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Ehilo Nqum GLoBALrzATroru


aruo inr: ASIA PACTF'C AND SOUTH A5lA
i: 201
inciudes
of this is driven by
the ro
ur china anrt rnrri" growh
-*, :It:"ooomic
tions this u,.ti#H$:Hit$!iffi;s,i1, *rti*-

region'i5 :

worlC's mor The Asra-pacific ha:


become a key drrver or q,roo,
p^olitics. Srretching
such as Jap from the lndian ,rl.;; i,;;;
to the western shores of
Ta.iwan, and tl the reg 01
spans two oceans
- 11lTlt't,as.
such as Ca
:i:l :,: ;;;;;rir ri.l'iX ir#"i ;"T;:;,
'n,
includes tbe atmost half ,r,. *orji;, pop;;"".:
iIf.-?f-lt loartr
includes many of the kev enoine.
economy, as weil as the "i ,;--^,^;
lai est emitters
!' 'L e'iuud,-
of sreen-
norse gisei. ,i ,i'ir.. ,5'f
of our kev arries
anrtimio.tani'.r.ig,;n ijt'eral Iike
and china, lndia,
rndonesia. (cljnton, ,orli"
How then ar€ we
!o think about the relation_
ship berween gtobatizarion
*ft;.;;#i_
politicauy rmportant
_?],of:9
rest
r"gffiH;
this essay divjdes t""
,br;;il;.
tusl seCtion takes an externalist il;
,i"* ifilr_
{t rte,th" wey in *Uiefr tt *d*il;":;
O "
br stobati zatiou. Th"
$e^i
te.
;:-"-o;;".
l]lf-1,S.""rutive
regron
view showing trow ;;
rs au active aoent pushing
",
of globalization foniara.
ri"fro.Js
ffr"
rirrr""]OirO
how the regron can be under.stood
::.-.:^1".rr .
as.
.posmg an alternative to, globaiir;;;;.
Ultimately, no one viq* js
;;;;#"il:
l:eut.r.they illushate thp dynaii;'
complexity .d
of, gtobalizatrr, il
;;*, io;:
ITd.9"t: perspectives, the ess"y ;ff;.
globalieation iu broad listorical ,Jrris;;;_
mg not just on the late
,*,""?.-f:rrt centuries bur
t*"rti"th;J;;;;
colonial
tud;r;;;'l;
and, even preocolonial ,lrrr..---^' l']
207 THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF GLOBALIZAIION

AN EXTERNALIST VIEW OF
GLOBALIZATION

One thesis about globallzattot in the Asia


Pacific and South Asia is that it is an extemal
phenomenon being pushed into the region by
u'orld powers, parricularly the United States
and Europe. From this perspective, globali-
zation can be understood as a proce'ss that
transforms the Asia Paiific'and Souih Asia.
o"1;; ;;. hand, it c"i be seen as a foqqe for
good bringing economic development, poliii-
-
a1 pro gress, and sociallaud cultural' diversity
to the region. Others see the darker effects of
globalization including its role in economic
undercieveiopment and the uprooting of local
tradition and culture.
One of the earliest manife.stations of this
externalist discowse emerges from the his-
torical narratives about the Western 'arrival'
to the Asi.a Pacific and SouthAsia. According
to this view, the technologically and industri-
ally more advanced Western powers found
theil way to the region and. altemafi'rely
prodded aLrd muscled their way to political
and economic dominance. Western superior-
ity at the time existed for a variety of reasons,
rangLng from environmental and ecological
advantages to bther sociil, political, and/or
culturalcharacteristiis.l""'' :

Vvhile r.ve will question some of these


assertions lateq there is little doubtfiat colo-
nialism il the regionrbegi::aing from the
1500s brought enormous, often devastating
changes. This 'first globalization''had deep
implicaticns for domestic politicdl structures
il many Local indigenous polities, One'early
erample of this'was: the Porhrguese invasion
of Melaka in 1511 and the subsequent fall of
the sultanare, which shifted political ahd eco-
oomic dynamics in Melaka and beyonci. ence emCrgbd'i
Ferdinand Magellan arrited in,the Visayaa inciuding the A
region of l'hat would beconie the PlLlippines While'imobrtarit its ovm
h 1521 markiag the baginning of extended theiie
Spaish coloniai rule in those islands. The
Dutch follovred in the seventeenth century nationalism a:
arrd slorlly strengthened their position i:r the
Dutch,East lndies. The tsritish also consoli. zation and capitalism.' Orice: ddveloped, it
dated theil power ia South Asia, Bunna and became manifested politically in concrete
GLOBALIZATION
AND THE ASI,A PACIFIC
AND SOUTH ASIA 2O3
movemenh , ,.:].y,
America *o Larin and autarchic
areas such as

tl" a. grouui
highlights
p*1aio ffiffi;T::
t' India
ffi:9.:*-e"!oo*i"
and chraa rn
policies rouowed
r

by
:IPpt ;-;;;;' posr-war
rhe
the period.

;tr:ffiIf,fil**.tt9'i-urillt *t' success or ti,. su,t-aii.."l"*,",


..{fl'#ru":t
ot
was followed
p r"" r'iti'i''.,a ,!'r* ,,
rr.r;:s;#::'irft erue;'e-ffi[];i]i,r#ffi
serves *,p;11o61.,-t,;-". '1
#:HIffi ffi#J#ill.,?I
zo.ri H"lji",H"fr:ff:J.;i#ff::"ji
Ufu ;y::*" ;;'iJ,,,*f ,n.
ff5":Jr:frtll'o:nu,o,ltu"**rLo'a*,",
parts
rotheuEastA,,[t::::,"Ylo*" tirl,,,,,.,
to*"rparu
of the globe tively close rela- including
iAnderson, , rrrro"tt ,r., fl
worid w,
,t" r.gron
ul another way in whrch
erite, some;"J;I,T:JT,ff::l"rH:i":l
,;^L
inaking rm"i.,i.,
,r1r1i."i "J*Ir'** at
?" onc€ integrated
;;';;i" a,d *r;;;;;Ti"and the rise of rna,Lrfachrr.
sortr,"urr Asian econonries
*a,,,. ur,o ,,uti *,,"
".,i,,"i,iffi,1i,ff#;;fr""ilrt
;;Tiilr'"r' *"*, Harbor ll'-' r"'";; ;;;ilft H:' #'ff:."H'ff
*:'j:
oegtnrung of the .*k"d 1""":,:"t
oorninatirn,inth#il;,#"1il:fff."ff :"U:isll;J,I;H:i'11,i'**'ffi
er
,,0
reg;on became
miredi,, ;.;-":::-**:, T. Much oft the
*t*;rur;##"I:
r
o r tr,. cor Jw", #'":i"" :' *' ii,
jTl,:,'.Ji
: "H#,"f
:F&:iitG #:filvlffi'k;TmH l:ffiT:t "l;ru',- * *i:*i*::'
#,'ffi,Hxt'Ij=,,t ffiU#;1i ##H,,:1i."$gf;#
po*ti iito. ;;#tr #:ff
oo, ""#A*:::l
HIilH] fr:"iiry*tr'*fl:l*.,:f*rffi
i',li"J'ffi-r;5ijyffi
rapaEese market
gffiffiJ#r*r1
IMF soon
e.i-po,i. ;
w".r;
,

to suppry i"Tfj i: turned their arr"rtion


soods tbr ut ,iJr"# "er*;";;j
ililffiH to thetevelopi"g *oaa i*",-r*r"r""#.,
"Tt
#r,x;r$*ffi#tt,,,TfrH
(leneral Agreement
'u<.'nben-y,20t]z;. --
oo fu.ia..-'u;Tr"r:
1p*:,,
and so they simultaneously
ffi;j*,;;,J$?.::
lilreral economic policies 0.";;; ;":
*urr" ,i."-.,^,
ink hu, b"rn spilled up western *a us
,Much about Jann,,"
Japan's autheaia.luo "ir*r, ;; iJ|;
subsequent
""ooo*.n,ll1t]tl
.lb:"-t "t figures,

*;;*ffiiijji:: r111Jii**;ffi*
ffi!ffi!;;i_li
.. o a rgr o r J,f, j
:
"T"*,**H*if,S: J"["j",,,#, J;
".
:jl:"T.fI""u,"
relations'(Jolaion,
le82; ;-iol.
-lur"r;
jrtii
cruciar assistance
r"ei,i*,.i"i,n,
as

pre,tati:y varv, one


*g*,*1i, ,i?ffi [#il,iil"3m".,r," 1"g,-". a"a i.,pii.
and other rasiasian
s[*r i."irajr;.::;|.
::L:jf:T._t**:
sorne basis for economj"
and
fii'i9]tt. .0h.,-
ft" lende,rs looked u*uy nor,.-tn;;
,Taiwan were abte
nornic policies in line
.d"p,-d;;;: ^tllt,
srveamountsofcom:ptionu"ap""lr"or;oi,J*
*io" *i"lirr.yil;_
s tood
as an increasins grobarized
sys,cm and benefirted eJ;;; it}'jJ,n,il";rru j5;,r*i
g::** poricies in'the re80s *l #-i;ril.
">c0"*".i*i.J "yi,ul'r'il,',r
alization and exporr odenred gio*t}
srowtd moder rG;;l *i*p"-n#;:,J:: fi: l'fi::l^Tl,.*ro,,
led to increa:*, *oT!
of foreign
*ir.h
invesr-

*'r,l'fJ?,it*r*xHffi:ilili:
]ffil# i^ffi HL.ffi
704 IHE SAGE HANDBOOK OF GLOBALIZATION

Ferdiaand Marcos whose tenure had a ciisas-


rrous impact on the country's economy aucl
left rt stladdled with nearly US$30 biliion in
debt (Bello Kinley and Elinson, 1982).
By the mid-1990s, the policies that had
driven high levels of growth in the 'tiger'
economies began to show their limits. Much
of the invest,nent going into places such,as labor practices are unc
Thailand, Indonesia, and lr,[alaysia was sp-ec- changes. A-mong rhany :;develbped
ulative 'hot'money looking for quickrehrms as lqpan,iKorea,
on capital. When investors begao to re'alize
the unsustailability of this model, financial
speculators began to attack the cu:rencies,
betlrng that the central banks would have to time employment,,(Iree, .

readjust their rates thereby netting huge


gains for the speculatois. In July 1997, the
Thai economy collapsed as investment fled
like a massive hepd and the crisis spread to
much of the region (Bullard, Bello , and

Once again, interpretations of the Asian


Financial Crisis varied. The IFIs and ortho-
dox economistd argued thht ttre crisis
occr,rrred due to poor policies, weak govern-
auce, comrption,.poor institutions, and ilad-
eq'-late liberalization (Rah-6a, 1998). In
other rvoLds, they argued thdt globalization
had not gone far enough. Other more critical
voiceS argued that the problem was precisely
the unfettered capital resuiting from pro-
cesses of globalization over the past several
decades (Bellc, Bullard and Malhotra, 2000).
Both views however, recognized the deep
impact -elobalization haf-had'on the econo-
rnies in the region and th! inliuence it piayed
in creafing the 1997 crisis. ' :
: l

l4ore recentiy, 'attentiolr has turned from


Southeast Asia to China'drnd lhdia. For its part,
Chrna began liberalizing their economy in qe
late 1970s with the tefomrs intoduced bv
Deng Xiaoping. India began tci liferalize the;
economy in 1991 and inereased'levels of trad.e
and foreign direci investmint particulariy in
the textile and seMces sectors of the 6con-
omy. t4rile there are siguificant d.ifferences in
their approaches to lib'eralizatiou, both coun-
tries have expbrienced (igh levels of eco-
nor.ic grorvth as a result and have also
become mnch more integrated into the global
GLOBALIZATION
AND THE ASIA PACIFIC
AND SOUTH A5IA
20s
support ied Suharto
to step down ur Mav nr +L^
1998, The finar
re whea'['':nc reas

:GHtr;ii
g"*.i.i
ffi::*'*;' *l;'f'ffi if H#
:[J"#
me demanaiH f;yl1,ilffi;;'i"l*l#"1:,I;::::T:*
g,v rn c o n s, d

interriarionar :financiar
instti;;'"oiy *r becoming y:ef;ned stapre Lr
the
of muu-h the
:1iff"ffifX.u****3:,:#:Tll :',f:::ffflf.ils*;;;#i,#ll n." ..o
if {i:.:.ffi *:;ml:::i*;:$#.i:::Tl"#'J};'ff #."?;ffi t,ri:,I j[:
fl{fi#ttr{' mln t^;"i*#"n ;:ffi:';:*"j;:;;;sJ:,'i; ;:i*;#i;;
jc_ommu:rs.rirhreat,.rn Asia, rn u,i, *urlffl
ilrlly:p:fra,.r.,ioffin,.iro'o,J***.0
;.ffitr,iffil"furi.,a-*1o,il il:
l,"?"
rhefoundation,"illsitionandultimatetvIaid
T *,;:#;:J
ii3r"yil.li"l.l,,.1, f;ll;;;oi
ts that western and
oanicu-
i.,, o, ;

cultural frends have


, *t,.,rri[;.;ffi"lll$i;ur*r"no",l eioi"irr;l"L4rr spread
I of gJobalizdrioorihas
* ffi; Ilffi"ifi"#I,"#,"'iff;;i5, ...
ir.;;:,ii:^"ff::cntrgu:s
rI^
way in *ti"n'in.li:f*r:ii1c^altze the
"nd,S^^olii "i#
y.e rhis
i;:;ilrt'*^"r ro view the
an"*rr-o*"";:;'**come&cimanumberof
rerarionship
*:lnyj#l,S*T: l'!tT#::,ffii ff *Xf:"3y3,iyn and,r,. ..e.. o, i. "-,
rr.wo,rJlri.;fffi|, :L#, process-#.*';"J:,nj
el.rhalization ir
"H.,:I
r"ri*gio'"uio#iffi.*'t
way
brought fundamentai ;i;
;;" ,rr-r]l.n,r,
ff::y

il.T,tf #t'trHhi:iilj:Iilffiq[i]rff=:ff ril:*ffi tt;,'"'".:i*j:,,;::


grown
,ffi
dramaticallv
"a,,, ao,a=fr ffi hHI;;;";1 Sf offer H ::iii;;.l";*ll :i ff,,"TH::-" l:
altemative perspective,
o-o-oo" zui ur-*"J.'"''
I$:f|ojj;.3"y
qw 4,su popptng uo
pete wirh Westera "*1i"[1
throughout asiu tol.Ji,,
boa.Hfi,l.:T,,,,". "*-

ii:::T',nff*,ifr
-*,
frr:'.T"1'.{?"mliii:ffi L:f i3'f,,t3ll#iTf
rrn,iu&,ioif
i"r?'l;#T
Jrr"a i-apid expansioo "',Tr:."1f1? ^
b€eo
region.' Thelshare
orrrp"r*ritlffiH
,,me n orr^*^-: An
A alternative wav to see rh-
orr""";i'.i]-L]c: -^r^.:-
;;il*:::?i'#:r$i"ffi1[*#i.j:l
per cent in_EiritAsia.
l fr{ii:'{i:6i;: *[::"*tii,T i
,T H:*Bt f*i* ""$ffi"fi
';H","J *g'"" io' ffi;':il#ffi,:'ilI: ffi:
u e"ci or:nf
s ab
r\s a resuit, there
#
;;,T,f ffi:Ei:1?
;# :"fr i-,fr'i,",,#:
region
ili*H:t{ # :;;
. rtooi.rffi:J;"
is urro is also infiue
:,sri.-,-t *"' *.*',"lli:"r'ff'f#i:n::: ,i,. nu*." oiffiJi#i::;l.t?i:i?,,,',::
,is,i u',**J.; "#.' :1"111=!il,:,6: *^t t,, _*",*
.".; ;.;;;; fifi #ilr,*t{o;1._,",r."
il::T::rJrr"".:::"J:.,,,*. racle narrative rhar ;,t l:,.-*,.,r..i-,r,.
**i***iiffirf :flffi}kffi|
206 TI{E SAGE HANDBOOK OF GLOBALIZAI'ION

history Asia led the global economy only Philippines before making,$einway back.to ,

'fallhg behind' from the eighteenth cen- the core (McCoy and Scarano, 2009). In the
tury. As Aethony Reid not-es, the Furopeans lields of medicine and public heaith,
did not create the spice trade. The thriving American scientists and physicians, in the
spice trade in the regior and beyond is what Philippines brought back colonial: bureau-
drew the European powers io the region' cratic practices,and. identities to.,urban
Circumlavigating the globe was ameans.to health .depar.tqen!$, !9, lbQ lUriied $taJpE m
fi:rd cheaper,an{ fastel ways 'to bring fhe the early, .twentieth, :celtu5y|r, (Audcrson,
goods back to Esrope (Reid, 1988),'Spices 2006). In.theDutoh East ltrdies thcpoloniai
were aiready making their way to various experiencel in ^the rrealm, of,rthi: intimate rand
parts of the giobe,, but the Europeans were . the,personal, influenrced Europeianr r aotions
interested in cutting ou!thq middlgman- of sexuaiity and, social..'r.eform"(Stbler, !
In the same vsin, some have argued that 20I0). Irr other words,,cplonialismrwas not i

Asia, not the West, was fhe cen-tral global simply a practice of, .Western:rdotination, ll
iorce i:r the early modem world economy. For but also productive,gf wlp!,qerthink;of as $

much of the early modem era, :t was the site we.plgm and modern ; rfj -. ,,.r ii:,i . irr | :;,;: l
of the world's rnost.important trade routes In the post-cglopral,9r4, rfle.ig$se[tion.that tr
.I
and in, some placds *op" t""l"9logrc.qlV .,t
,:l

advan:ed than,thg West,in key.areas such as


science and medicine. ghina, of course, had a
l!
less tenable.,The earlier discussioniof,,fapan *
histori:ally unprecgdented maritime fleet ia suggested that the end of:TfprldiIVarrtr anil the
'Wax:helBed-hring
the early frfteenth century under admiral rise,of the Cold lapan,into
Zeng FIo rvirich traveled vrithin the region and the global economy, What lis vieiy,ovorlooks
as far as Aflica (Levathes,1997). The rise of
Europe in the eighteenth ientury came only
after the' colon-ral ijoweis extacted siiver
from the colonies and pried their way into the
Asian rnarkeb;. ln tha1rco4fe;d, ; the,, re,emer.
I

genceof Asja,tod?y.;iss39ulpgia.r-e,storatiou;9f procure par,7. 4pterials-,qq9h,as, coatr.ndtlirbn-at


its traditional domi:rant pos_ition,i+..1!9 glotal
econclny (Frank, 1998). gain p competitive'edge {q,thC glbbal
Cololialism too has come under new
a.
lens receutly as scholars have arguedl that
coionies in the Asia'paiifrc ana South esia
ancl elsewhere iirfluenced. the West'as much
as vice versa." Stoler aigues thaf colonies
\\'ere often'laboratories' of modernity'
u.here 'innovations in political form, and
social imaginary, and il'what defined the
modern itself, were r.ot European qxports
but traveied as often the other wav around'
(Stoler, 2006: 1). tn the Pktippiies, colo-
nial poiicing rn the Ameiican colony can be
understood as a 'social experiment that
transfbrmed both the Philippine poliry as
s ell as the US national securify state.
Practices and techi.ologies'such as counter-
i-osurgbncy,. surveiliarice,,and torture were
deveioped and perfected in the colonj.al wage laboi',and supply cn"ia managemeni,
GLOBALEATIoN
AND THE: ASIA parrcrr
ASrA- .,
pAClF,C
,L,r,L ^.,^ )UUTH
arvu
AND -
SOUT A5lA
2O7
Chna has also had
an
:-h: "':",i"biril a}],offiH;::Tfl:,^::
Remiftances riom,ni
or soods
fon [::m:;;,"il#"ii1H:#;:,;,:?
egeyoSies Somefimes,
sed the Worid exceed
8ffi 't'trff_{irliffi "*r.-itifLr-
the now or offi ciar
o;;il; these
Jfi :
H::td
iumff*'--*k-',m{r'
o-'-'4'wuri) *:.,.o11!3"es
in 2009
ii,ffi ^'no
fflp*itN$*iiffi
J v.I.*l;v rr Dor::{
(rh e E c o n o m
li
of the entire ecoilorny
i:::'dyil'ff .*"^.Ybl, oo io,l,
^12!!l
were
is,!
;
", i6ol, .n,
:l''"511[:ines 'r."'oru" 'lop r'u,.
#iffiffi,T{13i',,,1fi: ffi;:?.i.T -;'.,','ffiffi:;::'f:ffi1**;
and roans *"6"
53-Ilu ^ "*-noii'"';:i:lt
.",,.,*. **h':ffix""*:ii""i
souasj" *Jce
has srsq,o (rsram,
ff
rjrilr:i;[ry;$:,s"it*
reer) .;:j;a;";#l[.;T:#:rJces of rhc
1'1'1,,o"ea-iJ,il:fi:ffi:i,1T';i[j';,l.",l Ail;;;;la r.,a in the asia pacinc
; :?f .T*Tr":.":::-l"o"u,"*,'
iii:t#t#:* m ::r:#,U [j tr
",i,il',i'J ,nr",pr"i.J""i'ri*r
..u|y n"ouiin#Tt":vsterru vary'consi,J-
Indra too.has oPensd as a kind of burwark
u"a*,piurir;:l
**i#Ili:#
ro

3*i .i *i";r i;.:li:ffi'!t'ix:1; nu# xi:J


ffil :.iy",'il;t tr," ;;, oiff *:J"T"T,'; :.;"#i.'ri""11,""
ilevelopment regionaiism lf ',i"^o"r
""oio,i, o" Ianer view a;gue thar
n"r" .-
"rr|-i;"ffi:tr-::ft*are
,i':::;** THffi*}'*1#1;;3
*:n:**'#;ii*T,,#,"T:;#tr
increase (Dossam
*a r"ir"v,];o;:""'"'* to up frorn regional cooperaticn
,scale ro
Lidia aud cai"u, u*if'oiri""rl'', global
region, n.* ,n o,n..
cooperation
cI-Je
*o,ii, ."gi"onor,* r*,ilrrr,. ,
*o
Lrrrrnational ",IJti;#T'dff::#.*
can act as r sprinn-
board for globalization
fuuor, *niJi ir;;""r:'
mrgrzrtrt
fundamenialcharacilrr"lrifltr"l? one.of the distinguishing fearures
or rire
3iobalizati,i;ffi;f,:::1:f""Xfi::f regionar in,ii*,iln,
in Asia pacinc
oI
;: ""i I rnd
u,ff
$:iij::"'tr": $i[tfitT."T# m liinlri " 1,1's"0 " ". " u ",
!,1*
lj:loni9T.o-;r-#, or immigrauts from 11irnt1a
t"ndiaandchinh.Burmr"o*"."-fiil]r#iX
;;"0;;:'"'I,t'""rffi:'"X.,:ir1
I* f"*, of resionatis," .;;';;.;;;","
the. tensiin u*""n -""".,,J
*:3"y orclomestic workers
,;;;;,;ilJ ::::]"",
ln the region, or to
th ..l;,*:'*'#rruifi.r;;fi1{i!iir:;*,'*,s ",
tra,i;3;*i*:.flitrf
is often *.;;;:;;;"JJT::,HtH;: ll. :?;;; ;i;.'ilffiil1fi:J",$:ffi;
an opeluress in membership
Itl:t:ti.Tloor, evetr deadty. w*i *;il -J;.#;'i;
"f.ffi#A[ii [;.1riTk-rfi1,:: G;-il:;;';
:rt fig
:: *:-in,,iorfi,
il:i,",x,y,
Lanka (66 per cent) ano.sn per cent)
"::"r
;;*";;fJl:i:ffi;i"ffi;#;
zations
AmcricaINAFTA)uniErrop"f,rr"1"r."o.r"'
o.*-r,
,i;":;r"#",H",::
joioi]'or:*'(Kee' Yoshimatsu and
u,ion) trro to u.-,exclusive
closed,. and therebl.
208 THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF GLOBALIZATION

Open regionalism is ernbodied by Asia for example, qF *"giqg frqm'j$q+g-fu'


Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC. movies to Bollywocd have beqpme mas-
Fcrmed h 1989, it includes 2tr inember sively popular in {he West, not fo rnention
econornies along the Pacific Rim ilcluding individual filrnmakers from"thp region with
East Asian and Southeast Asian states but glbbal acclaim. Morerecently, there has been
also Russia, Peru, Chile, the United States a r:egional au$ elgbal rise in Kgreaa popular
'1990
and Canada. As thq Ministerial culture dubbed.thg 'K-W1ve' that includes
Declaration states, 'it was deqirable to redqce well as music
the spread of Korean dramas as
barriers to tade in goods andservices among K.pop). Nothing demonshates tbis, better
participaats so long as such, liberalization than thc smash hij,. 'Galpqp Stylel by
rvas ccnsistent with GATT principles and Korea pop star P$!,Rgleased;h J,q1y,2012,
was not to the detriment of other parties'.2 To the song and mugic video: bqcamb. a virai
be sure, APEC has'faced significant chal- sensation on,YouTube, topping mlsic charts
lenges especially in the wake of the 1997 in over two dozen countries includiag France,
Asian Financial Crisis and the more recent Germany, P-olan{, Mgxico, Austalia, Norway,
global economic crisis. However, it contin- and Lebano& and"grrbg,equgntly ,won Best
ues to push for a vision ofregional coopera- Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards
tion that is consistent with and advances (Ganpam Style: PSY 2012).
globalizaticn. Gtobalization has. got.been .1. ,gne-way
A final area to consider is the broad area of street. While there is little doubt that the Asia
culture aud globalization in thd region. The Pacific and South Asia hate,yery niuch been
ea:lier section put forth a perspective that on the receiving end lof globalizatioq it is
argues Western culhue has come to domj:rate also tnre that.the region is generative of
loims of music, entertai:rment, and culture ma:ry aspects of the glolalizatign process.
rnore broadiy around the globe and in the Thi-s gan be seen
-b,oth listgrically,,and
more
Asia Paci{ic and South f,sia in particylar. recenlly and ac1gss 4...broad.,varie$ of
\\4ri1e this MTV-ization and McDonaldizafion dornains from th9 econopy to.political stuc-
have some elements'of ruth, they also belie tues to culture. , :

a profoundly complex phenomenon. The


region is the source of a wide variety of cul-
tural phenomena ttiat'hdve aiso spread out-
rrard to the West and the rest of the world.
'Iiello Kitty', created in Japan by the GL6BALIZATION
Sanrio Group n "for example, has
1974,
beccnre a ;nassive global success. It can be
seen orr a rangb ofproducts frompencils aud
eraserstc desiper handtiags and diarnoird-
encrusted watdhes 'and $enerates a billion
dollars irr ievenue arinially, anime land
other enterlaiament prciducts from Japao)'has
become a regional iand global'phenomenon
i:eclurri;g pokemron,,M'arib Biotirer's,,
Astroboy, and Power'Ran$ers among others.
Much of this has come to be understood as
t,re spread of a kawaii or 'cute, culhrre, or
what some have called 'Pi-ok Globalization'
(Yano,2009: 68i-8).
Japan holds no monopoly in this domaia
with Japanese
of cultriral globalizarion. In terms of cilema 1940s. Japan's
GLOBALIZATION AND
THE ASIA PACIFIC AND
SOUTH ASIA

coionization of the region


a supposed East Asian
and the buildingof consensus on nationar goals within the de'ro-
co-prosperif
rterely'replicated impsrial
sf[r" ;;;;;;;o.0, ,o take the middle path, the
relationshiis in cord;;hun yuag
East,and Sbutheast ari. or the Isrami o*ro,_
*itn uha; to exercise.-tolemnce.and ",
Horvev.r,iit **,1:: "r*-;;rrr.
Tg"oi;;"rn o"* ,"*ia, ;;;rf (Lauftois,:200i:,15).
against,V/esterri irirperialism.'r"ru"r,-oiu.
sensitivrry
rhis
propagandardurinctry .onr*L *iur"warr"* u"iu", *ir..",:.,,,",y
*"er*ir"* on i.airiJ*r;li
forhshd;".ril;;;".1*
idea'or rAiriir do what he likcs, free from
"" . *yr";;;;ii'eura**ents
'tiberare,:,ithe, iregion
t"* B*"pi."iir" #r"*llrlJ *", they [and],individu_
'sphere'rreferredl"ita,v-ti *o*i shoutd uirut .,r.,y
and,Manchukuo;,However, int", T1" ,*a.
*irUri. rrijr..t (Langlois, "oae _g-oven:.ing their sociefy,
of lfortri War II,,Jap*
uirol..t"a.[rr.ra . 200,1: t5).
p;p*;;;or ,r,"..Asian values
'; The:memb"rs,of
Norrheast Asia to south
-J d"rri?rr ara. rhesis

lvfaachukuo,
thesph"ru ffio*r;3:, "r*;;;;;riJns (not crearry defined) tend
to respect uuttortlr hard
Manglang, (outer t work, thrift, and
the Republic or chini 's-"* tongo.ha), "*prrr.rir" ;J;.;"r_rriq, o'er the indivrd-
Republic of the prl,ppirlt,-
;;#", uar. Asia op"rur", on the
i-J#"ot basis of han,ony
Viuham'Kingdomoffi"*pu.i.;;5;;;"T -a **ri*J'iutr,", than majoriry rure,
concepts such-as rndividuar
iJ*il,;ffi3,."t0,
Kd;;;i,1,"L,,0 il;i,;, rights. poriticar
ffi ["*o",u", are wesrenr con_
rhe geography or the Sphere
, )iire was ;?J:,::til:"f*:: $i*::?l,ji:lfflr3
r}i[l*T,ffi:l
the
,
;r:";J',T;,::1"* i5lr:ffi,lTo"n ..gi,,"s based # i,,u,,
West. Japan's General
foi" *i."'ijr"",* To be sure, the concept ofAsian rzalues
rast 'Asia conference i" No"";t";';;;1 has
declared that Asia n"A ,rpi"it *a"r-nJlo* uotn within and ourside
"
that opposed the rmateriald.
li-;J;, "o*"
,rr" ."g."r. ai** *r*rrn.
Malaysian onuo_
the v/est'(Beaslev, zooo: "irir,r"rj"raf
ao). li" ajr,".
sitionTJ"o", *ri; l]tis altogeth". rrru,r."rut,
the co-prosperity sphere ia-G;;:l-rJ'"i*
"r
onlv of Japank ross in worra
*tttt-."*t r", Asian varues as
for autocratic practices and denial
an
war
the oveft racism of: Japan,ltr",f
ri;;;;d." "*.rrl"
basic rights unJ,iu"ni"r,.3 In fact,
of
slioposed co-members-It
,"*u,i, li, Asian firanciuil.ir* or
after rhe
anclthe emer-
soon u.."*" gence of poritical reform ',97
that the sphere was for
J"o;;n;;";;# "r*. in severar countries
in the regioi;-ri"iir.o.,.se
ontv often ar the exnens" of Asian vatues
rhe fellow members.
of th" ir,re*ri-"i ,;;;-";;', il:". ir poriticar.
Despite
the contiaued bitrer legacy
fi, r"ir*.'"# (Thompson, 2001). potency
w"liJ ** ii, Aaother way the region selves
"r as an arrer-

:effi,H:I'r;#;"fi :ffi TI#;I;qi"i,il,ruffi i[,i#l3iJi*y::


A n:ore recent manirestation
has been the ffifli,T.iiil"#:.iJ;
i:pff",-dl
Ho;";", rh"." u,. o,r,., i,tii
regior:a,ism'
;::,Ti:,:*il;*[,,:f'#;:X*:ljlj
reeOs r,opo,,*tJ.oi;,;'r,;,-il;
then'Prrme Minister tvtonamea
tvtih;d
;;
;;
}il:::, H::ff;j, S j#i:"ilij:l.n
self-consciousry ,Asian,.
.,,l;
M:.laysia argued thatAsia
tr-rct characterisrics thar
u", *rr"*iryiir_ The East asia r"ono_ic Caucus
make ;r li#";; (EAEC;

frffi",}:'i:::, ,lil:':, .
a";;".".i.;-;, ir^::. such exampie. Floared as ear.rv
as
,e?,:S: EAEC was pushed as an artenrarive
--- '\sian way is to reach to ApEC, **"
,.".;rrry an ApEC withour
210 THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF GLOBALIZAIION

Westem states. The proposed member states The alleged goals of, JI are territorial and
were ASEAN, Chi:ra, South Korea and aiso regionalis! namely to create an Islamic
Japan The United States strongly objected siate ia lndonesia followed by a pan-Islariic
and at the time, Japan,saw the exclusion of caliphateiricor-poraliqg,,!r,!a!ayqia;iSingapore,
tLe United States as a tbreat to their sfrategic Brunei and the southem Phiiippines. Certainly,
partnership and.effectively vetoed the idea. this notion of regionalism-is much flaJrower
Today's ASE.AN +3;(APT), which includes thanthe broad scope ofAsiaPacific and South
China, South Korea and Japaa, is sesn as a ' Asia, And, ultimhte$ rthe vi6ioa-,of the'i cali-
successor to the EAEC but because. it,is : phate is to,opand from,aiegionat b-a.fliobal
embedded in a slew of other institutiorral stmcfir-e. The point :heqetfu trat''fi iifiiillated
arrangements, is not seen as the radical alter- an, alternative, vision,':of ':political and,Socidl
native of the ear:lier vision (,Terada 2003). organization in the, region,I one rthat ,clasiles
A second urstitutional example along,the directly with the, paradigr:of globalization
same lines was the proposed Asian Monetary (icc,2002b). :

Fund (61,6';. \Yhile the idea had been gestat- A final way tci ,rhink' about rthe'region, as 'an
ing for several years,.Japan's, Mi:ristry of altemativq to globalization is to ,e4plore the
Fiaarce proposed itjn the, wake of the 1997 various iocal ,move,me,lrts tbat ha\re errerged.
financial crisis, suqprili"g maoy. The furd The movements are not exclusive:to. the Asia
was envisioned to have a capitalization of Facific and South Asia regioq but..they are
US$100 billion and hclude ten members'-. ch4racteristic of tends.thele yis.i.:vis the pro-
Chila, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, cess of globalization;,with,,respect to their
Arrstralia, lndonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, emphasis on disengage,ment from globaliztion.
Thailand, and the Philippi:res Q,ipscy, 2003). Tle village. of Santi Suk,in,Thailan{ for
Notably absent from the proposed member- example,r created their own curency, following
ship rvas the United Slates. Furthermore, the the Asian financial cdsis that stnrck the region
iritial <iraft proposal suggested that the AIvIF in Thailaud:(Ilookrvay, 2009). The currenry is
would act autonomously from the IMF. called the iDlatr, lqgqely:::tanslated ias r:linerit'
Although the AMF proposal rqceived nearly and opglateg'tlrorrghr a :lcenhal :bankl located
univelsul ,ruise and.support queoup fts poten- in the village..The currency caq be ,used to
tial members, the United States rimmedately purchase various commodities, but cannot.be
sought to strike doy4 the proposal. US gppo- used outside of,participating and can-
sihon succeeded and the failure of the AIi,fF "itlag.r
not be exchanged for Thailandis n"tional c,ur-
neant a continuation of an,IN,F-centered rency, the baht. Homemade currencies are uot
neo-iiberal approach to financial govemance exclusive toAsia but they.did,take on a.new
(Lipscy,2003). I
prominencd 14 the wakq.of.economic. tumloii.
Another. more subversive arriculation of Community cumency is an gxample of a
regionalism pgsed a_s'an altirnative to the larger nend in self-sufrcie.ncy movements that
West is the emergence of regional terror net- emerged in Thailand after the As-iaaifinancial
''r;orks, sirch as Jeniaah,Islamiyan or II. The cris is. Related initatives inrcluded a ssociatioas
origias and the'extensivenqssbf JI a"" m*tiy, srth, G tarlitional herbal, practitioners,,
but its main operations have bebn in Indonesia lleli
suffici.ency' goups,,comilunit/ ggrned rice
with apparent links in Malaysia, philippines, milf S,,and cgoperative'bhops- Local, produotion
aod t halland among-others entemational movements are also in line with the overail
Crisis Group (ICG), 2OO2a). JI is iafamous philosophy of being an altemative to belng
for the 2002 Bab bombings which took place part cf a giobaiized system. ln
Japan, foi
h a night club in the resort town of Kuta and example, Commuaity Supported Agicuihue
killed mole than 2OO people, rnostly (CSA) and the Seikatsu CtoU Uotl
Ar-rstra,lian and other foreigt nationats 1lCG, "Io.o*ug"
consumers to buy ethically *a fo"ully fiii,
2002b). and Adams, 2OO3: 24). Examples abou:ld in
GLOBALIZATION
AND THE ASIA PAqFIC
AND SOUTH A5,A
211
India as well includir
Lok Samiti group
wiuch advoca*
,"*lt"'tl objecf simultaneously.
While rhis may be
iq r:,:,err*'# trff #':r*ffi' "'.":
fue, rhe benefit or tni, ,orJ,
m*.*.li
to disaggregate and ijlustrate n.,
'Ti"::[?:T*: I?l:tu'F,e"ifr perspectives instead. il;O*::,
of ,uUr*lng-o H;";;
qe'r r,
o, u. r".**TiollTiX,3,l::nl*t: onervhole theoretical.approach.
""
fili:Ii, "'.' ;;il;;;;
The chapter has ct
i; Hfffifi and tried .J;rr;;;:::l::'d* over dePtrr

*:y"Pilffi
ratect
# #"" frXl,lil'#I :
altematives to
,ou:.ry "r*rr, * ffi:f; ,,ffi'l;:Xil::
in the region,
m
r
ovements,il;ff::l;1,?.,:,li., , :ilzition
llon as a process occ
f, nur r..-, ffi;,:j;-
push back uguiort il:JJ e,.il ;il;;;.',fiIffiL,};,::: ::
tI d u r,i

;
:: T:i' from
I :;; -
;ffi::i: "Jj"H::T rn the past two
ery, it
decacles.
has tned to
o"J*i,*rl" *u','i1,,.,,1
lme.ge the percei tbreat of secuiar- off.. u ffi:";il"fi;
rsm' Not all of *
rew have ilthese ,lI:-1
il:.,,niiil ffi ;"'T[[",, .:1"n and
plere
iaterpret that process.
While iacorrr-
contradictory, this is
essence of globalizatir .f*" ,fr"
CONCLUSION
ro tr," a,lu ;ffi
ilf3"1l,fl,ti,I,"'ionship

The pupose of this NoTEs


I chapter has been
I
various lenses through to sugsesr
";ff;r"
the reiatioushrp bet*een, .'r'1h,{-;" r See, for exampre, Diamond (j 9e8).
regtoa ofAsia pacific gr"o"** ;:'';" 2 Refer ,o ir.,. isgo
A,EC Min*teriar ri4eerins
",,d 5or,il;:ffi;rl;; , I:.,:::,,0 i*no,,_. cooperarion, (ApEC, -
has not beeu to
*T: g'*-[^'*;r:::
appropr:atethantn"oll"r.rnst€b4;Go},ilf
see'What woutd-confucjus eeor
say now?.(ree8)
r

grobalizatiou is a
co.grpte- p;;;;r;';ilr"
}Z,ff:;:fr:[:: ]yii-,,",;:."11,,,i.",,
b".".;";'i;.';;;;;
4 About us, Lok#::,.
::flJ *'fffiffi#L:; *d"[','"d ;' ;ffiT " l';",':],ii;.f'f,;ffi t?,,ffi :ffii.?i:{ ; [:;
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