How Weak Regionalism in East Asia Works Well

Beyond the Flying Geese Model
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-61329-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 316 g

Reihe: China Policy Series

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 North America, lacking a regionally oriented productional basis to support the institutional arrangement of East Asia as a stand-alone economic community. Moreover, the regional production networks of each national economy in the region are influenced by a different set of value-added components from different global and regional origins. This divergence in their positions accounts for the mushrooming of divergent initiatives and projects for regional institutional arrangement. Finally, the institutional choices of the states to join Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CP/TPP) and/or Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are found to be strongly influenced by the sectoral focuses and priorities of their economies.

Demonstrating how the unique economic factors of each nation override other considerations for greater regional integration, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of international trade, Asian politics and economics.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ge Lai, Luna

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

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

Über Autor(innen)

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