1st Edition

How Weak Regionalism in East Asia Works Well Beyond the Flying Geese Model

By Luna Ge Lai Copyright 2025
220 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book investigates the reasons why regionalism in East Asia has been much weaker than in Western Europe and North America. It focuses particularly on economic factors, examining the regional and global linkages of production networks. Through a focused exploration of regional and global production networks, it argues that East Asia was not as regionally concentrated as was Western Europe or... Read more

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Preface

List of Abbreviations 

 

Chapter 1 : Introduction        

Chapter 2 : Structural Forces and East Asian Regionalism  

Chapter 3 : Design and Organization of Empirical Investigation and Analysis         

Chapter 4 : East Asia in the Global Economic Structure      

Chapter 5 : East Asian Economies in Transnational Production Networks        

Chapter 6 : Sectoral Economic Structures and Choices over CP/TPP and RCEP

Chapter 7 : Findings and Implications          

Chapter 8 : Conclusion          

 

Bibliography  

Appendices    

 

Biography

Luna Ge Lai is an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute for International Affairs, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.