Journal of East Asian Studies articles from September 1 2003

Journal of East Asian Studies archives from September 1 2003

The U.S.-China peace: great power politics, spheres of influence, and the peace of East Asia.
September 1, 2003... East Asia in the post-Cold War era has been the world's most peaceful region. Whereas since 1989 there have been major wars in Europe, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and significant and costly civil instability in Latin America,...

Japan's new regionalism: the politics of free trade talks with Mexico.
September 1, 2003... Since late 1998, Japan reversed its exclusive support for the multilateral trade regime and endorsed for the first time bilateral and preferential trade pacts, signing one with Singapore, negotiating another with Mexico, and announcing free...

The birth of a welfare state in Korea: the unfinished symphony of democratization and globalization.
September 1, 2003... Globalization pressured a rebirth of the state in Korea, but in an unexpected direction. Whereas the welfare state retrenched in Western Europe under pressures of the borderless global economy, (1) the Korean state reinvented itself into the...

Institutionalized uncertainty and governance crisis in posthegemonic Taiwan.
September 1, 2003... The Global Wave of Democratic Governance Crises March 20, 2000, constituted a milestone in Taiwan's modern political history. That day its electorate chose as president Chen Shui-bian, the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)...

Legalistic Confucianism and economic development in East Asia.
September 1, 2003... Imagining Modernity Through Tradition One of the fascinating theoretical questions posed by the spread of industrialization and today's nation-state-building process is how these originally Western and quintessentially modern institutions...

Budget review in the National Assembly of democratic Korea.
September 1, 2003... Although Korea has made significant strides to strengthen its democratic system since the successful transition in the late 1980s as part of the "third wave" of global democratization, a look into the process of making budgetary policy in the...

Searching for national identity in Japan and China.(3 books on national identity )(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sun, Lung-Kee. The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to Individuality. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. ISBN 0-7656-0826-x, cloth; 0-7656-0827-8, paperback. Orr, James J. The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National...

Korea's Future and the Great Powers.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Edited by Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard Ellings. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2001. 361 pp. The revelation of North Korea's uranium enrichment program has brought the Korean Peninsula into one of the worst crises of the...

Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Harry Harootunian. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 414 pp. Harootunian's intellectual history introduces a stunning variety of Japanese thinkers grappling in different ways with similar concerns of modernity, tradition,...

Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By David C. Kang. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 204 pp. "How can we reconcile," David Kang asks as his book opens, "the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and...

How Asia Got Rich.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Edith Terry. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. 688 pp. It was Alexander Hamilton who, in the late eighteenth century, first advocated governmental protection for emerging industries in the United States. Today, the U.S. secretary of the...

Books received.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2003... In addition to the titles reviewed in this issue, the books listed below were recently received by the editor and are available for review. Asia: General Cha, Victor D. 1999. Alignment Despite Antagonism: The U.S.-Korea-Japan Security...