Asia Pacific Regionalism as a Response to Globalisation

Fundamentally, economic forces drive Pacific integration. Subregional influences such as Confucianism, Buddhism, Chinese language, invasions, migrations, and international commerce were divisive or unifying, depending on circumstances, but each contribute to historic linkages that give the terms “East Asia” and Southeast Asia” their larger meanings. Stubbs further notes that: “As political barriers to direct cooperation have diminished in recent years, this fact, combined with economic inter

The key exchange in the Pacific Asian area in the post-Second World War period has been that of the Japanese and the Americans. It is this link that has provided the context of Japanese recovery and prosperity. The countries of the inner periphery of East Asia have prospered over a long period of economic development in the political and military shadow of the USA and the economic shadow of Japan. Thereafter the countries of the outer periphery of Southeast Asia have recently reoriented themselves towards the economic model of Japan. Overall, the region has been undergoing considerable structural change since the late 1970s and there is now a significant measure of regional trade, integration and acknowledged cultural commonality.

The notion of Asian values has increasingly been deployed by Lee Kuan Yew and the Singaporean elite to legitimise and maintain the power of the PAP state and generate unity among a multiethnic population. Berger illustrates this by noting how, “Lee Kuan Yew has emphasized on more than one occasion that the key to Singapore’s success lies in the way its people ‘used the family to push economic growth.’ At the same time his explanation for Singapore’s continuing success is very quickly extrapolated to East Asia as a whole and he emphasizes, “Eastern societies believe that the individual exists in the context of his family.” (1997, p. 271). Through the recognition of Asian values as sacred, Lee Kuan Yew has chosen a path of economic development that follows the Asian model rather than that of a glo

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