Can Japan Become "A Society Attractive for Immigrants?" Identity, Gender and Nation-States under Globalization in East Asia

This paper analyses how the 1950–61 conflict between Portugal and India over the territories that constituted Portuguese India (Goa, Daman and Diu) informed Portugal’s relations with the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for South East Asia (SEARO). The ‘Goa question’ determined the way international health policies were actually put into place locally and the meaning with which they were invested. This case study thus reveals the political production of SEARO as a dynamic space for disputes and negotiations between nation-states in decolonising Asia. In this context, health often came second in the face of contrasting nationalistic projects, both colonial and post-colonial.

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The Frontiers of “Burma”

Comparative Studies in Society and History ◽

10.1017/s0010417500000992 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 49-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 96

Author(s):

E. R. Leach

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Common Sense ◽

South East Asia ◽

Nation States ◽

Special Knowledge

The thesis underlying this essay may be summarized as follows: The modern European concepts frontier, state and nation are interdependent but they are not necessarily applicable to all state-like political organisations everywhere. In default of adequate documentary materials most historians of South-East Asia have tended to assume that the states with which they have to deal were Nation-States occupied by named “Peoples” and separated from each other by precise political frontiers. The inferences that have been made on the basis of these initial assumptions sometimes conflict with sociological common sense. It is not the anthropologist's task to write history, but if history is to be elaborated with the aid of inspired guesses then the special knowledge of the anthropologist becomes relevant so as to point up the probabilities.

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A CASE STUDY OF AN EXPANSION OF INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS EAST ASIA: LOOK EAST POLICY TO ACT EAST POLICY

Towards Excellence ◽

10.37867/te100312 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 95-101

Author(s):

Kashyap Kotecha ◽

Mukesh Khatik

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Cold War ◽

East Asia ◽

Indian Government ◽

Post Cold War ◽

Nation States ◽

Foreign Policies ◽

Asean Countries ◽

The Look ◽

Indian Foreign Policy

Foreign policies of the Nation-States being corrected continuously, especially after the Post - Cold war multipolar scenario. India’s partnership with SouthEast Asian Nation-States is a Post – Cold war story. The era of globalisation impels India as well as ASEAN countries to explore opportunities for mutual economic and strategic benefits, as a result of that India adopted the Look East Policy during 1990. Look East Policy being implemented successfully by successive governments. Meanwhile, China is being emerged as a global economic superpower in the last two decades. Due to the rise of Chinese hegemony in the South-East Indian and Indo-Pacific region compel India and other stack holder countries to reshape their foreign policies according to time, to serve their national interests. Consequently, the last Indian Government redefined and renamed the Look East policy to Act East Policy. One could say it as an updated version of Look East policy. In earlier episode policy was limited to South East Asia while in next episode focus of the policy is on whole East Asia. Also, the scope of Look East policy was idealistic and economic-centred, while the scope of the Act East Policy is realistic and vast. The newly emerged Act East Policy has an extra strategic edge over previous Look East Policy, the newer version is multidimensional, and it inculcates the strategic vision like the balance of power in East Asia, national interest and security-related issues in addition to the economic vision. Indeed, the nature of foreign policy always should be dynamic rather than static; hence, the Indian foreign policy is being transformed continuously as per the requirement of the time.

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Reflections on the transnational and comparative imperial history of Asia

Thesis Eleven ◽

10.1177/0725513617701930 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 139 (1) ◽

pp. 129-144 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Peter C Perdue

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Transnational History ◽

National History ◽

Imperial History ◽

Nation States ◽

History Of

Two prominent approaches to the history of empires and nation-states are comparative imperial history [CIH] and transnational history [TNH]. Each group of historians has actively promoted their perspective, but the two have had little interaction. Furthermore, in the history of East Asia, nationalist perspectives have dominated over transnational approaches until very recent times. This article points to new studies that examine Chinese imperial and national history from transnational and comparative perspectives, and encourages further work, including an ecological and environmental viewpoint, that will foster this trend.

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East Asia in the “New Era” in World Politics

World Politics ◽

10.1353/wp.2003.0003 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 38-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Lowell Dittmer

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

American Foreign Policy ◽

Northeast Asia ◽

World Politics ◽

War On Terrorism ◽

New Era ◽

Nation States ◽

International Diplomacy ◽

The Cold War ◽

The Impact

In the ongoing war on terrorism that highlights the “new era” in world politics, East Asia constitutes a crucial swing vote. Its importance derives from its growing economic heft in the world, as well as its central role in three key trends that have characterized international politics since the end of the cold war: globalization, regionalism, and a reequilibration of the national balance of power. This article examines the impact of September 11 on the region, focusing on these three trends as indicators. It finds that while the impact of the war has been in significant respects different in Southeast Asia and in Northeast Asia, in both subregions the dominant preference has been to pursue this new campaign more as a police effort than as a “war” against selected alleged terrorist-harboring nation-states. In this respect, antiterrorist efforts have been modest but thus far fairly effective. Yet the antiterrorist effort has not eclipsed other realms of international diplomacy (such as economic cooperation and regional development) to the extent that it has in American foreign policy. Thus there is some risk that the divergent priorities of Washington and the East Asian nations may unwittingly contribute to a form of regional consolidation in which the U.S. plays a diminished role.

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Media Systems and Political Systems in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of China, Japan, and South Korea

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies ◽

10.2478/vjeas-2014-0011 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 159-190

Author(s):

Eva Rohrhofer

Keyword(s):

South Korea ◽

East Asia ◽

Strong Dependence ◽

Political Systems ◽

Republic Of China ◽

Methodological Foundation ◽

Nation States ◽

The Media ◽

Media Systems ◽

Political Economic

Abstract Media systems depend strongly on their political, economic, and legal environments. However, it is increasingly argued that media systems will assimilate in the course of globalisation, making a comparison based on nation-states redundant (Blum 2005: 5). Comparisons of European media systems showed that media systems develop similarly in the same regions (Hallin and Mancini 2004). On the basis of a comparison between Japan, South Korea, and the People’s Republic of China, this paper deals with the question whether this also applies to the region of East Asia. Due to the strong dependence of East Asia’s media systems on their political environment, a nationstate based comparison is still reasonable in this region. Roger Blum’s ‘extended comparison approach’ is used as a theoretical and methodological foundation for this research. This approach allows establishing a connection between political systems and media systems. It will be shown that the media systems of China, Japan, and South Korea are first and foremost dependent on the political framework within which they operate. Regional similarities exist despite different political systems, but they do so mainly on the surface. On closer examination differences prevail.

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Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia

10.5790/hongkong/9789888390908.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Health Knowledge ◽

East Asian ◽

Reproductive Technologies ◽

East Asian Region ◽

Asian Region ◽

Nation States ◽

Gendered Bodies ◽

And Gender ◽

Labor Requirements

This volume explores gender and health in the East Asian region during the long twentieth century. The nine chapters represent cases studies from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, with complex interactions of biology, body, gender, and modernity from the 1870s to the present. The book is organized into three sections. The first series of chapters highlight processes that standardize gendered bodies in theories of physical development and reproductive technologies in modern and postcolonial East Asia in face of changing political and demographic needs and realities. The second section focuses on women producing and consuming health knowledge, facilitated by growing consumer and media cultures, where the marketing of health and medical products and knowledge not only competed with the state over the formation of gender and body norms and roles, but allowed for selective production and consumption by women themselves. The final section of three chapters examine how labor requirements, military cultures, and demographic policies shaped and were shaped by competing visions of masculinity, influenced by changing medical authorities and legitimacy of colonial powers and postcolonial nation-states. By illuminating these flows of knowledge, influences, and reactions, this volume highlights the prominent role that biopolitics of health and gender has played in knitting and shaping the East Asian region as we know it today.

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Beyond Imperial Aesthetics

10.5790/hongkong/9789888455874.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Political Movements ◽

Asian Studies ◽

Aesthetics And Politics ◽

Local Modes ◽

Aesthetic Experiences ◽

Nation States ◽

Critical Aesthetics ◽

Regulatory Powers

Observing that the division between theory and empiricism remains inextricably linked to imperial modernity, manifest at the most basic level in the binary between "the West" and "Asia," the authors of this volume reexamine art and aesthetics to challenge these oppositions in order to reconceptualize politics and knowledge production in East Asia. Current understandings of fundamental ideas like race, nation, colonizer and the colonized, and the concept of Asia in the region are seeped with imperial aesthetics that originated from competing imperialisms operating in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Such aesthetics has sustained both colonial and local modes of perception in the formation of nation-states and expanded the reach of regulatory powers in East Asia since 1945. The twelve thought-provoking essays in thiscollectiontackle the problematics that arise at the nexus of aesthetics and politics in four areas: theoretical issues of aesthetics and politics in East Asia, aesthetics of affect and sexuality, the productive tension between critical aesthetics and political movements, and aesthetic critiques of sovereignty and neoliberalism in East Asia today. If the seemingly universal operation of capital and militarism in East Asia requires locally specific definitions of biopolitical concepts to function smoothly, this book critiques the circuit of power between the universalism of capital and particularism of nation and culture. Treating aesthetic experiences in art at large as the bases for going beyond imperial categories, the contributors present new modes of sensing, thinking, and living that have been unimaginable within the mainstream modality of Asian studies, a discipline that has reproduced the colonial regime of knowledge production.

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East Asia and Central Eurasia

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235810.013.0023 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Peter C. Perdue

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Central Asia ◽

Central Eurasia ◽

Nation States ◽

The World ◽

Global Connections ◽

Economic Interaction ◽

History Of ◽

Ancient Times ◽

Soviet Central Asia

Since ancient times, East Asia and Central Eurasia have been connected to the world. Nationalist histories, however, have focused on the internal ‘unity’ of each of the nation-states of East Asia — China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam — while Central Eurasia has been fragmented into ‘Inner Asia’ (Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Manchuria) and ‘Central Asia’ (former soviet Central Asia). These arbitrary divisions ignore similarities and interactions within Asia, and they no longer fit the post-1989 world. Globalization and nationalism have now developed together. Nevertheless, East Asia and Central Eurasia have a much longer history of cultural and economic interaction than of nationalist isolation. This article suggests way to study the global connections of East Asia and Central Eurasia. It considers state contacts, stat formation and expansion, and great divergences between nations.

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