Asianisation of Asia, the focus of this book, signifies the synchronous development of Asian regionalism and regionalisation, in the wake of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. The author probes the interactive processes of Asianisation from political, economic, historical and social perspectives to reveal how an East Asian identity has been constituted and consolidated at the expense of its Asian-Pacific counterpart.
The chief objective of this book is to explore the tension between the political and economic forces of globalisation on the one hand, and the resurgence of regional...