Reconfiguring East Asia: Regional Institutions and Organizations After the Crisis

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Mark Beeson
Psychology Press, 2002 - History - 270 pages
Focuses both on specific regional organizations like ASEAN, The Asian Development Bank and APEC, as well as on key institutions such as East Asian legal systems, the media, organized labour, Asian business systems, and the developmental state.

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Contents

Developmental States in Crisis
31
Midwife to a Movement?
49
The Implications of the Asian Crisis for Media Control in Asia
61
Social Security Institutions in Southeast Asia after the Crisis
83
The Rule of Law and Governance in East Asia
99
Social Movement Unionism in East Asia?
136
Material and Ideational Dynamics
161
The Challenges of Organisational Reinvention
185
Time to Wind It Up?
205
The More Things Change ? Path Dependency
247
Index
259
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Mark Beeson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Asian and International Studies, Griffith University. His research interests are centred on the way globalisation has affected the political economy of the broadly conceived Asia-Pacific region.

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