1st Edition

Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia Governance and Institutions

Edited By Helen E. Nesadurai Copyright 2006
    282 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    288 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    What is the relationship between globalization and economic security? Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia is an incisive new engagement with this important question that uses detailed conceptual exploration and fresh empirical analysis.

    Viewing traditional neorealist conceptions of economic security as overly narrow, this new study suggests that any conception of economic security in the contemporary era needs to also pay close attention to the nature of global capitalism, and the insecurities it generates for societies and individuals.

    This uniquely open-ended approach to conceptualizing economic security is supported by the East Asian experience. The country case studies included here reveal that while economic security has largely been posed as one of ensuring sustainable economic growth and equitable social development, particularly following the 1997 to 1998 Asian financial crisis, other, more realist conceptions of economic security have not become irrelevant. This is also an exploration of whether and how national, regional and multilateral institutions, as well as non-state regional mechanisms, help policy makers meet the task of governing in the interests of economic security.

    This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of international relations, international political economy of East Asia globalization and security studies.

    Contributors

    Foreword

    Acknowledgements

    Abbreviations

    PART 1

    ECONOMIC SECURITY AND GLOBALISATION: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES

    1. Conceptualising Economic Security in an Era of Globalisation: What Does the East Asian Experience Reveal?

    Helen E. S. Nesadurai

    2. Economic Security in an Era of Globalisation: Definition and Provision

    Miles Kahler

    PART 2

    EAST ASIAN COUNTRY RESPONSES TO ECONOMIC (IN)SECURITY

    3. Crafting Thailand’s New Social Contract

    Kevin Hewison

    4. China Confronts Globalisation: Conceptualising Economic Security and Governance

    Wang Zhengyi

    5. Institutional Capacity and Singapore’s Developmental State: Managing Economic (In)Security in the Global Economy

    Henry Wai-Chung Yeung

    6. Globalisation, Economic Security and Governance: The Case of Indonesia

    Kurnya Roesad

    7. Taiwan’s Economic Security: Confronting the Dual Trends of Globalisation and Governance

    Chyungly Lee

    8. Vietnam’s Economic Security

    Pham Cao Phong

    PART 3

    GOVERNANCE BEYOND THE STATE

    9. The Limits to Multilateral Economic Governance

    Richard Higgott

    10. Does Hegemony Still Matter? Revisiting Regime Formation in the Asia-Pacific

    Mark Beeson

    11. Track 1/Track 2 Symbiosis in Asia Pacific Regionalism

    Charles E. Morrison

    12. Non-State Regional Governance Mechanisms for Economic Security: The Case of the ASEAN People’s Assembly

    Mely Caballero-Anthony

    13. Japan, East Asian Regionalism and the Politics of Human Security

    Hiro Katsumata

    Biography

    Helen E. Nesadurai