Abstract:China, Japan and Korea's international relations are shaped by the fact that all three are significant importers of resources. This Introduction proposes two conceptual frameworks for understanding the politics that is taken up in the papers of this Special Issue. The first is to consider the extent to which there is an East Asian model of resource procurement. We find that there are some similarities in the approaches taken by all three countries; for example, their development assistance shares a focus on in… Show more
“…These companies are as opportunistic as other capitalist companies. While consistent with the wider calls to study the procurement strategies of oil companies from Asia (Barclay and Smith, 2013), this finding challenges the suggestion that the companies exhibit characteristics that mirror the state from which they emerge not the ubiquitous 'capitalist spirit' that economic agents possess and display in heterogeneous ways.…”
“…These companies are as opportunistic as other capitalist companies. While consistent with the wider calls to study the procurement strategies of oil companies from Asia (Barclay and Smith, 2013), this finding challenges the suggestion that the companies exhibit characteristics that mirror the state from which they emerge not the ubiquitous 'capitalist spirit' that economic agents possess and display in heterogeneous ways.…”
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