Global Health Governance and the Rise of Asia

A rising Asia brings to the global arena a new set of increasingly influential players with their own values, histories and strategic considerations. It remains to be seen if these shifts will lead to a clash or convergence in the management of global issues. The critical issues include Asian actors’ treatment of sovereignty, their preferences on institutional design, and conceptions of their role in global governance. Global health is fraught with a whole range of collective action problems, which we are failing to address effectively with existing institutional arrangements. This is in part because these institutions are embedded in an anachronistic world order in which Asia is governed rather than governing. Bridging this disconnect will require multiple adjustments. Existing actors involved in setting global health rules will need to adjust to take into account opportunities, constraints and perspectives from the Asian region that may have thus far been neglected. At the same time, Asian state and non-state actors need to be engaged as co-shapers of the global order – not just in terms of material contributions to existing initiatives, but also in terms of leadership and ideas for reforming and strengthening current institutions

GHG Rise of Asia

Abstract A rising Asia brings to the global arena a new set of increasingly influential players with their own values, histories and strategic considerations. It remains to be seen if these shifts will lead to a clash or convergence in the management of global issues. The critical issues include Asian actors' treatment of sovereignty, their preferences on institutional design, and conceptions of their role in global governance. Global health is fraught with a whole range of collective action problems, which we are failing to address effectively with existing institutional arrangements. This is in part because these institutions are embedded in an anachronistic world order in which Asia is governed rather than governing. Bridging this disconnect will require multiple adjustments. Existing actors involved in setting global health rules will need to adjust to take into account opportunities, constraints and perspectives from the Asian region that may have thus far been neglected. At the same time, Asian state and non-state actors need to be engaged as co-shapers of the global order -not just in terms of material contributions to existing initiatives, but also in terms of leadership and ideas for reforming and strengthening current institutions

Replication data for: Economic Interdependence and History: A Closer Look at Diffusion

Policymakers have to adjudicate between two competing sets of information when making decisions: the experiences of other states with which they have strong interdependent ties, and lessons from their own historical record. We show that the effects of diffusion mechanisms are mediated by (a) the degree of economic interdependence between countries, and (b) a country's degree of trade exposure, providing a more accurate measure of diffusion compared to current approaches. A state is more likely to open its capital account when other states with which it has economic ties also liberalize their capital account, but this effect declines as levels of trade exposure increase. Second, we argue that states are affected not just by the international economy but also by their own historical experience of trying different economic policies. While we found a counter-intuitive negative relationship between a country's economic history and its current levels of capital account openness, we suspect this result is driven by an intervening, non-linear effect of inflation that can be investigated in future research. We also discuss the challenges of making causal inferences using time-series cross sectional data, demonstrate ways to improve methodological rigor, and discuss the trade-offs involved in choosing between different models