The Contested Rescaling of Economic Governance in East Asia

One contradiction which has puzzled observers of East Asian politics is why, despite the region's considerable economic integration, economic governance institutions remain underdeveloped. This book stems from the observation that the study of actual forms of economic governance in Asia has been impeded by the dominance of a ‘regionalism’ problem. Contributors identify and explain the emergence of a variety of regional modes of economic governance, explain the factors shaping the spatial scale of economic governance in Asia, and discern the patterns of regional integration to which they give rise. This book was published as a special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs.