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Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia Governance and Institutions
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