The Contested Rescaling of Economic
Governance in East Asia
One of the apparent contradictions which has puzzled observers of East Asian politics is why, despite the regions considerable economic integration, economic governance institutions remain largely underdeveloped. This book stems from the observation that the study of actual forms of economic governance in Asia has been impeded by the dominance of a regionalism problematique. Scholars have focused on the emergence or not of regional multilateral institutions, seeking to evaluate these institutions capacities to enforce disciplines on Asian states.
However, they have neglected prior, and more pertinent, questions regarding the causal determinants of regional economic governance, which animate the contributions to this collection: What factors shape the scale and instruments of economic governance in Asia; and how and why is economic governance being rescaled between the sub-national, national and regional levels?
In the chapters of this book, the contributors explore the social and political struggles over the scale and instruments of economic governance. They identify and explain the emergence of a wide variety of regional modes of economic governance, explain the factors shaping the spatial scale of economic governance in Asia, and discern the patterns of regional integration to which they give rise. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs.
Shahar Hameiri is an Associate Professor of International Politics, and a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre, at Murdoch University, Australia.
Jeffrey D. Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, and a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre, at Murdoch University, Australia.
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Contents
Shahar Hameiri and Jeffrey D. Wilson
Shaun Breslin and Jeffrey D. Wilson
Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones
Natasha Hamilton-Hart
Czeslaw Tubilewicz and Kanishka Jayasuriya
Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente
Jeffrey D. Wilson
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 69, issue 2 (April 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
The contested rescaling of economic governance in East Asia: a special issue
Shahar Hameiri and Jeffrey D. Wilson
Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 69, issue 2 (April 2015) pp. 115125
Chapter 2
Towards Asian regional functional futures: bringing Mitrany back in?
Shaun Breslin and Jeffrey D. Wilson
Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 69, issue 2 (April 2015) pp. 126143
Chapter 3
Regulatory regionalism and anti-money-laundering governance in Asia
Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones
Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 69, issue 2 (April 2015) pp. 144163
Chapter 4
Multilevel (mis)governance of palm oil production
Natasha Hamilton-Hart
Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 69, issue 2 (April 2015) pp. 164184
Chapter 5
Internationalisation of the Chinese subnational state and capital: the case of Yunnan and the Greater Mekong Subregion
Czeslaw Tubilewicz and Kanishka Jayasuriya
Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 69, issue 2 (April 2015) pp. 185204
Chapter 6
The limits to Chinas non-interference foreign policy: pro-state interventionism and the rescaling of economic governance
Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente
Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 69, issue 2 (April 2015) pp. 205223
Chapter 7
Regionalising resource security in the Asia-Pacific: the challenge of economic nationalism
Jeffrey D. Wilson
Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 69, issue 2 (April 2015) pp. 224245
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Shaun Breslin is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, where he is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.
Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente is an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Shahar Hameiri is an Associate Professor of International Politics, and a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre, at Murdoch University, Australia.
Natasha Hamilton-Hart is Professor in the Department of Management and International Business at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Kanishka Jayasuriya is Professor of International Politics and Chair of the Management Committee of the Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Lee Jones is Senior Lecturer in International Politics, in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
Czeslaw Tubilewicz is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Jeffrey D. Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, and a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre, at Murdoch University, Australia.
S HAHAR H AMEIRI AND J EFFREY D. W ILSON *
The special issue this article opens engages with an apparent conundrum that has often puzzled observers of East Asian politicswhy, despite the regions considerable economic integration, multilateral economic governance institutions remain largely underdeveloped. The authors argue that this regionalism problmatique has led to the neglect of prior and more important questions pertaining to how patterns of economic governance, beyond the national scale, are emerging in East Asia and why. In this special issue, the contributors shift analytic focus onto social and political struggles over the scale and instruments of economic governance in East Asia. The contributions identify and explain the emergence of a wide variety of regional modes of economic governance often neglected by the scholarship or erroneously viewed as stepping stones towards deeper multilateralism.
