Reconfiguring East Asia: Regional Institutions and Organizations After the Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780700714773 / Twarda / 2002 / 288 str.

Mark Beeson

Opis

Focuses both on specific regional organizations like ASEAN, The Asian Development Bank and APEC, as well as on key institutions such as East Asian legal systems, the media, organized labour, Asian business systems, and the developmental state.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables Introduction 1. Theorising Institutional Change in East Asia Mark Beeson Part I. Institutions 2. Developmental States in Crisis S. Javed Maswood 3. The East Asian Financial Crisis: Midwife to a Movement? Nicola Bullard 4. The Implications of the Asian Crisis for Media Control in Asia Gary Roddan 5. Social Security Institutions in Southeast Asia after the Crisis Mukul G. Asher 6. The Rule of Law and Governance in East Asia Kanishka Jawasuriya 7. Social Movement Unionism in East Asia? Regional and South Korean Union Responses to the Crisis Patricia Ranald 8. Capitalism in East Asia: The Political Economy of Business Organisation in Japan, Korea and China Mark Beeson and Leong Liew Part II. Organisations 9. The ASEAN Regional Forum: Material and Ideational Dynamics Cameron J. Hill and William T. Tow 10. ASEAN: The Challenges of Organisational Reinvention Mark Beeson 11. The Asian Development Bank: Time to Wind It Up? Edward J. Lincoln 12. Institutional Evolution at the Trans-Regional Level: APEC and the Promotion of Liberalisation John Ravenhill 13. Conclusion: The More Things Change? Path Dependency and Convergence in East Asia Mark Beeson Index

O autorze

Mark Beeson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Asian and International Studies, Griffith University. His research interests are centred on the way globalisation has affected the political economy of the broadly conceived Asia-Pacific region.