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Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
T. J. Pempel (Ed.)
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Description for Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
Paperback. Editor(s): Katzenstein, Peter J.; Pempel, T. J. Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Num Pages: 334 pages, 19. BIC Classification: KCL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801489099
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V9780801489099
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About T. J. Pempel (Ed.)
T. J. Pempel is 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 and The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis (both from Cornell). ... Read more
Reviews for Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
"Analyses of regionalism in East Asia frequently oscillate between gleefully negative realist analyses of the primacy of nationalism and breathlessly naïve constructivist assertions of the inevitability of regionalism. By contrast, Remapping East Asia is a thoughtful collection that eschews initial theoretical positions in favor of measured, empirically rich, and theoretically nuanced reflections on the complex and at times contradictory nature ... Read more