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Regional international society in East Asia? A critical investigation

Zhang, Yongjin·2015·Global Discourse
DOI 10.1080/23269995.2015.1053190
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This essay conducts a critical investigation of the existence or not of international society at the regional level in East Asia as a critique of the excessive universalism of the existing English School theorization of international society. Through a purposeful engagement with the English School theory, it looks at how primary institutions of the Westphalian society of states such as sovereignty and the imperialism are historically imposed upon and resisted by East Asian states in dismantling the traditional regional order. It considers the way in which East Asian states creatively accept, interpret, engage in and practise certain primary institutions of Western-global international society, sovereignty and the market in particular, on their own terms in the postcolonial context. Variations in interpretation and practice of these two primary institutions, it argues, amount to East Asian regional contestations to Western-global international society through localization of norms. It also examines the peculiar features of great power management as a primary institution as it operates and is practised in East Asia and reflects on how in terms of both power politics and political economy the regional and the global deeply interpenetrate each other and are mutually constitutive. In so doing, the essay offers a social structural view of the contested existence of international society in East Asia, with an emphasis on understanding the contingent nature of the emergence of regional international society, its fluid existence and the problematic nature of its social boundaries.

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  • The European International Society of states became global with universal membership by expanding to other parts of the world.

    “For example, in the case of the ES, the European International Society (EIS) of states became global with universal membership by expanding to other parts of the world (Zhang 2015, 360).”

    From Imagining the Middle East: the state, nationalism and regional international society (2015) · cites this paper as Zhang 2015

  • In the classic English School conceptualization, the tributary system is an articulation of the historical existence of international society in East Asia with its own social structure and a particular set of institutions that help define norms of acceptable and legitimate state behaviour.

    “In the classic ES conceptualization, it is argued that ' the tributary system is also an articulation of the historical existence of international society in East Asia with its own social structure and a particular set of institutions that help define norms of acceptable and legitimate state behaviour ' (Zhang 2015, 362).”

    From Imagining the Middle East: the state, nationalism and regional international society (2015) · cites this paper as Zhang 2015

  • The classical expansion story does not pay sufficient attention to the question of local agency at the regional level in terms of adaptation, contestation and localization of norms and institutions of Western-global international society.

    “In other words, the classical expansion story does not pay sufficient attention to the question of local agency at the regional level in terms of adaptation, contestation and localization of norms and institutions of Western-global international society (Zhang 2015, 361).”

    From Imagining the Middle East: the state, nationalism and regional international society (2015) · cites this paper as Zhang 2015

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Authors
Zhang, Y.
Affiliations
University of Bristol (GB)
Corresponding author
Zhang, Yongjin
ORCID
Zhang, Yongjin
Venue
Global Discourse
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Published
2015-07
Volume
5
Issue
3
Pages
360-373
ISSN
2043-7897 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1080/23269995.2015.1053190
OpenAlex
W1548807423
Cited by
10
References
2
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2015: 4
FWCI
10.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Global Discourse (publishedVersion)
  • Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (submittedVersion)
  • Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Science Research and Education
Keywords
East Asia, English School theory, universalism, sovereignty, imperialism, market institutions, postcolonial context, power politics, political economy, regional order

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