Asian Designs: Governance in the Contemporary World Order (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) - Softcover

Pekkanen, Saadia M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501700529 ISBN 13: 9781501700521

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Asian nations are no longer "rising" powers in the world order; they have risen. How will they conduct themselves in world politics? How will they deploy their considerable and growing power individually and collectively? These questions are critical for global governance. Conventional wisdom claims that, lacking in institutions that accumulate and coordinate the massive economic and growing military strength of Asian nations, the Asian region will continue to punch below its weight in world politics; thin and patchy institutionalization results in political weakness. In Asian Designs, Saadia M. Pekkanen and her collaborators question and provide evidence on these core assumptions of Western scholarship. The book advances a new framework for debate and sophisticated examinations of institutional arrangements for several major issue areas in the world order―security, trade, environment, and public health.

About this title

About the Author:

Saadia M. Pekkanen is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor and Associate Director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Picking Winners? From Technology Catch-up to the Space Race in Japan and Japan’s Aggressive Legalism: Law and Foreign Trade Politics Beyond the WTO, coauthor of In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy, and coeditor of Japan and China in the World Political Economy and most recently of The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia.

Review:

"I am impressed by Asian Designs and would highly recommend it to scholars and students of Asian regionalism. Well written, the entire collection moves along smoothly and comes to an articulate and satisfying conclusion, with informed suggestions for future research. Instead of offering a reiteration of existing knowledge, it offers new insights and evidence into explaining current forms of Asian governance and makes valuable steps toward understanding and predicting future governing forms."

(Erin Zimmerman H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews)

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1501700529
• ISBN 13: 9781501700521
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400