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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/state-business-and-labor-east-
 asian-regionalism/
SUMMARY:State\, Business and Labor in East Asian Regionalism: A Region with
  Two Stories
DESCRIPTION:\n	Shu Min (Associate Professor of International Political Econ
 omy\, Waseda University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair/discussant: Willia
 m Grimes (Professor of International Relations and Political Science\, Bos
 ton University)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Asia Center\n\n\n	The Korean Pre
 sident Kim Dae-Jung and the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad coul
 d not be more different. Kim Dae-Jung was a democratic activist-turned-pre
 sident\; Mahathir was an authoritarian leader advocating Malay nationalism
 . Under their leadership\, Korea accepted the IMF proposals and conducted 
 sweeping neoliberal reforms\, whereas Malaysia rejected the IMF loans and 
 adopted capital controls. Despite these differences\, the two countries’
  leaders enthusiastically embraced East Asian regionalism after the Asian 
 financial crisis (AFC). Mahathir initiated the first meeting of the influe
 ntial ‘ASEAN plus Three’ framework\; Kim Dae-Jung launched the ‘East
  Asian Vision Group’ to chart a roadmap towards the East Asian Community
 . What motivated Korea and Malaysia\, along with other East Asian countrie
 s\, to pursue the common goal of regional economic cooperation? Different 
 from the emphasis on identity shift in the existing literature\, this talk
  examines the domestic base of East Asian regionalism in six countries (i.
 e.\, China\, Japan\, South Korea\, Thailand\, Malaysia and Indonesia). Foc
 using on the changing political foundation of the Asian developmental stat
 e before and after the AFC\, it argues that economic regionalization weake
 ned the traditional developmental state well before the AFC\, and post-AFC
  economic regionalism was a conscious attempt of the state actors to recla
 im authority over the domestic economy. In this process\, labor played a k
 ey role in allowing the state to strike back against business in Northeast
  Asia\, and in allying with business to capture the state in Southeast Asi
 a. These two divergent domestic processes left a decisive mark on the evol
 ution of post-AFC East Asian regionalism.
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