ASIAN REGIONALISM Flashcards
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.
Regionalism
____________ 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)
Regions
Regionalization and regionalism should be interchanged. (T or F)
False (not)
refers to “regional concentration of economic flows”
Regionalization
a “political process characterized by economic policy cooperation and coordination among countries”
Regionalism
refer to the regions of East (Northeast) Asia, South Asia, the Pacific Islands, and South East Asia.
Asia Pacific and South Asia
Asia Pacific and South Asia includes some of the world’s most economically developed states such as
Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, and highly impoverished countries such as Cambodia, Laos, and Nepal.
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 _________
China and India, Maldives and Bhutan
has emerged over the past decade as a new force in the world.
Asia and South Pacific
A foreign policy shift called “_________ _______” was implemented by the United States to commit more resources and attention to the region.
Pacific Pivot
Pacific Pivot which is also called “_______ _______” was termed “Pacific Century” by US Secretary of States ________ ________.
Atlantic Century, Hilary Clinton
Globalization in the Asia Pacific and South Asia is a phenomenon being pushed into the region by world powers like _____ and _________.
Us and Europe
was the CENTRAL GLOBAL FORCE in the early modern world economy.
Asia
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.
Asia
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)
False (Japan)
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?
China
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.
China
What country had opened-up and emphasized an export-oriented strategy?
India
__________ and low wage sectors have been a key part of the economy with highly successful software development exports.
Textiles
It also plays a key role in global service provisions as trends in outsourcing.
India
become a major source of international migrant labor.
India and China
This includes the migration of highly skilled labor into the high-tech industry based in Silicon Valley.
India and China
home to many start-up and global technology companies like Apple, Facebook and Google
Silicon Valley
were three of the top four recipient states of migrant remittances.
India, China and the Philippines
in Asia Pacific and South Asia aims to develop and maintain COOPERATION with outside actors
Open Regionalism
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)
True
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)
True
the regional and global rise of Korean popular culture called
“K-Wave”
serves as the source of many aspects of globalization process which can be seen in history, economy, political structure and culture.
Asia Pacific and South Asia
entails complex and dynamic interactions between and among governmental and nongovernmental actors which resulted to hybrid East Asia
Regionalization
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.
middle-classes
occupies DIFFERENT POSITIONS in their respective societies as well as in relation to their nation-states as they constitute the expanding regional consumer market.
middle-class
The product of regional economic development in the post war era are the ___________ in east Asia
middle classes
Regional economic development took place within the context of the American informal empire in “________ ______”
Free Asia
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
First Wave
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
Second Wave
Middle class formation in Southeast Asia was driven by global and regional transnational capitalism (regional trade).
Third wave
New urban middle classes in Southeast Asia have created their own new lifestyles commensurate with their middle-class income and status. (T or F)
True
New urban middle classes emerged in the post _______ Philippines.
1986
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.
New urban middle classes
Middle classes are just a small portion of the constituents of the state (T or F)
False
Middle classes are product of regional economic development (T or F)
True
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)
False (complex ways)
____________ ________ middle classes also exemplify the diversity and complexity of class formation.
Southeast Asian
______________ middle classes are clear socially, hegemonic culturally, and ascend politically.
Thai
_______ and _______middle classes are socially divided, dependent on the state, politically assertive and vulnerable.
Malaysian and Indonesian
________ middle classes are socially coherent, less dependent on the state, culturally ascendant, but politically indecisive.
Philippine
