Political and Economic Transition in East Asia

<p>The book examines the political and economic developments in East Asia since the end of the Cold War in an attempt to identify a broad pattern of transition, particularly in terms of the reshaping of the state's relations with forces and institutions in economy, politics and domestic- international interactions. The chapters are organised into three parts: I: The state in the new economy; II: The state in the new politics; III: The state in the new global environment. The contributors find a general pattern of the state's withdrawal from these three areas. But it is not simply that the market takes over, as some envisaged. Instead, the transition is moving towards a set of governance-producing arrangements in which the role of both the market and the state are appreciated. The book concludes that a more sophisticated approach is needed to the problems of development vs. governance, the state vs. the market, and global dynamics vs. national interests, for a better understanding of the dynamic transition and the consequent new political economy in East Asia.</p> Preface IntroductionBetween the State and the Market: The Problem of Transition in East AsiaXiaoming Huang Part I The New Market Conditions Market Liberalisation and the Problem of Governance in South KoreaKwan S. Kim Insitutional Adaptation Under Pressure: China's Changing Economic EnvironmentShiping Zheng Part II The New Political ConditionsChina's Aimless StatePeter Harris The Japanese State: Surviving Neoliberal Political EconomySeiji Endo Part III The New State-Market Nexus Contested State and Competitive State: Managing the Economy in a Democratic TaiwanXiaoming Huang Macroeconomic Dilemmas and Alternative State Strategies: The Post-Developmental State of TaiwanStephen P. Green Part IV The New Global Conditions Global Dynamics and the Insitutional Flaws of East Asian GovernanceChristopher Lingle Global Capitalism in Crisis: The East Asian Problem in a Wider ContextHarry D. Shutt Conclusion Beyond the State and the Market: The Primacy of Human InterestXiaoming Huang AppendixesBibliographyIndex