A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific

by T. J. Pempel

Overview

A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics—power and prosperity—in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to show radically different paths leading to high growth for many but abject failure for some. T. J. Pempel analyzes policies and data from ten East Asian countries, categorizing them into three distinct regime types, each historically contingent and the product of specific configurations of domestic institutions, socio-economic resources, and external support.

Pempel identifies Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as developmental regimes, showing how each then diverged due to domestic and international forces. North Korea, Myanmar, and the Philippines (under Marcos) comprise "rapacious regimes" in this analysis, while Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand form "ersatz developmental regimes." Uniquely, China emerges as an evolving hybrid of all three regime types. A Region of Regimes concludes by showing how the shifting interactions of these regimes have profoundly shaped the Asia-Pacific region and the globe across the postwar era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501758812
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	09/15/2021
Series:	Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	252
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

T. J. Pempel is the Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author or editor of twenty-four books, including Regime Shift and Two Crises, Different Outcomes.

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART ONE
1. Developmental Regimes: Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
2. Ersatz Developmental Regimes: Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand: Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand
3. Rapacious Regimes: Plunder over Prosperity: Philippines North Korea, Myanmar
PART TWO
4. Developmental Regimes Reconstructed
5. China: Composite Regime?
Conclusion: Regimes and the Regional Order

What People are Saying About This

Evelyn Goh

A Region of Regimes tells the cumulative regional story of East Asia's economic metamorphosis, accounting for both successes and failures, and unpacking vital interconnections among national, global and regional dynamics. Well organized and clearly written, it makes significant contributions to several fields: East Asia's political economy, the economicsecurity nexus in international politics, China's economic power, and US strategies in the Asia-Pacific.

Editorial Reviews

T. J. Pempel, one of our leading scholars on Japan in its regional and international context, has written a wide-ranging book on the political economy of the post-war Asia–Pacific.

The Developing Economies

T.J. Pempel offers a major theoretical and empirical update to [the "East Asia miracle"]. This book will be of great help for readers to grasp East Asia's post-war shared transformation in a theoretically rich perspective.

Global Asia

T. J. Pempel, one of our leading scholars on Japan in its regional and international context, has written a wide-ranging book on the political economy of the post-war Asia-Pacific.

-- "The Developing Economies"

T.J. Pempel offers a major theoretical and empirical update to [the "East Asia miracle"]. This book will be of great help for readers to grasp East Asia's post-war shared transformation in a theoretically rich perspective.

-- "Global Asia"

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