ASIAN REGIONALISM

Question 1

is an expression of a COMMON SENSE OF IDENTITY and purpose combined with the creation and implementation of institutions that express a particular identity and shape collective action within a geographical region.

Answer 1

Regionalism

Question 2

____________ are “a group of countries located in the same geographically specified area” organized to regulate and “oversee flows and policy choices.” (by Edward D Mansfield and Helen Milner)

Answer 2

Regions

Question 3

Regionalization and regionalism should be interchanged. (T or F)

Answer 3

False (not)

Question 4

refers to “regional concentration of economic flows”

Answer 4

Regionalization

Question 5

a “political process characterized by economic policy cooperation and coordination among countries”

Answer 5

Regionalism

Question 6

refer to the regions of East (Northeast) Asia, South Asia, the Pacific Islands, and South East Asia.

Answer 6

Asia Pacific and South Asia

Question 7

Asia Pacific and South Asia includes some of the world’s most economically developed states such as

Answer 7

Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, and highly impoverished countries such as Cambodia, Laos, and Nepal.

Question 8

Asia Pacific and South Asia includes the largest and most populous states like _______ and ________ and some of the world’s smallest states such as the __________ and _________

Answer 8

China and India, Maldives and Bhutan

Question 9

has emerged over the past decade as a new force in the world.

Answer 9

Asia and South Pacific

Question 10

A foreign policy shift called “_________ _______” was implemented by the United States to commit more resources and attention to the region.

Answer 10

Pacific Pivot

Question 11

Pacific Pivot which is also called “_______ _______” was termed “Pacific Century” by US Secretary of States ________ ________.

Answer 11

Atlantic Century, Hilary Clinton

Question 12

Globalization in the Asia Pacific and South Asia is a phenomenon being pushed into the region by world powers like _____ and _________.

Answer 12

Us and Europe

Question 13

was the CENTRAL GLOBAL FORCE in the early modern world economy.

Answer 13

Asia

Question 14

It was the site of the most important trade routes and in some places more advanced in technology than West such as science and medicine.

Answer 14

Asia

Question 15

China embarked on procuring RAW MATERIALS like coal and iron at unprecedented scale allowing them to gain a competitive edge in the global manufacturing market as well as globalized shipping and procurement patterns which other countries modeled (T or F)

Answer 15

False (Japan)

Question 16

What country pursues similar pattern of development at present and is now the WORLD’s LARGEST IMPORTER of basic raw materials such as iron and surpassed Japan, the US and Europe in steel production?

Answer 16

China

Question 17

It also surpassed the World bank in lending to developing countries. It had an enormous impact on the availability and consumption of goods around the world.

Answer 17

China

Question 18

What country had opened-up and emphasized an export-oriented strategy?

Answer 18

India

Question 19

__________ and low wage sectors have been a key part of the economy with highly successful software development exports.

Answer 19

Textiles

Question 20

It also plays a key role in global service provisions as trends in outsourcing.

Answer 20

India

Question 21

become a major source of international migrant labor.

Answer 21

India and China

Question 22

This includes the migration of highly skilled labor into the high-tech industry based in Silicon Valley.

Answer 22

India and China

Question 23

home to many start-up and global technology companies like Apple, Facebook and Google

Answer 23

Silicon Valley

Question 24

were three of the top four recipient states of migrant remittances.

Answer 24

India, China and the Philippines

Question 25

in Asia Pacific and South Asia aims to develop and maintain COOPERATION with outside actors

Answer 25

Open Regionalism

Question 26

Open regionalism is meant to resolve the tension between the rise of regional trade agreements and the push for global trade as embodied by World Trade Organization (WTO), the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. (T or F)

Answer 26

True

Question 27

In culture and globalization, the source of a wide variety of cultural phenomena that have spread outward to the West and the rest of the world is in the region. (T or F)

Answer 27

True

Question 28

the regional and global rise of Korean popular culture called

Answer 28

“K-Wave”

Question 29

serves as the source of many aspects of globalization process which can be seen in history, economy, political structure and culture.

Answer 29

Asia Pacific and South Asia

Question 30

entails complex and dynamic interactions between and among governmental and nongovernmental actors which resulted to hybrid East Asia

Answer 30

Regionalization

Question 31

This nurtured sizeable ________ _________ that share a lot in common in terms of professional lives and their lifestyles, in fashion, leisure, and entertainment, in their aspirations and dreams.

Answer 31

middle-classes

Question 32

occupies DIFFERENT POSITIONS in their respective societies as well as in relation to their nation-states as they constitute the expanding regional consumer market.

Answer 32

middle-class

Question 33

The product of regional economic development in the post war era are the ___________ in east Asia

Answer 33

middle classes

Question 34

Regional economic development took place within the context of the American informal empire in “________ ______”

Answer 34

Free Asia

Question 35

took place in japan from mid 1950’s to the early 1970s and led to the emergence of a middle-class by the early 1970s

Answer 35

First Wave

Question 36

took place between the 1960s and 1980s in South Korea, Taiwan, Hongkong and Singapore and led to the formation of middle-class societies in these countries by the 1980s

Answer 36

Second Wave

Question 37

Middle class formation in Southeast Asia was driven by global and regional transnational capitalism (regional trade).

Answer 37

Third wave

Question 38

New urban middle classes in Southeast Asia have created their own new lifestyles commensurate with their middle-class income and status. (T or F)

Answer 38

True

Question 39

New urban middle classes emerged in the post _______ Philippines.

Answer 39

1986

Question 40

They were created through growth in retail trade, manufacturing, banking, real estate development, and an expanding range of specialist services such as accounting, advertising, computing, and market research.

Answer 40

New urban middle classes

Question 41

Middle classes are just a small portion of the constituents of the state (T or F)

Answer 41

False

Question 42

Middle classes are product of regional economic development (T or F)

Answer 42

True

Question 43

Middle class lifestyles have been shaped in very simple ways by their appropriation of things. American, Japanese, Chinese, South Korean, Islamic and other ways of life, often mediated by the market. (T or F)

Answer 43

False (complex ways)

Question 44

____________ ________ middle classes also exemplify the diversity and complexity of class formation.

Answer 44

Southeast Asian

Question 45

______________ middle classes are clear socially, hegemonic culturally, and ascend politically.

Answer 45

Thai

Question 46

_______ and _______middle classes are socially divided, dependent on the state, politically assertive and vulnerable.

Answer 46

Malaysian and Indonesian

Question 47

________ middle classes are socially coherent, less dependent on the state, culturally ascendant, but politically indecisive.

Answer 47

Philippine