2. A Decade of Political Torpor: When Political Logic Trumps Economic Rationality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. East Asia-Beyond Japan 1
5. I JAPAN
6. 2. A Decade of Political Torpor: When Political Logic Trumps Economic Rationality 37
7. 3. Students, Slackers, Singles, Seniors, and Strangers: Transforming a Family-Nation 63
8. II BALANCING AMERICA AND JAPAN
9. 4. Immovable Object? Japan's Security Policy in East Asia 85
10. 5. Creating a Regional Arena: Financial Sector Reconstruction, Globalization, and Region-Making 108
11. 6. Has Politics Caught Up with Markets? In Search of East Asian Economic Regionalism 130
12. III THE END OF NATIONAL MODELS
13. 7. Searching for a New Role in East Asian Regionalization: Japanese Production Networks in the Electronics Industry 161
14. 8. Regional Shrimp, Global Trees, Chinese Vegetables: The Environment in Japan-East Asia Relations 188
15. 9. A Narrow Place to Cross Swords: Soft Power and the Politics of Japanese Popular Culture in East Asia 211
16. IV NEW SOCIAL FORCES IN EAST ASIA
17. 10. The Third Wave: Southeast Asia and Middle-Class Formation in the Making of a Region 237
18. References 273
19. Contributors 311
20. Index 313
21. CORNELL STUDIES IN POLITICAL ECONOMY 327