Contesting International Society in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contesting International Society in East Asia write by Barry Buzan. This book was released on 2014-10-16. Contesting International Society in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book asks whether a regional international society exists in East Asia and why its existence matters to both regional and global orders.
Contesting International Society in East Asia
Contesting International Society in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contesting International Society in East Asia write by Barry Buzan. This book was released on 2014-10-16. Contesting International Society in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together some of the most innovative scholars in both the English School of international relations and East Asian studies, this volume investigates whether or not significant and distinct international social structures exist at the regional level represented by 'East Asia', and what this can tell us about international society both regionally and globally. The book's main finding is that the regional dispute over how its states and peoples should relate to the Western-dominated global international society makes the existence of East Asian international society essentially contested. While this regional-global social dynamic is present in many regions, it is particularly strong in East Asia. This book will appeal to audiences interested in developing English School theory, the study of East Asian international relations and comparative regionalism.
Contested Citizenship in East Asia
Contested Citizenship in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contested Citizenship in East Asia write by Kyung-Sup Chang. This book was released on 2012-03-22. Contested Citizenship in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theories of citizenship from the West – pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall – provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history. The Marshallian trajectory – juridical, political and social rights – was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about liberalism and citizenship among intellectuals in Japan and China was eventually stifled by war, colonialism and authoritarian governments (both nationalist and communist). Subsequent attempts to import western-style democratic values and citizenship were to a large extent failures. Social rights have rarely been systematically incorporated into the political ideology and administrative framework of ruling governments. In reality, the predominant concern of both the state elite and the ordinary citizens was economic development and a modicum of material well-being rather than civil liberties. The developmental state and its politics take precedence in the everyday political process of most East Asian societies. These essays provide a systematic and comparative account of the tensions between rapid economic growth and citizenship, and the ways in which those tensions are played out in civil society.
Sovereignty and Status in East Asian International Relations
Sovereignty and Status in East Asian International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sovereignty and Status in East Asian International Relations write by Seo-Hyun Park. This book was released on 2017-05-11. Sovereignty and Status in East Asian International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of a key concept in East Asian security debates, sovereign autonomy, and how it reproduces hierarchy in the regional order. Park argues that contemporary strategic debates in East Asia are based on shared contextual knowledge - that of international hierarchy - reconstructed in the late-nineteenth century. The mechanism that reproduces this lens of hierarchy is domestic legitimacy politics in which embattled political leaders contest the meaning of sovereign autonomy. Park argues that the idea of status seeking has remained embedded in the concept of sovereign autonomy and endures through distinct and alternative security frames that continue to inform contemporary strategic debates in East Asia. This book makes a significant contribution to debates in international relations theory and security studies about autonomy and status, as well as to the now extensive literature on the nature of East Asian regional order.
East Asian Social Movements
East Asian Social Movements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East Asian Social Movements write by Jeffrey Broadbent. This book was released on 2010-12-15. East Asian Social Movements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the study of civil society and social movements, most cases are based in Western Europe and North America. These two areas of the world have similar histories and political ideals and structures in common which in turn, affect the structure of its civil society. In studying civil society in Asia, a different understanding of history, politics, and society is needed. The region’s long traditions of centralized, authoritarian states buttressed by Confucian and in some cases Communist ideologies may render this concept irrelevant. The chapters in this international volume cover most of the areas and countries traditionally defined as belonging to East Asia: Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and China. The case studies included in this volume confront the utility of using the Western concept of civil society, represented in its most active form – social movements – to think about East Asia popular politics. Along with providing an array of important case studies of social movements in East Asia, the introduction, chapters and conclusion in the book take up three major theoretical questions: the effect of the East Asian cultural, social and institutional context upon the mobilization, activities and outcomes of social movements in that region, the role of social movements in larger transformative processes, utility of Western social movement concepts in explaining social movements in East Asia. This book will be of interest to two major groups of readers, those who study East Asia and those who pursue social movements and civil society, as well as politics more generally.
