East Asian Studies in the Perspective of Regional Integration

East Asia is now experiencing significant economic growth and social change. Integration of East Asia seems an irresistible trend, as East Asian countries are closely interdependent with each other and share many common interests in economic development. This book analyzes the cooperation and challenges of East Asian countries in the process of integration. It includes 15 chapters in four sections. The first section discusses the impact of East Asia cooperation and economic integration. The second section emphasizes the election of political leadership in East Asia. The third section covers the topics of East Asian cultural identity, history and norms. The fourth section studies the relationship between East Asia and the World. The chapters are selected from two Trilateral symposia held in Seoul and Shanghai in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The Symposia offer comprehensive and diversified views of scholars from China, Korea and Japan.
Contents:East Asian Cooperation and Its Economic Integration:Sino-Japanese Cooperation in Economic Integration of East Asia (Zhang Jian)East Asian Regionalism: Issues and Visions (Hong Pyo Lee)Regional Cooperation and Technology Transfer in East Asia: The Case of Myanmar (Yuri Sadoi)The Influence of Japanese Social Ideological Trends Upon East Asia Cooperation (Jiang Xudong)Election of Political Leadership in East Asia:Heredity, Election, and Leadership in Northeast Asia: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Political Process (Hiroki Miura)Chinese Political Leadership Transition: An Overview and Assessment (Wu Xinbo & Wu Di)What Makes Hereditary Politicians an Issue in Japan? (Kwangwook Kim)Reassessing Incumbency Advantage in Korean Politics: An Evidence from Korean General Elections Since 2000 (Yeawon Kim)The Endurance of Political Family in the Philippines: Hereditary Election (Yoko Yoshikawa)East Asian Cultural Indentity, History, and Norms:The Construction of Cultural Identity in East Asia and Confucianism (Bao Xiaqin)Do ICTs Change Citizenship Norms? Technological Determinism vs. Social Determinism (Seongyi Yun)Functional Cooperation and Japan's Cultural Diplomacy: A Case Study of the Preservation of Angkor (He Ping)East Asia and the Global World:The Korea Policy of Truman Administration (1945–1948) (Fang Xiuyu & Li Li)China's Proposing Behavior in Global Governance: The Cases of the WTO Doha Round Negotiation and G-20 Process (Liu Hongsong)Analysis of Trade Commodity Structure and Complementarity of the Regional Cooperation between China and Russia (Kang Chengwen)
Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in East Asian integration.
Economic Integration;Regionalism;Election;Cultural Identity;Global Governance;G2000