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The Abe Effect on South Korea's Trade Policy
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's decision to enter talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been a game changer in the competition over Asia Pacific free trade agreements (FTAs). His move helped to create a space for multilateral, mega-FTA competition before South Korea could fully prepare and implement its \"global FTA hub strategy\" predicated on bilateral deals. In this article, I provide an overview of South Korea's evolving strategies toward FTAs and explore how it has responded to the \"Abe effect.\" My focus is on two challenges for South Korea in participating in the TPP: US geopolitical pressure once Japan entered negotiations, and the de facto FTA negotiations with Japan under the TPP. Dealing with Japan is an especially tall order given the troubled history of South Korea-Japan economic and political relations.
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Japan's New Regionalism: China Shock, Values, and the East Asian Community
Japan's new thinking on regionalism is a means of soft balancing that counters a rising Chinese influence. A \"hard\" balancing strategy through an alliance with the United States is insufficient because the Chinese economy is indispensable for Japan's prosperity and because China is rising through soft power. Japan's response uses the concept of community based on universal values.
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The \Abe Effect\ in Northeast Asia: The Interplay of Security, Economy, and Identity
IN DECEMBER 2012 ABE SHINZO RETURNED TO POWER AFTER FIVE years in the political wilderness. Since taking office he has solidified his political leadership by winning all successive elections, paving the way to becoming one of the longest tenured premiers in postwar Japan. His security and foreign policies have already changed the landscape of international relations in East Asia as Tokyo's relations with Seoul and Beijing spiraled down to new lows for the post-Cold War era. Abe's new security policy, under the slogan 'Proactive Contribution to Peace,' helped bring the Japan-US alliance to an unprecedented level of closeness, clearly pitted against China. The Abe government is also potentially challenging the China-centered new economic order by promoting the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade network. Abe's decision to enter the TPP talks became a game changer in the race for free trade agreements in Asia and the Pacific. Adapted from the source document.
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Whither the Japanese Model?: Institutional Change and Emergence of \Many Japans\
Amidst a prolonged recession and financial crisis during the past ten years, Japan's capitalism has undergone change. In what direction is it moving? Is Japan converging on the US model? Or will it maintain distinctive national characteristics? This paper argues that no single clear pattern has emerged with regard to the future of the Japanese model Rather, Japanese firms have responded to the challenges differently over the past years. Four systems of governance have emerged. First, the traditional Japanese type of corporate governance, a relationship-based, insider-oriented form, remains in place. Second, very few are adopting a US-style, market-oriented corporate governance. Meanwhile, two emergent 'hybrid' forms mix market/outsider-oriented elements with relational/insider-oriented characteristics. This means that Japan is demonstrating an increasing diversity of mechanisms of governance that prefigure \"many Japans.\"
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The Abe Effect on Korea’s Trade Policy
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s decision to enter talks on a Trans-Pacific Partnership has been a game changer in the competition over Asia-Pacific free-trade agreements (FTA). His move helped to create a space for multilateral, mega-FTA competition before South Korea could fully prepare and implement its \"global FTA hub strategy\" predicated on bilateral deals. This article provides an overview of South Korea’s evolving strategies toward FTAs and explores how it has responded to the “Abe effect.” My focus is on two challenges for South Korea in participating in the TPP: US geopolitical pressure once Japan entered negotiations, and the de facto FTA negotiations with Japan under the TPP. Dealing with Japan is an especially tall order given the troubled history of Korea-Japan economic and political relations. KCI Citation Count: 4
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ROK and the middle power diplomacy
In Chapter 15, Yol Sohn makes an interesting discussion of South Korea's middle power diplomacy. Seoul's search for a new identity as a middle power emerged as the country successfully navigated the dual transition from developing to developed economy and from authoritarian to democratic polity. Responding to the call for a proactive foreign policy that broadens its strategic space and extends the range of issue areas, government leaders have utilized South Korea's positional advantage in the international network structure and capitalized on its connectivity by leveraging either convening power or bridging (brokerage) power. Its distinctive role in regional and global politics has been played with varying degrees of success. South Korea leverages its middle power role effectively in various issue areas like the regional and global economy where power and influence are diffused to many state and non-state actors, while facing difficulty in convening and bridging on regional security issues.
Book Chapter
Japanese Industrial Governance
This book uses a wide range of original Japanese sources to trace important aspects of the history of Japanese economic ideas, in particular, the development of Japan's industrial policy. In contrast to most others who begin their story within the 1930s or after 1945, Sohn goes back to the Meiji era to trace the evolution of Japanese developmental debates, state policies and market strategies involving cartels and small enterprises, city and countryside, and approaches that variously emphasize the market and the role of the state as Japan seeks to position itself in the world and regional economies.
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South Korea in 2013
The new government led by President Park Geun-hye faced challenges that the previous government had largely failed to address: rising income disparity, stagnant growth, political reform, and foreign policy issues, including a nuclear North Korea and an assertive Japan. Park’s foreign policy scored some successes while her old-style management of political affairs supported by the old guard caused a prolonged political stalemate with the opposition party.
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