Developmental States in East Asia: A Comparison of the Japanese and Chinese Experiences

Beeson, Mark

doi:10.1353/apr.2009.0016

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“…If many radical commentators have conceptualised China in terms of globalised authoritarian neoliberalism, others have maintained that China approximates rather more to earlier models and examples of the neomercantilist developmental state (Beeson 2009a(Beeson , 2009b(Beeson , 2014. From this perspective China's rise in many ways apes classic examples of post-war developmentalism associated particularly with Japan ( Johnson 1982) and later the Southeast Asian 'tiger' economies.…”

Section: Neomercantilism and The China Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Building on this, Beeson (2009b) makes the point that earlier developmentalist states, notably Japan, were able to gain many positive protectionist privileges, directly supportive of their development but unavailable to communist China. This was because of the nature of wider strategic relationships associated with US hegemony and the Cold War.…”

Section: The End Of 'Benign Neglect': From 'Living With' To 'Respondimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Notably these included the willingness of the US to directly support Japanese 'protected development' because of highly embedded security and wider geopolitical factors. Most significantly the US's post-Second World War anti-communist hegemonic role in East and Southeast Asia gave the US a direct interest in wider non-communist developmental success in the region, leading the US to adopt a 'benign' approach to developmental state capacity building, including in the critical area of technology transfer (Beeson 2009b(Beeson , 2013(Beeson , 2014. Only later, from the 1980s, did US policy begin to shift towards a less accommodating emphasis on competition and openness and also the active projection of its own power onto strategically dependent partners like Japan.…”

Section: The End Of 'Benign Neglect': From 'Living With' To 'Respondimentioning

confidence: 99%

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The global political economy is in flux as a series of cumulative crises impacts its organization and governance. The IPE series has tracked its development in both analysis and structure over the last three decades. It has always had a concentration on the global South. Now the South increasingly challenges the North as the centre of development, also reflected in a growing number of submissions and publications on indebted Eurozone economies in Southern Europe.An indispensable resource for scholars and researchers, the series examines a variety of capitalisms and connections by focusing on emerging economies, companies and sectors, debates and policies. It informs diverse policy communities as the established trans-Atlantic North declines and 'the rest', especially the BRICS, rise.

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“…This pattern reflected a less singleminded domestic state and less conducive domestic market structures (Kohli 2004;Grugel et al 2007). It probably produced more rapid technological upgrading but with an added level of dependency on external markets (Beeson 2002;Felker 2004).…”

Section: Global Imbalances and The International Political Economy Ofmentioning

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Modern Economic Development in Japan and China

2013

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“…On the one hand, China is portrayed as a developmental state, which has full control over all its state actors (e.g. Beeson 2009). The policies and activities of China's state (-owned) actors are thought to be strongly directed by the cpc and aim to contribute to China's strategic politi cal and economic interests.…”

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Chinese National Oil Companies in Ghana: The Cases of cnooc and Sinopec

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This article uses the case of Ghana to provide insight into the policies and strategies used by, as well as the cooperation between, Chinese state actors in their quest for natural resources in Africa. In 2007, Ghana discovered commercial quantities of oil. While the so-called Jubilee oilfield was initially divided amongst primarily Western oil companies, in 2010 the China National Offshore Oil Corporation partnered with Ghana’s national oil company to try and purchase a stake in Jubilee. Although this bid was rejected, later that year a second Chinese state-owned oil company, Sinopec, was able to access Ghana’s oil indirectly through an offtaker agreement, linked to a $3 billion dollar loan provided by the state-owned China Development Bank. The article uses these two cases to examine the level of coordination between the strategies of Chinese state actors in their attempts to access African natural resources. It shows that China’s national oil companies and policy banks operate in increasingly autonomous ways. This goes against the developmental state thesis, which argues that the Chinese state has full control over the overseas activities of its state actors. The article also shows that national political institutions in Africa can make use of and are able to influence Chinese resource deals, countering the notion of African passivity.

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Developmental States in East Asia: A Comparison of the Japanese and Chinese Experiences

Cited by 102 publications

References 45 publications

Towards a New Political Economy of Development

Towards a New Political Economy of Development

Modern Economic Development in Japan and China

Chinese National Oil Companies in Ghana: The Cases of cnooc and Sinopec

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