表題番号:2014B-447 日付:2015/04/06
研究課題The Rise of State-Led Economic Regionalism in East Asia
研究者所属(当時) 資格 氏名
(代表者) 国際学術院 国際教養学部 准教授 舒 旻
研究成果概要
Focusing on the changing dynamics of domestic and regional political economy in East Asia, this research project seeks to understand the domestic foundation of state-led economic regionalism after the Asian financial crisis (AFC) in 1997-98. The project has two goals: first, to conduct an in-depth analysis of the restructuring of Asian developmental state and the rise of state-led economic regionalism; second, to find out the interactive dynamics between domestic regulatory reforms and regional economic cooperation.

Two case studies were conducted with respect to the post-AFC domestic reforms and regional policy-making in Thailand and South Korea. The case studies show that post-AFC economic regionalism emerged as a regional consensus for very different reasons in the two countries. On the one hand, South Korea aimed to address the regional implications of her globalization strategy. On the other, Thailand was pursuing economic growth shielded from the immediate risk of globalization.

The project makes it possible to chart this important process in post-AFC East Asia. A related paper, entitled 'The EU and Economic Regionalism in East Asia’, was presented at the GR:EEN Workshop on comparative regionalism in Brussels in October 2014.