Reconfiguring East Asia

Mark Beeson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Asian and International Studies, Griffith University. His research interests are centred on the way globalisation has affected the political economy of the broadly conceived Asia-Pacific region.

• Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables Introduction 1. Theorising Institutional Change in East Asia Mark Beeson Part I. Institutions 2. Developmental States in Crisis S. Javed Maswood 3. The East Asian Financial Crisis: Midwife to a Movement? Nicola Bullard 4. The Implications of the Asian Crisis for Media Control in Asia Gary Roddan 5. Social Security Institutions in Southeast Asia after the Crisis Mukul G. Asher 6. The Rule of Law and Governance in East Asia Kanishka Jawasuriya 7. Social Movement Unionism in East Asia? Regional and South Korean Union Responses to the Crisis Patricia Ranald 8. Capitalism in East Asia: The Political Economy of Business Organisation in Japan, Korea and China Mark Beeson and Leong Liew Part II. Organisations 9. The ASEAN Regional Forum: Material and Ideational Dynamics Cameron J. Hill and William T. Tow 10. ASEAN: The Challenges of Organisational Reinvention Mark Beeson 11. The Asian Development Bank: Time to Wind It Up? Edward J. Lincoln 12. Institutional Evolution at the Trans-Regional Level: APEC and the Promotion of Liberalisation John Ravenhill 13. Conclusion: The More Things Change? Path Dependency and Convergence in East Asia Mark Beeson Index

'It serves as an ideal text not only for Asia Pacific regional studies but for those analysts who seek a deeper understanding the implications of globalsiation and forms of capitalist political and economic regulation.' - Australian Journal of International Affairs'As a study on ideas and institutional evolution, as much as on East Asia, the volume is a powerful argument for considering how the past constrains the present, how local ideas and institutions ensure that the effects of even hegemonic forces will not be uniform, and how heterogeneity will remain a persistent feature fo global politics.' - The Journal of Asian Studies