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Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Edited by Yoichiro Sato
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GROWTH
GOVERNANCE
in Asia
Edited by Yoichiro Sato
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Published 2004 by the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Reprint permission: Contact the editors at 2058 Maluhia Road,
Honolulu, Hawaii 96815
All views expressed in the chapters of this book are those of the
authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Asia-Pacific
Center for Security Studies (APCSS) or any governmental agency.
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Contents
Chapter 1 Growth and Governance in Asia: Framework ofAnalysis
Yoichiro Sato 1
SECTION ONE: POLITICAL-ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
Chapter 2 Challenges of Governance in Asia: Significance for Regional
Security and Stability
RichardP. Cronin 9
Chapter 3 Globalization and Economic Governance in East Asia:
Responding to the New Rules oftheGame inForeignInvestment
JohnRavenhill 25
Chapter 4 Globalizationand Its ThaiCritics
Thitinan Pongsudhirak 39
Chapter 5 Globalization and Economic Governance in Taiwan
Pei-shan Lee and Yun-han Chu 49
Chapter 6 Where Dragons Falter: LaborPolitics and theDemocratization
of Civil Society in South Korea and Taiwan
Paul G. Buchanan and Kate Nicholls 59
Chapter 7 Globalization and Economic Governance in East Asia:
A New Model for Development
Lawrence Greenwood 87
Chapter 8 Reforming Labor, BelaboringReform: Structural Adjustment in
Thailand and East Asia
Frederic C. Deyo 97
Chapter 9 Globalizationand National Identity: Managing Ethnicity
and Cultural Pluralism in Malaysia
Zawawi Ibrahim 115
SECTION TWO: SOCIAL STABILITY AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN A GLOBAL ERA
Chapter 10 The Role of Civil Society in Democratic Consolidation in Asia
Suchit Bunbongkarn 137
Chapter 11 Internal Security, Democratization, and Globalization in Southeast Asia
Michael Haas 145
Chapter 12 Growth, Governance, andHuman Development: Post-Soviet
Transition in North and Central Asia
Vladimir Petrovsky 155
Chapter 13 Political Islam, Pakistan, and the Geopolitics of Religious Identity
Robert G.Wirsing 165
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Chapter 14 Governance in Southeast Asia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Donald E. Weatherbee 179
Chapter 15 Civil Society and Democratization in Malaysia
Alasdair Bowie 193
Chapter 16 Globalization and Nation-Building in the Philippines:
State Predicaments in Managing Society in the Midst of Diversity
Rommel C. Banlaoi 203
Chapter 17 CivilSociety and Democratization in the Philippines
David Wurfel 215
Chapter 18 The Issue of Civil Society in China and Its Complexity
Yin-hong Shi 225
Chapter 19 Conclusion
Yoichiro Sato 233
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LIST OF TABLES
3.1 FDI share in Gross Fixed Capital Formation 25
3.2 Japanese FDI in East Asia 30
3.3 US Direct Foreign Investment in East Saia 30
6.1 Strikes in South Korea 1986-1998 66
6.2 Unions in South Korea 1986-1998 70
6.3 Strikes inTaiwan, 1984-98 75
6.4 Unionsin Taiwan, 1984-98 77
11.1 Comparison of Southeast Asian Countriesx 154
LIST OF FIGURES
3.1 FDI in East Asia 27
3.2 FDI in East Asia 28
3.3 FDI in East Asia 28
11.1 Relationship Between Democracy and National
Income Per Capita 153
11.2 Relationship Between Globalization and Internal Security 153
12.1 Economic Growth in North and Central Asia 157
LIST OF APPENDIX
6.1 Labor relations and transitions from authoritarian rule
in South Korea and Taiwan 85
6.2 Some other basic social and political indicators 86
13.1 Muslim Population in Asia-Pacific 178
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ROMMEL C. BANLAOI is the Political Science Director at the National Defense College
of the Philippines. Previously, he served as Vice President for Administrative Affairs.
Professor Banlaoi received both his M.A. and B.A. in Political Science from the University of
the Philippines, and is currently finishing his Ph.D. at the same university.
ALASDAIR BOWIE is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
at George Washington University. He is the author of The Politics of Open Economies: Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand (with Danny Unger) and Crossing the Industrial Divide: State,
Society, and the Politics of Economic Transformation in Malaysia.
PAUL BUCHANAN is a Senior Lecturer in Politics, Development, and Latin American
Studies at the University of Auckland. He served as the Regional Policy Analyst for the Inter-
American Region in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense. He has previously lectured at
the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Institute of International Studies, New College of
the University of South Florida and the University of Arizona, and has consulted for the CIA,
AID, Air Force Special Operations Command, Navy Special Operations Command and Air
Force Southern Command.
SUCHIT BUNBONGKARN is a Judge of the Constitutional Court where he has served
since February 2000. His previous positions included Dean of the Faculty of Political Science;
Chairperson of the Executive Board and Director of the Institute of Security and International
Studies, Chulalongkorn University; Chairman of Counter Corruption Committee, and
President of the Political Science Association of Thailand. He has also served as an advisor to
Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanond. In 1997, he was an elected member of Constitution
Drafting assembly. Dr. Suchit has an extensive list of published books and articles both in
Thai and English in Comparative Politics, Thai Politics, Political Development, and
International Relations. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, Tufts University.
YUN-HAN CHU is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science at
Academia Sinica and a Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He
received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota. He served as Director
of Programs of the Institute for National Policy Research, Taiwan’s leading independent think
tank, from 1989 to 1999. Among his recent English publications are Consolidating Third-Wave
Democracies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), and China Under Jiang Zemin (Lynne
Reinner, 2000).
RICHARD P. CRONIN is a Specialist in Asian Affairs with the Foreign Affairs, Defense,
and Trade Division of the Congressional Research Service. He received his Ph.D. from
Syracuse University in modern South Asian history/South Asian studies, and his M.A. in
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European history from the University of Houston. He is the author of Japan, the United States
and Prospects for the Asia-Pacific Century: Three Scenarios for the Future (ISEAS/St. Martin’s, 1992).
FREDERIC C. DEYO is a Professor of Sociology at Bingham University and Honorary
Professor and NZAI Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. His recent publications
include; Social Reconstructions of the World Automobile Industry (ed.); and Economic Governance and the
Challenge of Flexibility in East Asia (co-ed. With R. Doner and E. Hershberg).
C. LAWRENCE GREENWOOD is currently the U.S. Coordinator for APEC and manages
U.S. economic relations with the East Asia and Pacific region. He entered the Foreign Service
in 1976 after graduating from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has served in
the Department of State’s Economic and Business Bureau and in U.S. Embassies in the
Philippines, Senegal, Japan and Singapore.
MICHAEL HAAS taught political science at the University of Hawai’i from 1964-1998. He is
the author of some 33 books and more than 100 articles. He is the founder of the Political
Film Society, which he now manages in Hollywood.
CHE WAN AHMAD ZAWAWI IBRAHIM is a Professor of Sociology and Deputy Dean
(Research), Faculty of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). Books
published include: The Malay Labourer: By the Window of Capitalism (1998); Regional Development in
Rural Malaysia and the “Tribal Question” (1995); Cultural Contestations: Mediating Identities in a
Changing Malaysian Society (1998). He has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, from Monash
University, Australia.
PEI-SHAN LEE is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at National Chung Cheng
University in Taiwan. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of
Pennsylvania. Her research interests center on comparative political economy with a regional
focus on East Asia, comparative democratization, and international political economy.
KATE NICHOLLS is a native New Zealander who is currently completing her graduate
studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She has published previously on Latin
American civil society, and labor politics in Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and
Uruguay. Her current research interests center on the impact of historical and recent
transitions to democracy on the state's ability to implement coherent economic and social
developmental strategies, especially in Southern Europe. She has also taught courses in
comparative politics and political sociology at the University of Auckland.
VLADIMIR PETROVSKY is a leading researcher at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies
(IFES), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), and Professor, Chair of Global Political
Processes, Moscow State University of International Relations, Russian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. He is also a Member of Academic Board, Russia’s Academy of Diplomatic Services.
He obtained his Ph.Ds. in International Relations and Political Sciences in the IFES, RAS. He
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