New East Asian Economic Development: Interacting Capitalism and Socialism, Keun Lee, Sharpe, Armonk, NY, and London, England, 1993, xii + 268 pp., $60.00 cloth, $22.50 paper.

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-306
Author(s):  
Jan Prybyla
Author(s):  
Alex J. Bellamy

This chapter shows how regional multilateralism contributed to the decline in mass atrocities. It proceeds in three main parts. First, it charts the rise of East Asian multilateralism and shows how the “ASEAN way” developed and was gradually exported to the rest of the region giving rise to both common rules and informal practices that have helped facilitate the decline of mass atrocities by promoting state consolidation and economic development whilst managing disputes between states. The second part of the chapter examines some of these norms and practices in more detail, showing how regional multilateralism has contributed to the decline of mass atrocities through normative socialization and conflict management. The final section turns to some of the perceived limits of multilateralism, focusing in particular on the incapacity of the region’s supranational institutions, the absence of shared identities, and the region’s inability to resolve protracted disputes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-476
Author(s):  
Yong Wook Lee

AbstractThis article aims to uncover the socially constructed normative foundation for the alternative East Asian economic development paradigm to neoliberalism in the context of civilisational politics. The question I seek to address is why East Asian states make value claims when promoting their alternative method of economic development. In addressing this question, I make two interrelated arguments. First, I argue that the politics of Asian values can be understood as another case of non-Western society's struggle to demonstrate multiple paths to modernity. Second, on a deeper level, I show that the discourse and narratives on Asian values is part of civilisation politics aimed to recalibrate the place of East Asia in a world consisting of the civilised and the uncivilised, a divide that still remains today in various forms following European expansion in the nineteenth century. In so doing, I shed light on the performative power of ‘the standard of civilisation’, which naturalises the temporal and sequential hierarchy of civilisational identities in world politics. On the basis of this article's findings, I draw out implications of a recalibrated East Asia for the ideas of hierarchy and progress in world politics.


2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jene K. Kwon ◽  
Jung Mo Kang

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