Roger Benjamin - The Industrial Future Of The Pacific Basin

The Management of Facific Marine Resources: Present Problems and Future Trends, John P. Craven

Japan and the New Ocean Regime, Robert L. Friedheim, George O. Totten III, Haru Fukui, Tsuneo Akaha, Masayki Takeyama, Mamoru Koga, and Hiroyuki Nakahara

Superships and Nation-States: The Transnational Politics of the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization, Harvey B. Silverstein

Resource Management and the Oceans: The Political Economy of Deep Seabed Mining, Kurt Michael Shusterich

The Politics of Pacific Island Fisheries, George Kent

The Economics of New Technology in Developing Countries, edited by Frances Stewart and Jeffrey James

The Industrial Future of the Pacific Basin

edited by Roger Benjamin and Robert T. Kudrle

The consequences of changing comparative advantage are transforming the economic landscapes of nations and regions around the globe. This book deals with the most significant economic factors in the rapidly changing Pacific Basin area. Part 1 considers the areas changing patterns of industrial development and trade and examines the general implications of such changes for national industrial development policies. Part 2 consists of a set of case studies of national industrial policies in the context of factors affecting industrial structures; how applicable these policies are to other countries in the region is a central theme. Part 3 addresses the specific issues of foreign investment and domestic labor in relation to economic growth and industrial development in the Pacific Basin. Finally, in Part 4 institutional arrangements are suggested that would facilitate economic growth while, at the same time, mitigating the serious negative consequences of changing economic advantage. Such negative consequences are to some extent pervasive and can destabilize social and political development and endanger formal and informal alliances; nevertheless, the segment of humanity that has adequate food, clothing, and shelter is being permanently widened in the Pacific Basin.

ROGER BENJAMIN is professor of political science and adjunct professor of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Benjamin is the author of The Limits of Politics: Collective Goods and Political Change in Postindustrial Societies (1982) and Tradition and Change in Postindustrial Japan (with Kan Ori; 1981). ROBERT T. KUDRLE is professor of public affairs and planning at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Dr. Kudrle is co-editor of International Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law .

Published in cooperation with the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

, Harlan Cleveland

Roger Benjamin, Robert T. Kudrle, and Jennifer McCoy

Part 1
CHANGING ECONOMIC PATTERNS IN THE PACIFIC BASIN

Ulrich Hiemenz

Paul W. Kuznets

Akransanee Narongchai

Part 2
NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL POLICIES

Sueo Sekiguchi and Toshihiro Horiuchi

Romeo M. Bautista

Eul Y. Park

Part 3
SPECIFIC ISSUES FACING PACIFIC BASIN COUNTRIES

Andrew Mason, Sung-Yeal Koo, and Wi-Sup Song

Chung H. Lee

Robert T. Kudrle

Part 4
CONCLUSION

Lee-Jay Cho

Toward the end of the 1970s a number of prominent leaders in the Pacific countries were calling for the creation of a Pacific Community. The late Prime Minister Ohira, building on a series of lively discussions of Pacific Futures in Japan, took an especially active lead in promoting the Pacific Community theme. Considerable interest was also generated in Australia and the United States. Several governmental and quasigovernmental initiatives (U.S. Congressional hearings, international meetings in Canberra, Bali, and Bangkok) have been exploring the concept. Many leaders in the weaker and less developed countries of Southeast Asia have remained cautious and apprehensive, fearing a new co-prosperity sphere dominated by the U.S. and Japan.

In 1980 the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and the University of Minnesotas Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs formed a joint nongovernmental venture to explore the question of a Pacific Community in a different way, not through political advocacy but by examining the functional needs for consultation, cooperation, parallel national action, and common action among and between the nations of the Pacific Basin.

Our distinctive starting premise was that functional issues of regionwide significance should first be explored before political arrangements could be designed. Rather than assuming ab initio that an overall political framework would be required, the Pacific Basin Project set out to clarify and define the international functions that might require more intensive regional coordination in the years ahead.

Five international workshops were projected for the early 1980s. The first four were to be functional workshops, in which a nine-member core group (from New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, and the United States) meets with experts to examine key dimensions of a Pacific Community 2 the management of marine resources, shifts in industrial geography, food and development, and information and communication. The same core group will serve as the steering committee for the Projects final phase in which potential political relationships and institutional arrangements will be considered.

The whole Project is conducted as an international, nongovernmental enterprise; government people from some countries do participate in the workshops as experts, but without engaging their governments or having to act as instructed delegates.

The first workshop, on The Management of the Pacific Marine Commons, took place in June 1981 at the International House of Japan, in Tokyo, which acted both as host and cosponsor. A policy paper by John P. Craven and Harlan Cleveland resulted from that meeting and has been published by the Humphrey Institute. A book, The Management of Pacific Marine Resources , by John Craven, with inputs from several participants in the Tokyo workshop, was published in 1982 by Westview Press of Boulder, Colorado.