Geopolitics, Supply Chains, and International Relations in East Asia

Etel Solingen is Distinguished Professor and Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and the recipient of the 2018 National Academy of Sciences Estes award. Her book Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East (2007) won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Award for best book, and the ISA's Jervis and Schroeder Award.

• List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: geopolitical shocks and global supply chains Etel Solingen; Part I. Global Supply Chains, Geopolitics, and Trade Wars: 2. Global value chains and the US-China trade war Yuqing Xing; 3. The US-China trade war: implications for Japan's global value chains Hongyong Zhang; 4. Constructing a Chinese ai global supply chain in the shadow of 'great power competition' Victor Shih; 5. Competition and collaboration among East Asian firms in the smartphone supply chains Momoko Kawakami; 6. Hidden economic costs of geopolitical disputes for supply chains in East Asia Kristen Aanstoos; 7. Global supply chains and great power competition in Africa prince Paa-Kwesi Heto; Part II. Domestic Political, Economic, and Social Dimensions of Global Supply Chains: 8. Are global supply chains vital to China's leaders? Nazim Uras Demir and Etel Solingen; 9. Firms fight back: production networks and corporate opposition to the China trade war Jieun Lee and Iain Osgood; 10. Understanding and contesting global supply chains in an era of inequality Erin Lockwood; 11. Why escalate? Cognitive theory and global supply chains in Northeast Asia Phoebe W. Moon; 12. The role of Chinese workers in supply chain campaigns Marissa Brookes; Part III. Postscript on Covid-19: 13. On covid-19, GSCs, and geopolitics Etel Solingen; List of references; Index.

'Once upon a time, trade in goods was conducted in the Ricardian formula of the cloth-wine exchange. A century before Ricardo, Immanuel Kant imagined that with three conditions met, the likelihood of peace would go up: 1) commerce across nations thrives; 2) republican regimes rather than monarchical get predominant; 3) treaties and organizations across nations permeate the earth. Alas, globalization deepening in the new millennium brings about much more complex and uncertain pictures especially in East Asia. Etel Solingen's book has provided tons of exquisite data on global supply chains that with 'trade in tasks' being the mainstay in commerce across nations and across firms, simple geo-politics, single-minded protectionism, and infectious populism, each treated alone, would not be a good answer. A tour de force of Etel Solingen, combining her strength in economics, security studies and East Asian Studies.' Takashi Inoguchi, Oberlin University and University of Tokyo