China's Rise and Regional Integration in East Asia: Hegemony or community?

ISBN-13: 9780415735131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 176 str.

Yong Wook Lee; Key-Young Son

Opis

With featuring far-reaching diversities and disparities among the regional states in their political, economic and social systems and cultural and religious orientations, East Asia is a microcosm of international society at large. Nevertheless, there are unique dynamics unfolding in East Asia at the turn of the twenty-first century, namely the rise of China as a contender for regional and global hegemony and a set of collective initiatives to integrate the region into a harmonious community. This book provides new arguments on China's rise and the transformation of East Asia and analyzes the foreign policy behavior of the regional states and relations among them. In doing so, the contributors show why and how China is rising, and how China's rise shapes the emerging regional structures and institutions in East Asia. Furthermore, given the East Asian context where the world's second and third largest economies coexist with much smaller states and with China's ascendency likely to continue, this book challenges the pervasive dichotomy of hegemony and community. This allows for a fuller and more nuanced account of China's role and the shifting regional policies in East Asia in which hegemonic cooperation does not necessarily lead to a hegemonic form of regional order. Presenting strategic, political, economic and historical perspectives on China's changing role in the region and the development of regionalism, China's Rise and Regional Integration in East Asia will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics, Asian politics, international relations and regionalism.

Recenzje

"Because their analytical perspective is rooted more in the long term view of East Asian integration, it is not difficult to apply their principles and assertions to the somewhat altered circumstances that are in place today and those that will be in place in the near-term future. The chapters are appropriate for specialists, graduate students and, in some cases, advanced undergraduates."
Kristin Mulready-Stone, Kansas State University, East Asia Integration Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part I: Hegemony 2. U.S.-China Relations and a New Dual Leadership Structure in the Asia-Pacific  3. The United States, East Asia, and Chinese "Triumphalism" 4. A Reason for Concern but Not Alarm: A Chinese Perspective on China’s Military Rise 5. The Emergence of the G2 Era and Faltering South Korea-China Relations  Part II: Community 6. Transnational Identity and Order in Northeast Asia 7. Commercial Space Versus Security Space: The Complex Institutions of Northeast Asia 8. China’s Relations with Its Neighboring Countries: Historical Patterns and the Formation of a Regional Community 9. Synthesis and Reformulation of Foreign Policy Change: Japan and East Asian Financial Regionalism