Chapter 3: Lesson 2: Asian Regionalism Flashcards
Integration of social relations and consciousness across world-space
Globalization
Societal integration within a region, and often undirected process of social and economic integrations
Regionalization
In terms of scope, globalization is _____
Borderless
Regionalization happens in a specific _____ of the world
Geographical portion
Refers to regional concentration of economic flows
Regionalization
Refers to a political process by economic policy of cooperation and coordination among countries
Regionalism
Factors of greater asian integration
Driven by market
Establishment of formal institutions
Economic grants and overseas development assistance programs
Production networks
The asian bond
ASEAN
As a group, asian responded by establishing _____, different forms of ____ and ____, share information especially on ____, work for achievement of ____
Asian Development Bank, loans and grants, security, ASEAN Declaration
As an individual, Asian responded by ____ and ____ agreements, regional cooperation
Bilateral and multilateral
You can examine the ways of how Japan engages with East Asia by
States, markets and societies
Japan’s security policy can be best understood in terms of _____
Continuity
Changes like corporate restructurings, financial big bang, generational change in political class, etc.
Political stasis
Japanese corporate capital in the electronics industry
Markets
Identifying neuralgic points in the Japanese social body, “soft power”
Societies
Who are the Middle-Class East Asia
New Nationalists (S.K and Taiwan)
Ascendant Middle Classes (Thailand)
Divided and dependent middle class (Malaysia, Indo)
Dispersed Middle class (Philippines)
Regional Implications of Middle-Class Formation
Two Salient points of east asian middle class
- Middle class formation in SEA was driven by transnational capitalism
- New urban middle class
First to have no direct experience of Japanese Colonial Rule and Korean war
New Nationalists (386 generation)
Who will decide for the status quo thai middle-class cultural hegemony?
Thai rak thai
Filipino middle classes have been around for at least __ generations
2