Journal of East Asian Studies articles from September 2006

Journal of East Asian Studies archives from September 2006

Does economic integration across the Taiwan strait make military conflict less likely?
September 1, 2006... Deepening economic ties across the Taiwan Strait are widely believed by analysts and scholars to be a stabilizing force in cross-Strait political relations. Yet within the broader international relations literature, the relationship between...

Economics versus security in cross-strait relations: a comment on Kastner.(Scott Kastner)(Viewpoint essay)
September 1, 2006... The Taiwan Strait conflict is an important case for testing the interaction between economics and security. The economic ties between Mainland China and Taiwan are close and are getting closer, however one measures them. At the same time, the...

The economics of cross-strait relations: a reply to Ming Wan.
September 1, 2006... Liberal international relations theory generates optimism about the effects of increasing economic integration on the prospects for peace and a reduction of conflict. The purpose of this essay was to consider three different causal processes,...

East Asian financial regionalism in support of the global financial architecture? The political economy of regional nesting.
September 1, 2006... East Asian financial regionalism has advanced significantly since the rejection of Japan's Asian Monetary Fund proposal in 1997. Key ASEAN+3 initiatives include the Chiang Mai Initiative, which is designed to provide emergency liquidity to...

Party fabrication: constitutional reform and the rise of Thai Rak Thai.
September 1, 2006... Among the most interesting questions in Thai politics today is how to account for the rise and (until recently) the success of Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai party. This article describes and analyzes some of the factors that...

Financial reform, institutional interdependency, and supervisory failure in postcrisis Korea.
September 1, 2006... In the aftermath of the economic crisis of 1997-1998, South Korea undertook a number of reforms in financial supervision. Questions have been raised, however, as to whether Korea has in fact succeeded in creating a system of financial...

Dragon dust: atmospheric science and cooperation on desertification in the Asia and Pacific region.
September 1, 2006... Are scientific or nonscientific factors most influential in initiating international cooperation on newly emerging transboundary environmental problems in the Asia and Pacific region? In a case study of long-range atmospheric transport of dust,...

Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space.
September 1, 2006... Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004. 528 pp. $35.95. Paper. As the scholarly and political attention on civil society...

Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power. By Alexis Dudden. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. 232 pp. $45.00. Cloth. Despite widening historical distance, the controversy surrounding Japan's colonial rule over Korea...

Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Marketplace.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Marketplace. By Pun Ngai. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 227 pp. $79.95, cloth; $22.95, paper. China's rapid emergence as the world's leading industrial workshop has dramatically...

A Political Explanation of Economic Growth: State Survival, Bureaucratic Politics, and Private Enterprises in the Making of Taiwan's Economy, 1950-1985.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... A Political Explanation of Economic Growth: State Survival, Bureaucratic Politics, and Private Enterprises in the Making of Taiwan's Economy, 1950-1985. By Yongping Wu. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center. 410 pp. $49.50. Cloth. ...

A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism. By Suisheng Zhao. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 355 pp. $24.95. Paper. The literature on Chinese nationalism has grown rapidly since the end of the Cold...