Abstract The East Asian economy is ripe for a shift toward regional integration in response to the rise of the Chinese economy and developing regionalism…
Topic: Political Economy
Introduction Since the relationship between economics and security diverse and complex, their causal nature is often contested. Thus, it is not easy to elucidate where…
Introduction Interest in regional financial cooperation in East Asia has increased dramatically since the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis in July 1997. East Asian…
Abstract The Asian currency crisis of 1997 awakened keen interests in regional monetary and financial cooperation in Asia. Since then, academic debates and policy dialogues…
Introduction The Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) has gradually become one of issues at stake among Northeast Asian Countries since the currency crisis of 1997. Different…
Introduction From the early 1960s to the mid-1990s, South Korea enjoyed a phenomenal average annual growth rate of 6.6 percent. (Root 1999) However, the growth…
Introduction For the 40 years from 1949 to 1989, Sino-Soviet-US relations strongly influenced the political, economic, and security structure of East Asia. Today, though Beijing,…
Introduction In the 20th century, Europe and Asia have been major arenas for two world wars and nearly fifty years of Cold War. Along with…
Introduction For the purpose of this discussion northeast Asia is assumed to incorporate the People’s Republic of China, the Republic China (Taiwan), the Democratic People’s…
Introduction In the fifth ASEAN+three (ten nations belonging to the Association of South-East Asian Nations plus Korea, Japan and China) meeting held in Brunei in…
Abstract There are three major reasons why the emerging East Asian market economies need to cooperate in order to coordinate their exchange rate policies. First,…
Introduction The World Trade Organization (WTO) came into force on January 1995 succeeding the General Agreements on Tariffs Trade (GATT 1948). Dozens of new membership…
Summary Yu Zheng challenges the idea that democracy is the prerequisite for developing countries to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and promote economic growth. He…
Abstract This article examines the impact of US monetary policy as the world dominant monetary policy on the global crude oil prices and investigates the…
Abstract Two analytical perspectives – conventional wisdom derived from warlordism and European colonialism, and soft-power concepts drawn from post-Cold-War American international relations – are prevalent…
