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ASEAN's Futures
July 2017
The future of ASEAN is necessarily unknown. Its futures, however, can be guessed with less risk of being wrong.
South Korea in 2016: Political Leadership in Crisis
March 2017
South Korean President Park Geun-hye faced a leadership crisis after revelations that she relied on a confidant with no official position for key decision-making in state affairs.
ASEAN between China and America: Is It Time to Try Horsing the Cow?
February 2017
Admirers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are impressed with the fact that it continues to exist and that an outright war has never broken out between its members.
Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
July 2016
Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethno-racial minorities. Contested Embrace shifts the analytic focus to...
Rebellion of the Cadres: The 1967 Implosion of the Chinese Party-State
January 2016
Accounts of the tumultuous initial phase of the Cultural Revolution portray party-state cadres primarily as targets of a popular insurgency.
Capital Market Regulation in Japan after the Global Financial Crisis
December 2015
This paper is examines the evolution of Japan’s capital markets and the related regulatory reforms after the Global Financial Crisis.
Taiwan's Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Years
December 2015
At the end of Chen Shui-bian’s two terms as the president of Taiwan, his tenure was widely viewed as a disappointment, if not an outright failure.
Ballots, Bullets, and Bargains: American Foreign Policy and Presidential Elections
August 2015
Drawing on twenty-four years of experience in government, Michael H. Armacost explores how the contours of the U.S.
Dynasty: The Hereditary Succession Politics of North Korea
July 2015
Scholar and senior journalist Kim Hakjoon provides a timely analysis of the rise of the Kim Il Sung family dynasty and the politics of leadership succession in Pyongyang, including Kim Jong Il’s...
Explaining Institutional Change: Policy Areas, Outside Options, and the Bretton Woods Institutions
April 2015
I propose and test a theoretical framework that explains institutional change in international relations.
Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan: Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime
August 2014
Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan presents a compelling case study on change in political regimes through its exploration of Japan's transition to democracy.
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan
January 2014
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan takes a creative and comparative view of the new challenges and dynamics confronting these maturing democracies.Numerous works deal with...
Comparative Institutional Analysis: Theory, Corporations and East Asia. Selected Papers of Masahiko Aoki
January 2014
This volume collects 22 articles by Masahiko Aoki, selected from writings published over the course of his 45-year academic career.
Japan under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance
July 2013
The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in 2009 with a commanding majority, ending fifty years of almost uninterrupted Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule.
Historical sources of institutional trajectories in economic development: China, Japan and Korea compared
February 2013
This article first provides a game-theoretic, endogenous view of institutions and then applies the idea to identify the sources of institutional trajectories of economies development in China,...
Syncretism: The Politics of Japan’s Financial Reforms
January 2013
This paper examines how diversely organized capitalist societies evolve by analyzing the transformation of Japan’s financial system since the 1990s.
Knowledge Perspectives of New Product Development: A Comparative Approach
December 2012
New product and service development is the lifeblood of any enterprise.
Institutions and Comparative Economic Development
December 2012
This book explores why different patterns of economic development and growth have been observed across different regions and over time.
Complexity and Institutions: Markets, Norms and Corporations
December 2012
This volume explores how complex economic transactions can be treated in economics, as well as how societies bring order to complex economic and social transactions through various institutional...
China's Vision of World Order
October 2012
China has benefited from the liberal international order led by the United States.
Defying Gravity: How Long Will Japanese Government Bond Prices Remain High?
August 2012
Recent academic papers have shown that the Japanese sovereign debt situation is not sustainable. The puzzle is that the bond rate has remained low and stable.
Adapt, Fragment, Transform: Corporate Restructuring and System Reform in South Korea
July 2012
South Korea remains a puzzle for political economists.
Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat in North Korea
June 2012
Coverage of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) all too often focuses solely on nuclear proliferation, military parades, and the personality cult around its leaders.
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