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How do colonial legacies affect contemporary Asian IR? Select two examples…
How do colonial legacies affect contemporary Asian IR? Select two examples to illustrate your argument
Contemporary Asian IR
- interplay of political, economic, and security dynamics among Asian nations
- Themes
-- US economic presence in Asia (Korea)
-- ASEAN member states' relations with great powers (Vietnam?)??
-- China's rise as a great power (Korea + Vietnam...?)
Vietnam
Colonial Legacy
**WOULD THAT BE THE MAIN THING??
- ≠ development + modernity; having it focused on its agrarian produces and exports...
- MAIN FOCUS: facilitating movement of commodities out of Vietnam; serving interests of exporters
cost-effective administration, i.e.
- leaving Vietnamese villages mostly self-sufficient + autonomous
- monopoly control and coercion w/o corresponding investment in human capital i.e. corvée public works projects
RESULTS IN Vietnam being a lower, middle-income country
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Colonial Legacies
explaining postwar growth of Taiwan, Korea, Japan even, and virtual opposite in Vietnam → 30-year war, prime post-colonial "legacy" of France
DEFINITIONS
- colony → ≠ political sovereignty; = economy → monopoly controls + profits (colonial power)
- legacy → colonial experience aftermath
- colonial legacy = aftermath of colonies' experiences
Korea
Colonial Legacy
- North Korea = Anti-Japanese sentiment;
- South Korea = relations BUT STILL historical tensions with Japan
- state science (from German term) → study of IR within a society; application of PS principles + methods = understand interactions b/w sovereign states and broader global political scape
- state science of late industrialization = selective Western ideals and disregarding others → being enmeshed in hegemonic web
WOULD THAT BE THE MAIN THING??
South Korea; strong → economic development (Korean boom), weak → international political context (hegemonic web) = semisovereign**
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