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Rethinking the Pacific

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Gerald Segal
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Have you noticed how academics specializing in British or American foreign policy are considered generalists while specialists on Chinese or Japanese foreign policy are considered 'mere' practitioners of area studies? Is it not curious when supposed journals of International Relations (like this one) have special numbers on balance of power theory and rarely draw examples from East Asia? This myopic mid-Atlanticism among students of International Relations reaches 'down' to the media world: how many realize that the majority of the troop cuts announced by Mikhail Gorbachev in December 1988 are coming from Asia.

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Review Article
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Review of International Studies , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , July 1990 , pp. 275 - 282
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1990

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References

1 For example, Barry Buzan who seems to have a clear eastward drift these years. See also Mark Hoffman, Third Party Mediation in Third World Conflicts (Cambridge, forthcoming), or Nick Rengger, incommensurability, ‘International Theory and the Fragmentation of western Political Culture’, in Giddens, John (ed.), Contemporary Political Culture (London, 1989).Google Scholar

2 There has been a trend to call them Newly Industrialized Economies (NIEs) in deference to Chinese claims that Taiwan and Hong Kong are not countries. In the new mood of criticism of China, perhaps people will be less willing to accept Chinese-directed changes of our vocabulary.

3 These issues are discussed in China in Crisis (London, 1989).

4 Johnson, Chalmers, ‘South Korean Democratization: The Role of Economic Development’, The Pacific Review 1 (1989)Google Scholar. See also the rigorously thought-out arguments in White, Gordon (ed.), Developmental States in East Asia (London, 1988).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 The Enigma of Japanese Power (London, 1989).

6 See a good historical discussion of these vital issues in Akira Iriye and Cohen, Warren (eds.), The US and Japan in the Postwar World (Kentucky, 1989).Google Scholar

7 McCord, William, ‘Growth With Equity’, The Pacific Review 3 (1989).Google Scholar

8 See an outline of the issues in Segal, Gerald (ed.), New Directions in Strategic Studies: A Chatham House Debate (London, 1989).Google Scholar

9 If read in conjunction with Mark Valencia, ‘The Spratly Islands: Dangerous Ground in the South China Sea’, The Pacific Review 4 (1988), the analysis will be more complete.

10 Segal, Gerald, ‘Taking Sino-Soviet Detente Seriously’, The Washington Quarterly (Summer 1989)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and ‘The Asian Road to Arms Control’, Arms Control Today (May 1989).

11 For a notable exception, see Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, ‘Soviet Arms Control Policy in Asia and the US-Japan Alliance’, The Japan Review of International Affairs 2 (1988).Google Scholar

12 Drysdale, Peter, International Economic Pluralism (New York, 1988).Google Scholar

13 ‘The Yen Bloc’, The Economist, 15 July 1989.

14 Kate Grosser and Brian Bridges, ‘Economic Interdependence in East Asia’, The Pacific Review (1990), and Far Eastern Economic Review, 16 March and 8 June 1989.

15 Julius, DeAnne and Thomsen, Stephen, Inward Investment and Foreign Owned Firms in the G-5 (London, 1989).Google Scholar

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17 Reich, Robert, ‘Corporation and Nation’, reprinted from The Atlantic in Dialogue 1 (1989).Google Scholar

18 ‘Time to Surrender Those Victorian Traditions’, Financial Times, 26 April 1989.

19 Far Eastern Economic Review, 4 May 1989.

20 For example, see the Sunday Times, 23 April 1989.

21 See Segal, Gerald, ‘Europe and Japan Must Work More Closely’, International Herald Tribune, 21 04 1989.Google Scholar