctures and Regional Evolution: An Agenda for Research
- Part II. Historical Context: Critical Junctures
- 3. The Organization Gap in Historical Perspective: War in Korea and the First Critical Juncture
- Before the Korean Conflict: Still Fluid Patterns in Regional Relations
- War in Korea: The Emergence of Critical Juncture
- Added Complications in Japan
- The Urgency and Complexity of Juncture Decision
- Toward the "San Francisco System,"
- The Korean War, Cross-Straits Confrontation, and the PRC's Economic Isolation
- Why the "Second-Best" Has Proven So Enduring
- In Conclusion
- 4. Overcoming the Organization Gap: Crises and Critical Junctures (1994-2008)
- Pre-Crisis Regionalism in Asia
- Edging Closer to Crisis
- Reaping the Whirlwind: The Coming of Critical Juncture
- The Road to Chiang Mai
- The 2008 Financial Crisis as Critical Juncture
- Part III. Regional Development
- 5. Visions of a More Cohesive Regional Future
- Optimistic Japan-Centric Origins
- The Tortured Transwar Interlude
- Chinese Ambivalence
- From EAEC to AFC: Visions of Asia in the Early Post-Cold War Era
- Re-envisioning Northeast Asia after 1997
- Contending Asianist Visions
- Japan's "Aimaisa": An Ambivalence in Clearly Bridging East and West
- China's Dilemma: How to Exert Rising Power
- South Korea's Choice: Power Balancer or Institutional Broker in Northeast Asia?
- Other Regional Actors
- In Conclusion
- 6. A Deepening Web of Regional Connectedness
- Deepening Trade Relations: A Key Basis for Networks
- Deepening Intrasectoral Linkages
- Emerging Production Networks in Northeast Asia
- How Northeast Asian Production Networks Operate
- The Geographical Dimension: Production Clusters
- A Deepening Taiwanese Role
- Japanese and Korean Production Networks in Greater China
- Policy Networks
- Emerging Institutional Manifestations
- Track II Innovations: The Boao and Jeju Forums
- Transnational Epistemic Communities: Bringing Regionalist Dreams to Earth
- Military Exchanges and Dialogue: Transcending a Complex History
- Emerging Subnational Networks in Northeast Asia: Quiet Transnational Integration
- In Conclusion
- Part IV. National Transformation
- 7. The Transformation of China's Regional Policies
- Wei Ji ["Crisis"] and the Transformation of China's Regional Policies
- The Dual Drivers of China's Regionalist Formation
- In Conclusion
- 8. Catalysts: Korea and ASEAN in the Making of Northeast Asia
- The Rise and Fall of ASEAN as Early Catalyst
- Korea's Natural Catalytical Role
- How Far Korea Has Come: A Historical Perspective
- Toward the Making of Northeast Asia: Deepening Korean Domestic Incentives
- Korea as Catalyst: Why the Policy Shift?
- Five Driving Forces
- In Conclusion
- 9. Japan's Dilemma and the Making of Northeast Asia
- Japan's Tangled Continental Ties
- Fukuzawa's Dilemma Revisited
- A Mixed History: Japan and Region-Building
- Regionalism and the Emerging Profile of Japanese Domestic Political Interests
- Bureaucracy and Regionalism
- Country-Specific Interests
- The Key Role of Japanese Business
- Opponents of Closer Regional Ties
- In Conclusion
- 10. The United States and Northeast Asian Regionalism
- Northeast Asia's Importance to the United States
- America's Early Absence from Northeast Asia
- Key Traits of the Classic San Francisco System
- America's Changing Geopolitical Stakes
- America's Own Transformation
- Deepening Corporate Stakes in Stable Trans-Pacific Relations
- The Overall Profile of American Interests and Northeast Asia's Future
- In Conclusion
- In Conclusion
- 11. Summing Up
- Northeast Asia's Quiet Yet Fateful Transformation
- The Political Dimension
- What is New in this Analysis
- Implications for the Broader World
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index