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Normative regionalism in East Asia He, Baogang 2008, Normative regionalism in East Asia, in Institutionalizing Northeast Asia, United Nations University Press, Tokyo, Japan, pp.63-80. Title Normative regionalism in East Asia Author(s) He, Baogang Title of book Institutionalizing Northeast Asia Editor(s) Timmermann, Martina Tsuchiyama, Jitsuo Publication date 2008 Chapter number 3 Total chapters 22 Start page 63 End page 80 Total pages 18 Publisher United Nations University Press Place of Publication Tokyo, Japan Summary Normative regionalism has been largely overlooked and ignored; and normative questions concerning regionalization are deemed unimportant, idealist and irrelevant to Asia. This is mainly due to the domination of realism, pragmatism and functional approaches, thus inhibiting the substantial progress of regionalism in East Asia. It is time that scholars and policy-makers take normative orders of regionalism seriously. This chapter examines the state of normative regionalism and its impact in East Asia through an overview of the historical evolution of the concept of regionalism, the meanings of and variations in Asian regionalism, and the impact of all these on regional cooperation in East Asia. It examines the old pan-Asianism, the advocacy of "re-Asianization" in Japan, Mahathir's idea of neo-Asianism in Malaysia and the ideas of regionalism developed in Korea and China. This examination provides the basis for a discussion of the normative order of East Asian regionalism by addressing a set of questions concerning national sovereignty, nationalism, democracy and regional identities. In particular, this chapter will examine how Asian nationalist and statist normative thinking influences various ideas of regionalism and constrains the development of genuine regionalism in East Asia. ISBN 9789280811568 9280811568 Language eng Field of Research 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter Copyright notice ©United Nations University, 2008 Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30016950 Document type: Book Chapter Collection: School of International and Political Studies   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:42:11 EST Mon, 14 Dec 2009, 15:51:40 EST Mon, 14 Dec 2009, 15:52:13 EST Wed, 16 Dec 2009, 13:19:07 EST Wed, 16 Dec 2009, 13:22:19 EST Wed, 16 Dec 2009, 15:39:50 EST Wed, 16 Dec 2009, 15:44:57 EST Wed, 16 Dec 2009, 15:47:01 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 372 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:42:11 EST

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