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Choi, Ji Young. "East-Asianism vs. Asian-Pacificism: the Contested Process of Formation of a Regional Identity in Asia" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70713_index.html>

Choi, J. , 2005-03-05 "East-Asianism vs. Asian-Pacificism: the Contested Process of Formation of a Regional Identity in Asia" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70713_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Currently, the major axis of dispute in IR scholarship is characterized as the one between rationalism and constructivism. I then do not see that rationalism and constructivism are always competitive in understanding and explaining state behavior, but that they can be complementary in important ways. This paper seeks a ‘bridge-building enterprise’ between rationalism and constructivism in explaining the contested process of formation of a regional identity in Asia. Given that a rationalist approach has been dominant in IPE or regional studies, I strive to fill out some gaps in existing rationalist approaches from a constructivist perspective. In the first section of this paper, I explore the proliferation of regionalization and the tri-polarization of world economy in the context of globalization. Especially our attention is paid to the dilemma of Asia, that is, the lack of a formally institutionalized regional scheme and it will be explained how rationalism and constructivism complement with each other in understanding and explaining this dilemma. In the second section, we attempt to trace out emerging contested regional identities in Asia especially from the late 1990s to the mid-1990s: East-Asianism (or an East Asian Identity) and Asian-Pacificism (or an Asian Pacific Identity). This contested process of identity formation will exhibit that regional integration is a discursive or perceptive process as well as a materialistic or utilitarian one. But at the same time it will be noted that this discursive or perceptual process is not totally separated from power relations or the distribution of material capabilities. In the third section, it is pointed out that East-Asianism gained a critical momentum over Asian-Pacificism in the late 1990s especially after the Asian Financial Crisis, coupled with new developments in and outside of Asia. It will be however indicated that East-Asianism is largely an externally imposed identity and there are many problems to be settled for the fuller materialization of it. In conclusion, I reemphasize the necessity of the bridge-building effort between rationalism and constructivism in the study of regions or regionalism. Especially, the importance of the investigation of the identity formation from a constructivist perspective will be stressed.

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