Asian Designs: Governance in the Contemporary World Order

Saadia M. Pekkanen

Published by Cornell University Press 2016

Asian Designs

Governance in the Contemporary World Order

Saadia M. Pekkanen

In the series Cornell Studies in Political Economy

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501706226

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About this book

Asian nations are no longer "rising" powers in the world order; they have risen. How will they conduct themselves in world politics? How will they deploy their considerable and growing power individually and collectively? These questions are critical for global governance. Conventional wisdom claims that, lacking in institutions that accumulate and coordinate the massive economic and growing military strength of Asian nations, the Asian region will continue to punch below its weight in world politics; thin and patchy institutionalization results in political weakness. In Asian Designs, Saadia M. Pekkanen and her collaborators question and provide evidence on these core assumptions of Western scholarship. The book advances a new framework for debate and sophisticated examinations of institutional arrangements for several major issue areas in the world order—security, trade, environment, and public health.Contributors
Vinod K. Aggarwal, University of California at Berkeley
C. Randall Henning, American University
Keisuke Iida, University of Tokyo
Purnendra Jain, University of Adelaide
David Kang, University of Southern California
Saori N. Katada, University of Southern California
Min Gyo Koo, Seoul National University
Kerstin Lukner, University of Duisburg-Essen
Takamichi Tam Mito, Kwansei Gakuin University
James Clay Moltz, Naval Postgraduate School
Saadia M. Pekkanen, University of Washington
Kim DoHyang Reimann, Georgia State University
Kellee S. Tsai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Ming Wan, George Mason University

Author / Editor information

Pekkanen Saadia :

Saadia M. Pekkanen is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor and Associate Director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Picking Winners? From Technology Catch-up to the Space Race in Japan and Japan’s Aggressive Legalism: Law and Foreign Trade Politics Beyond the WTO, coauthor of In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy, and coeditor of Japan and China in the World Political Economy and most recently of The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia.

Reviews

Richard Stubbs, McMaster University, author of Rethinking Asia's Economic Miracle:

"Asian Designs brings a good deal of order to our analyses of external institutions in the Asian region. Through an array of case studies that bring focus to and display new insights into their topics, it makes an impressive contribution to the institutional design literature."

Erin Zimmerman:

"I am impressed by Asian Designs and would highly recommend it to scholars and students of Asian regionalism. Well written, the entire collection moves along smoothly and comes to an articulate and satisfying conclusion, with informed suggestions for future research. Instead of offering a reiteration of existing knowledge, it offers new insights and evidence into explaining current forms of Asian governance and makes valuable steps toward understanding and predicting future governing forms."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Figures and Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
1. Introduction: Agents of Design Saadia M. Pekkanen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Design of Economics-Related Institutions
2. Designing Trade Institutions for Asia Vinod K. Aggarwal and Min Gyo Koo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3. Cooperation without Institutions: The Case of East Asian Currency Arrangements C. Randall Henning and Saori N. Katada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. The External Is Incidental: Asia’s SWFs and the Shaping of the Santiago Principles Saadia M. Pekkanen and Kellee S Tsai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Part II. Design of Security-Related Institutions
5. Nuclear WMD Regimes in East Asia: PSI, Six-Party Talks, and the 1994 Agreed Framework David C. Kang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
6. Asian Space Rivalry and Cooperative Institutions: Mind the Gap James Clay Moltz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
7. The Institutionalization of Energy Cooperation in Asia Purnendra Jain and Takamichi Mito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Part III. Design of Human Security-Related Institutions
8. Human Rights Institutions in Asia Keisuke Iida and Ming Wan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
9. The Institutional Response to Infectious Diseases in Asia Kerstin Lukner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
10. Testing the Waters (and Soil): The Emergence of Institutions for Regional Environmental Governance in East Asia Kim DoHyang Reimann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
11. Conclusion: The Imperfect Struggles Saadia M. Pekkanen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Appendix A: ASIABASE-1 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Appendix B: Membership in Principal Specific Institutions by Country/Region Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 400
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Other: 1 map, 12 tables, 9 charts
Keywords: Institutions of Asia; institutional design literature; world politics; economic strength; military strength; international studies

eBook

Published: September 20, 2016
ISBN: 9781501706226