GIARI
Cultivating Talented Individuals:Summer Institute
Summer Institute on Regional Integration at Waseda 2008
2008.08.25
About The Summer Institute 2008
The Waseda University Global COE Program, the Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration (GIARI), is accepting applications from PhD students to attend the Summer Institute on Regional Integration. The Institute will provide students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge about regional integration in Asia and expand their research networks.
The Summer Institute encourages the application of PhD students conducting theoretical and empirical research on issues related to regional integration in Asia from various aspects, including but not limited to politics, security, economics, sociology, culture, and multidisciplinary studies. The Institute will provide a supportive environment where students can share their ideas, receive feedback on their research projects, and exercise their abilities to offer constructive and critical advice. The seven-day program will also include advice on practical matters such as conducting fieldwork.
The program will include a number of panels, providing students the opportunity to present their work with the aim to potentially publish the best papers in the Asian Regional Integration Review (ARIR).
The Summer Institute encourages the application of PhD students conducting theoretical and empirical research on issues related to regional integration in Asia from various aspects, including but not limited to politics, security, economics, sociology, culture, and multidisciplinary studies. The Institute will provide a supportive environment where students can share their ideas, receive feedback on their research projects, and exercise their abilities to offer constructive and critical advice. The seven-day program will also include advice on practical matters such as conducting fieldwork.
The program will include a number of panels, providing students the opportunity to present their work with the aim to potentially publish the best papers in the Asian Regional Integration Review (ARIR).
Program
August 25 (Monday) - August 30 (Saturday)
August 25 (Monday)
- Opening Remarks
Satoshi AMAKO (Dean, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Leader of GIARI)
MC: Shujiro URATA (Professor, Waseda University) - Session 1: Society/Culture
MC: Shigeto SONODA (Professor, Waseda University)
MC for Presentations 3 & 4: Masato KAMIKUBO (Research Fellow, GIARI) - Lecture 1:
Innovation & Regional Integration: Knowledge Networks
Dennis McNamara (Professor, Georgetown University) - Lecture 2:
Northeast Asia as a Transnational Space: Regional Integration via Transnationalism and Multiculturalism
In-Jin Yoon (Professor, Korea University) - Presentation 1:
Floating Local Managers in Japanese Companies based in Taiwan: Network Formation and its contribution towards Asian Integration
Yasuyuki KISHI (Waseda University) - Presentation 2:
Inter-regional Asian Emigration and the Potential for International Cooperation in East Asia: A Comparative Examination of State Integration Policies in Korea and Japan
Stephen Robert NAGY (Waseda University) - Presentation 3:
China’s Threat Perception of Japan After the Cold War
Yi Fu LIN (Waseda University) - Presentation 4:
Transformative Capacity of the State and the Development of Korea’s IT Industry
Seong Hoon PARK (Korea University) - Presentation 5:
Legacy of the integration past
Tomonori SANO (Waseda University) - Presentation 6:
Urbanization in Western China: Geographic and Ethnic Situation of Minorities
Jing FENG (University of Ottawa) - Orientation for students (including self-introduction)
(Yoji OSADA, Kaoko TAKAHASHI, Masato KAMIKUBO) - External Evaluation Meeting
Prof. Dennis McNamara
Prof. In-Jing Yoon
Prof. Wang Yizhou
Prof. Tereso S. Tullao
Prof. Peter Drysdale
GIARI Head Office - Welcome Party
MC: Tsuneo AKAHA (Visiting Professor, Waseda University Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies)
August 26 (Tuesday)
- Session 2: Politics･Security/Multidisciplinary
MC: Yasushi KATSUMA (Professor, Waseda University) - Lecture 1:
China's Transformation in its International Behavior and Affections over Asia's Socialization
Wang Yizhou (Professor, Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences) - Lecture 2:
Evolving a Human Rights Protection System in the Asia-Pacific Region
Vitit Muntarbhorn (Professor, Chulalongkorn University) - Presentation 1:
Japan, China and East Asian Regional Integration
Christian WIRTH (Waseda University) - Presentation 2:
Should Child Domestic Workers (CDWs) be Eliminated in Vietnam? Addressing the Tension between the Abolitionist Approach and the Empowerment School of Thought, and Making a Contribution towards the Creation of Child Labour-Free Asian Societies
Mai Thanh LE (Waseda University) - MC: Tsuneo AKAHA (Visiting Professor, Waseda University Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies)
- Special Lecture:
Re-inventing the Idea of an Asia Pacific Community
Peter Drysdale (Australian National University) - Presentation 3:
State-NGO Relations in China
Ying LI (University of Hong Kong) - Presentation 4:
From Developmental to Social: Change of States' Role in East Asia
Ki Tae PARK (Korea University) - Presentation 5:
Regional Integration to Address Poverty and Human Insecurities in South Asia: Problems and Prospects for Mainstreaming Asian Integration
Md. Shanawez HOSSAIN (Waseda University)
August 27 (Wednesday)
- Visit to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led by Prof. Urata and Staff
Visit to Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Visit to Sony Corporation, led by Prof. Urata and Staff
Visit to Sony Corporation Headquarters
August 28 (Thursday)
- Session 3: Economics
MC: Shujiro URATA (Professor, Waseda University) - Lecture 1:
Movement of Human Resources: An Avenue for Regional Integration
Tereso S.Tullao (Professor, De LaSalle University) - Lecture 2:
The Emergence of Economic Regionalism in Asia: Trends and Prospects
Giovanni Capannelli (Asian Development Bank) - Presentation 1:
A Comparative Economic Analysis of the Determinants of the Location of FDI in China by Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese Enterprises.
Shuli LIU (Waseda University) - Presentation 2:
Economic Integration: Relationship between Trade and Financial Integration in ASEAN+3
Charosporn CHALERMTIARANA (Waseda University) - Presentation 3:
Hi-Tech Spaces in Hyderabad (India): Networking and Benefitting from Asian Cities
Diganta Kumar DAS (National University of Singapore) - Presentation 4:
Domestic Constraints on China's Pursuit of Free Trade Agreements
Yang JIANG (Austrarian National University) - Presentation 5:
Gender-wage Difference in Japanese Affiliated Subsidiaries in China: a Statistical Analysis Using Intra-firm Personal Data
Feng Ye SUN (Waseda University) - Presentation 6:
Environmental Security and Regional Cooperation Policy in Japan
Nilly Kamal EL-Amir (Waseda University)
August 29 (Friday)
- Session 4: Politics･Security/Multidisciplinary
MC: Shunji Matsuoka (Professor, Waseda University) - Lecture 1:
Environmental Policy & Environmental Investment in China
Miao Chang (Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University) - Lecture 2:
Cross-border Human Flows and Human Security in East Asia: Implications for Regional Governance
Tsuneo AKAHA (Visiting Professor, Waseda University Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies) - Presentation 1:
Mainstreaming the Aspects of Global and Regional Economic Integration in the PRSPs in Asia: Its Impact on Human Poverty Reduction
Jeet Bahadur SAPKOTA (Waseda University) - Presentation 2:
China's Commitment in the Creation of East Asian Free Trade Area: An ASEAN+3 FTA or/and an ASEAN+6 FTA
Ganjar NUGROHO (Waseda University) - MC: Tsuneo AKAHA (Visiting Professor, Waseda University
Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies) - Presentation 3:
The Migrant Workers' Rights Protection in Asia Pacific Region: Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Far East
Anastasia V. KOUZNETSOVA (Far Easton National University) - Presentation 4:
Japan - European Union Security Dialogue: Issue of China Embargo
Olena MYKAL (National Academy of Ukraine) - Presentation 5:
Interpreting HR 4040 as Foreign Policy: China on the Brain of US Legislators?
Troy Keith KNUDSON (Waseda University) - Presentation 6:
Role of Regional Organizations in East Asian Integration in the Field of Higher Education
Anh Thuy NGUYEN (Waseda University) - Closing Remarks
Shujiro URATA (Professor, Waseda University)
August 29 (Friday) Farewell Party
- Farewell Party
MC: Stephen Robert NAGY (Waseda University)
Yasuyuki KISHI (Waseda University)
Papers
| Name | Title | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Yasuyuki KISHI | Asian Regional Integration from "an Elite Employee" in Japanese Companies based in Taiwan | paper [190KB]  |
| Stephen Robert NAGY | Inter-regional Asian Emigration and the Potential for International Cooperation in East Asia: A Comparative Examination of State Integration Policies in Korea and Japan | paper [358KB] |
| Yi Fu LIN | China's Threat Perception of Japan after the Cold War: A Tentative Discussion | paper [205KB] |
| Seong Hoon PARK | Transformative Capacity of the State and the Development of Korean IT Industry | |
| Tomonori SANO | Ideologies of Integration Past: Universality, Revolution-phobia and Integration | paper [296KB] |
| Jing FENG | Regional Inequality of Gansu in China: A Focus on Rural-Urban Income Difference, 1990-2005 | paper [491KB] |
| Christian WIRTH | Japan, China, and the Case for East Asian Regional Cooperation | |
| Mai Thanh LE | Child Domestic Labour in South East and East Asia: Emerging Regional Cooperation to Combat It | paper [534KB] |
| Ying LI | The Development of Guilds (Associations) in Wenzhou: A Trend of Relationship between Civil Society Organizations and State | paper [152KB] |
| Ki Tae PARK | Worldwide Diffusion and Shift of ISO standards from 1995 to 2005 | paper [135KB] |
| Md. Shanawez HOSSAIN | Regional Integration to Address Poverty and Human Insecurities in South Asia: Problems and Prospects for Mainstreaming Asian Integration | paper [203KB] |
| Shuli LIU | A Comparative Economic Analysis of the Determinants of the Location of FDI in China by Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese Enterprises. | paper [519KB] |
| Charosporn CHALERMTIARANA | Economic Integration: Relationship between Trade and Financial Integration in ASEAN+3 | paper [147KB] |
| Diganta Kumar DAS | Creating Hi-Tech Spaces in Hyderabad (India): Networking and Benefitting from Asian Cities | |
| Yang JIANG | China's Free Trade Agreements: Domestic Constraints and International Learning | paper [193KB] |
| Feng Ye SUN | Gender-wage Difference in Japanese Affiliated Subsidiaries in China: a Statistical Analysis Using Intra-firm Personal Data | paper [266KB] |
| Nilly Kamal EL-Amir | Environmental Security and Regional Cooperation Policy in Japan | |
| Jeet Bahadur SAPKOTA | Mainstreaming the Key Elements of Economic Integration in the PRSPs and the Implications for Poverty Reduction in Asia | paper [533KB] |
| Ganjar NUGROHO | China's Preferences in the Establishment of an East Asian Free Trade Agreement: An ASEAN+3 FTA or/and an ASEAN+6 FTA? | paper [289KB] |
| Anastasia V. KOUZNETSOVA | New Role of Labour Unions in the Era of Globalization :Labour Unions and Migrant Workers Protection | paper [392KB] |
| Olena MYKAL | EU Attempts to Lift the Arms Embargo on China and Security Balance in East Asia: Implications for East Asian Integration Process | paper [271KB] resume [239KB] |
| Troy Keith KNUDSON | Problem Defining the US Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act: Perception of China as a Cause and Implications for Asian Integration | paper [703KB] |
| Anh Thuy NGUYEN | Role of Regional Organizations in East Asian Regional Cooperation and Integration in the Field of Higher Education | paper [142KB] |
Asian Regional Integration Review (ARIR) Vol. 1
The Asian Regional Integration Review (ARIR) Vol. 1 is a collection of selected papers presented by participants of GIARI's Summer Institute. The purpose of the ARIR is mainly two-fold, to provide an opportunity for graduate students in PhD programs around the world who are interested in Asian regional integration to publish their research and to disseminate the research output of GIARI's Summer Institute.