Journal of East Asian Studies articles from May 2004

Journal of East Asian Studies archives from May 2004

Regionalism and critical junctures: explaining the "organization gap" in Northeast Asia.
May 1, 2004... Northeast Asia, where the interests of three major nuclear powers and the world's two largest economies mingle around the unstable pivot of the Korean Peninsula, is a region rife with political and economic uncertainties. It is arguably one of...

State preferences and international institutions: Boolean analysis of China's use of force and South China sea territorial disputes.
May 1, 2004... Thanks to supercharged economic growth, coupled with abundant physical and human capital, as well as political clout as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, China is a rising great power, on the world stage. Whereas the...

Human security and East Asia: in the beginning.
May 1, 2004... Security is the absence of anxiety upon which the fulfilled life depends. --Cicero In the pantheon of new security concepts debated in East Asia in the past decade, human security is perhaps the most controversial. It is based on the...

Patterns of market polarization and market matching in the Korean film industry.
May 1, 2004... Despite its embedded ambiguity, conventional wisdom tends to prevail over time. This may be because old adages recurrently embrace some ingredients of truth. As James A. Mathisen highlights, conventional wisdom plays a significant role in...

State-technologist Nexus in Taiwan's high-tech policymaking: semiconductor and wireless communications industries.
May 1, 2004... The literature on East Asia's political economies identifies cohesive state bureaucracy and its effective intervention in the market as the key factors that have enabled the East Asian economic miracle and that differentiate the success of East...

Taxation Without Representation in Contemporary Rural China.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Taxation Without Representation in Contemporary Rural China. By Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, cloth. 282 pp. The authors of this book tackle a subject crucial to understanding contemporary...

Korean Endgame: a Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement. By Selig Harrison. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, cloth. 448 pp. As the United States Forces in Korea (USFK) announces its withdrawal from Seoul and the...

Alliance in Anxiety: Detente and the Sino-American-Japanese Triangle.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Alliance in Anxiety: Detente and the Sino-American-Japanese Triangle. By Go Ito. New York: Routledge, 2003, cloth. 162 pp. What was the impact of the so-called Nixon shocks (the U.S. opening to China and Nixon's new economic policy) on...

Fighting Corruption in Asia: Causes, Effects, and Remedies.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Fighting Corruption in Asia: Causes, Effects, and Remedies. Edited by John Kidd and Frank-Jurgen Richter. Singapore: World Scientific, 2003, cloth. 402 pp. Corruption has been a persisting and perennial problem in many Asian countries. The...

The Quality of Life in Korea: Comparative and Dynamic Perspectives.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Quality of Life in Korea: Comparative and Dynamic Perspectives. Edited by Doh Chull Shin, Conrad P. Rutkowski, and Chong-Min Park. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, cloth. 534 pp. There have been growing public...

Books received.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2004... The books listed below were recently received by the editor and are available for review. General Barro, Robert J. 2003. Nothing Is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium. Cambridge: MIT Press. Asia General Abuza,...