The Region

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The Region
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Collective Identity in Asia

• Regionalization vs. regionalism?Process vs.
  structure
• Asian values in a multiethnic region?an ingenious
  strategy for collective identity?
• Flying-geese industrial growth to create a stable
  international environment profitable especially
  to Japans highly competitive capital goods
  sector?PAFTA, PECC, APEC ? another strategy for
  collective identity!

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Open Regionalism

• Open regionalism of Asia ? dyadic dependence on
  the U.S. and global interdependence that
  constrains the emergence of an inward-looking
  Asian bloc

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Regional formation

• Regional structure Historically constituted and
  located, or dictated by culture, geographic
  propinquity, religion, language and so on?
• To view the region as hierarchy of space or
  social relations of production as well as a
  hierarchy of states
• Global-local dialectic
• Temporal and spatial patterns of regional
  structure ? node vs. territories
• Power and agency ? Social forces promoting
  globalization and agencies of regionalization

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The State
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Study of political economy of states

• State vs. middle class Repression vs.
  democratization?
• Capitalist development in third-world states
  correlated with the absence of democratization
  and the rise of authoritarianism?
• Depoliticization vs. joining of industry and
  politics

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Intra-regional differences between states

• Degree of state autonomy
• Political consequences of rapid industrialization
• International environment in shaping
  developmental choices
• Legitimizing state rules vs. creating conditions
  for economic growth
• Institutional arrangement to reduce rent-seeking
  and increase international competitiveness

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States role

• Macroeconomic orthodoxy
• Openness
• Equity