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Continent, coast, ocean : dynamics of regionalism in Eastern Asia -- Contents -- Foreword -- The Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One: Putting Japanese Imperial History to Rest -- 1. The Success of Japan's Multi-Directional Diplomacy in Modern Times -- 2. War Memories and Japan's Relations with East Asian Countries -- Part Two: The Economics of Regional Integration -- 3. Myths and Miracles of Economic Development in East Asia: Policy Lessons for Malaysia in the Twenty-first Century -- 4. Towards a New Paradigm in East Asian Economic Studies* -- Part Three: Inter-Regionalism and Regionalism -- 5. Alliance and Arms: A Study of the Change in U.S. Arms Transfer to East Asian Allies, 1950–2001* -- 6. A Multicultural European Union and Its Implications for Asia -- 7. The Future Prospects of Multilateralism in Southeast and East Asia -- 8. The Historical and Cultural Legacy of Relations between Southeast Asia and East Asia, with Special Reference to Malaysia -- Part Four: New Knowledge, New Problems, New Solutions -- 9. Reinventing Traditional Values for Our Future: A Malaysian Organizational Response -- 10. The Dynamic Growth Order in East and Southeast Asia: Strategic Challenges and Prospects in the Post-9/11 Era -- 11. Islam in Asia: The Way Ahead -- Index.

This collection of articles takes a long look at the dynamics of regionalism in Eastern Asia and shows how although the past limits the future, its hold on our possibilities for peaceful coexistence is not as strong as we think. What makes this volume unique is that Taiwanese scholars are brought together with Malaysian scholars to discuss a subject that is vital to the future of both East and Southeast Asians.Japan's diplomatic history as well as the heritage of its conquest of Eastern Asia is examined alongside China's cultural geography, paradigmatic dynamics, and intra-regional economics. Ties between East Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as the influence of American military power and European integration are also thoroughly dealt with. The end result is that the reader is offered multidisciplinary perspectives on present and future regional trends

Why have Asia's many projects in regionalism not been able to realize their stated goals, despite the fecundity of, and enthusiasm for, region-building initiatives over the last two decades? In an attempt to answer this question, this article identifies the pursuit of a holistic regionalism embodied in the desire for a regional community as a persistent goal in official discourse, and argues that an apparent state of frustration describes the difficulty of regional institutions and forums in bridging the growing gap between these articulated goals and actual outcomes. The empirical case for the argument here is provided by the founding of the East Asia Summit in 2005, which has disclosed the limits of both exclusive and inclusive models of regionalism in Asia. In exploring causation, the article argues that both structural and agential factors are at the heart of this problem. The tensions thrown up by the competing processes of realist and liberal-institutionalist order-building in Asia have imposed structural constraints on the ability of regional projects to realize their normative aspirations. Equally important in causing this state of frustration are the agents of regionalism - in particular, regional elites - who articulated the goal of a regional "Community" to propel regional projects, and have set the bar above the current capacities of regional institutions. (Contemp Southeast Asia/GIGA)

The US, China and Japan are often portrayed as three giant states dominating the region of East Asia in perpetual potential conflict. This article proposes that such assessments should be tempered in the light of changing regional and global dynamics and, in particular, in view of the growing centrality of the region of East Asia itself for foreign policy agendas. Adopting a framework underpinned by the concept of strategic regionalism, this article focuses upon the developing collective identification of region, and assesses the possibility for joint leadership in East Asia.

East Asia : between regionalism and globalism -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- The Contributors -- 1. Regionalism in East Asia: Development in Stages -- 2. Economic Cooperation in East Asia: Main Directions, Dynamics, and Scale -- 3. Foreign Economic Strategy of China -- 4. ASEAN and East Asia -- 5. Regional Economic Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Issues and Prospects -- 6. The United States and a New Stage of Economic Cooperation in East Asia -- 7. Russia's National Interests and East Asian Regional Economic Cooperation -- Index.

What will the future of East Asia be like in the years ahead? More than a decade after the end of the Cold War, we are still confronted with the fundamental question of whether a new world order will be shaped primarily by state, regional, or global forces and actors. This great puzzle of both theoretical and real-world significance has been widely debated among scholars and policy pundits of diverse normative and theoretical orientations, only to generate many competing explanations and prognostications.