Politics of accommodation of the Rise of China : the case of Australia

In the context of the rise of China, Southeast Asian countries and Australia have begun shifting towards an accommodation policy. Robert Ross examines the accommodation policy in South Korea, Mochizuki discusses Japanese accommodationists, and Manicom and O’Neil show some evidence of Australian accommodation of Chinese strategic preferences. The scholarship has, however, narrowly focused on and overestimated the role of security. Through a study of the origin, process, structural conditions and impacts of accommodation policy, this paper broadens the concept of accommodation to capture its multiple meanings and practices. It finds that a selective accommodation policy and strategy toward the rise of China developed in Australia is a sign of the changing power relations under which the mainstream paradigms of containment and engagement, hard balancing or bandwagoning, have proved inadequate to the task of dealing with China, and that economic interdependence has driven the politics of accommodation in Australia and several Asian countries

Intra-party democracy: a revisionist perspective from below

Contrary to the expectations of many people, China\u27s recent economic growth has not led to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the party has recently carried out a peaceful and orderly transition to the so-called fourth generation of leadership, has revitalised itself, and created a new, younger and better trained cadre corps. Despite this successful transformation, there continue to be many problems that the party will need to overcome if it is to remain in power, including pressures for democratisation in both urban and rural areas, widespread corruption, the emergence of new social groups, and increasing dissatisfaction among workers who seem to be losing out in the present transition processs. This book explores the current state of the Chinese Communist Party and the many challenges which it faces

Normative regionalism in East Asia

Normative regionalism has been largely overlooked and ignored; andnormative questions concerning regionalization are deemed unimportant,idealist and irrelevant to Asia. This is mainly due to the domination ofrealism, pragmatism and functional approaches, thus inhibiting the substantialprogress of regionalism in East Asia. It is time that scholars andpolicy-makers take normative orders of regionalism seriously.This chapter examines the state of normative regionalism and its impactin East Asia through an overview of the historical evolution of theconcept of regionalism, the meanings of and variations in Asian regionalism,and the impact of all these on regional cooperation in East Asia.It examines the old pan-Asianism, the advocacy of &quot;re-Asianization&quot; inJapan, Mahathir\u27s idea of neo-Asianism in Malaysia and the ideas ofregionalism developed in Korea and China. This examination provides thebasis for a discussion of the normative order of East Asian regionalismby addressing a set of questions concerning national sovereignty, nationalism,democracy and regional identities.In particular, this chapter will examine how Asian nationalist and statistnormative thinking influences various ideas of regionalism and constrainsthe development of genuine regionalism in East Asia.<br /

A deliberative approach to the Tibet autonomy issue : promoting mutual trust through dialogue

This paper reviews and compares three deliberative approaches to conflict, and applies the deliberative approach to the Tibet issue. It examines the case of a deliberative workshop, its achievements and limits. Deliberative dialogue appears to have improved knowledge and mutual understanding, enhanced mutual trust and deliberative capacities, and produced moderating effects.<br /