John Ravenhill
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 182660 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Ravenhill |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Ravenhill |
| FIRMA | RAVENHILL J |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 93 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 625 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Response from the Authors
Response from the Authors: The Enduring Salience of East Asia's Automotive Experiences - Roundtable on Rick Doner, Gregory Noble, and John Ravenhill, The Political Economy of Automotive Industrialization in East Asia - Volume 23 Issue 1
Regional Trade Agreements
This chapter assesses regional trade agreements (RTAs). The number of RTAs has grown rapidly since the World Trade Organization (WTO) came into existence in 1995. Roughly one-half of world trade is now conducted within these preferential trade arrangements, the most significant exception to the WTO's principle of non-discrimination. Governments have entered regional economic agreements motivated by a variety of political and economic consideratio…
The Study of Global Political Economy
This chapter provides an overview of the current state of the world economy. The contemporary international economic system is more closely integrated than in any previous era. The global financial crisis and its aftermath provide a clear illustration of the relationship between trade, finance, international institutions, and the difficulties that governments face in coping with the problems generated by complex interdependence. The chapter then …
Global Political Economy
Global Political Economy presents a diverse and comprehensive selection of theories and issues. Debates are presented through a critical lens to encourage readers to unpack claims, form independent views, and challenge assumptions. This text has been updated with contemporary real word examples, including the impact of the Trump administration, Brexit, and economic nationalism. Furthermore, new analysis has been added on the international politic…
Redrawing the Map of Africa?
This chapter focuses on the state as defined in the traditional international relations sense, that is, as a territorial entity. Many scholars attribute the credit for boundary "maintenance" to the emergence of an African state system and its institutionalization in the Organization of African Unity. The predominance of crude dependency and world systems approaches in the study of Africa&s;s international economic relations has led to the interna…
Pacific Cooperation
Adjustment with Growth
African governments may have had to move furthest in order that a consensus on 'adjustment with growth' was realised, but this has been facilitated by a modification of the Bank's stance since the publication of Accelerated Development. The introduction of conditionality results in part from the view that, in success or failure at structural adjustment, vested interests count as much as the rationality of policy-making. There are two issues that …
Entrepreneurial states
The emergence of newly prominent participants (NPPs) in global governance has led to a revival of scholarly interest in the concept of middle powers. Because NPPs do not share the characteristics of "classical" middle powers, analysts have attempted to salvage the concept by adding various qualifiers. In doing so, they have further reduced its analytical utility. The concept of "entrepreneurial" states extracts the valuable components of the lite…
International Political Economy meets the unexpected
The political economy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was the first of the ‘Mega-FTAs’ to be signed. Had it been ratified, it would have created the world’s largest preferential trade area. The negotiators of the TPP aspired to create ‘a next-generation transformative agreement’ that would address a new trade agenda focused on regulatory coherence and business facilitation. The expectation was that this agenda would generate a 21st Century trade politics that woul…
The Political Economy of an “Asian” Mega-FTA
Like other proposed mega-FTAs, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is intended to address twenty-first-century trade issues. The attributes of the RCEP negotiations are unique, however—being shaped by the dominant political interests in its member states and by the particular character of economic interdependence in the region
Australia's flawed approach to trade negotiations
Economists have warned for many years that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) will not necessarily increase economic welfare in Australia given the relatively small size of the economy and the country's lack of negotiating coin. The Productivity Commission cautioned in its major report on PTAs that there seemed to be a mindset of 'agreements for agreement's sake', in part because of fears of missing out on a bandwagon that has attracted Austral…
The International Relations of Asia
Economic-Security Linkages in Asia
International Relations Theory and the “Rise of Asia”
Strategic Asian Triangles
Territorial and Maritime Boundary Disputes in Asia
Territorial disputes involve a state’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity-its core interests. Historically, they have been the most common issue over which states collide and go to war. Since 1945, Asia has been more prone to conflict over territory and maritime boundaries than other regions in the world. Asia accounts for the greatest number of disputes over territory that have become militarized and that have escalated into intersta…
Principal Developments and Future Directions in Asia’s Trade
Energy Security in Asia
Japan’s Foreign Economic Policies
Central Asia’s Inside-Out Foreign Economic Relations
Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order
Catch-Up Industrialization
Beyond Bilateralism
Asia’s Flying Geese
Beyond Product Cycles and Flying Geese
Product cycle theory as expressed in the analogy of flying geese has become a widely accepted way of conceptualizing industrial diffusion across East Asia. As the product cycle is repeated for increasingly sophisticated products, so, it is argued, the development trajectory of Japan will be replicated in a succession of sectors and countries. This approach fails, however, to capture the complexities of the contemporary regionalization of industri…
Global Political Economy
Global Political Economy presents a diverse and comprehensive selection of theories and issues. Debates are presented through a critical lens to encourage readers to unpack claims, form independent views, and challenge assumptions. This text has been updated with contemporary real word examples, including the impact of the Trump administration, Brexit, and economic nationalism. Furthermore, new analysis has been added on the international politic…
Cycles of middle power activism
(1998). Cycles of middle power activism: Constraint and choice in Australian and Canadian foreign policies. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 309-327
The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia
This handbook examines the theory and practice of international relations in Asia. Building on an investigation of how various theoretical approaches to international relations can elucidate Asia's empirical realities, authors examine the foreign relations and policies of major countries or sets of countries
The ‘new East Asian regionalism’
The proliferation of regional economic agreements involving East Asian economies in the years since the financial crises is usually explained in the political economy literature by reference to economic factors. These agreements have been viewed either as a response to the costs of increasing interdependence and/or to the demand by domestic exporters to level the playing field when their rivals benefit from preferential trade agreements. A detail…
Fighting irrelevance
Contrary to expectations at the time, the financial crises of 1997–98 may have strengthened ASEAN. The backlash against a perceived unsympathetic Western response put ASEAN at center stage in new regional cooperative arrangements. Moreover, the rivalry between China and Japan for regional leadership has led them both to seek to negotiate regional partnerships with ASEAN as a whole. ASEAN, however, faces new challenges – particularly from rapid ec…
Multilateralising regionalism
The Asia-Pacific region is home to a large and rapidly growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). These agreements differ widely in design, scope and purpose. The “noodle bowl” that has resulted runs the risk of distorting investment and trade. Neither global institutions (the WTO) nor regional institutions such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping have successfully addressed these issues. Amidst this increasingly…
Pacific Cooperation
Economic and security regimes in the Asia-Pacific region, Andrew Mack and John Ravenhill institution-building in the Pacific, Miles Kahler comparing regional cooperation efforts in the Asia-Pacific and North America, Vinod Aggarwal APEC - a skeptical view, Richard Higgott leadership and cooperative institutions in the Asia-Pacific, David P. Rapkin the post-Cold War Asia-Pacific security order - conflict or cooperation?, Barry Buzan regionalism an…
East Asian regionalism
East Asia has emerged over the last decade as the most active site for the negotiation of regional inter-governmental collaboration. The primary focus has been on trade but, in the wake of the financial crises, governments have also engaged in historically unprecedented collaboration in several areas of finance. Multiple factors have driven this new regional engagement. Although the agreements have been primarily economic in their focus, the prim…
Pacific Cooperation
Global value chains and development
The adoption of the Global Value Chains framework by Multilateral Economic Institutions has led to the introduction of broader and more heterodox views of development into official discourses. When it comes to policy implications, however, the reports revert to an agenda that departs little from the Washington Consensus. Trade and investment liberalization are discussed in detail; 'complementary policies' required to promote upgrading receive sca…
In search of the missing middle
In a recent article in RIPE, Benjamin J. Cohen suggests that a deep divide exists between two schools of IPE: the American and the British. While, at a certain level of generality, obvious differences do exist between how international relations generally, and IPE more specifically, are studied in the US and the UK, various dimensions of Cohen's argument are problematic, and may inadvertently hinder his professed desire to build bridges across th…
Australian attitudes towards closer engagement with Asia
An important legacy of the Hawke and Keating Labor governments was to place the issue of closer engagement with Asia on the Australian policy agenda. This article examines public opinion on the issue, focusing particularly on security threats, defence and security links, and economic integration. A modest resurgence in public fears that significant security threats to Australia is evident, with Indonesia emerging as the most likely future threat.…
The political economy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was the first of the ‘Mega-FTAs’ to be signed. Had it been ratified, it would have created the world’s largest preferential trade area. The negotiators of the TPP aspired to create ‘a next-generation transformative agreement’ that would address a new trade agenda focused on regulatory coherence and business facilitation. The expectation was that this agenda would generate a 21st Century trade politics that woul…
The Asian and global financial crises
This article provides a comparative study of the consequences of the Asian and global financial crises for East Asian regionalism. It explains how and why the effects of the two crises on regional institutions were divergent. The differences derived from
The new bilateralism in the Asia Pacific
For most of the past half-century, Western Pacific countries largely eschewed preferential trade agreements. Their preferred form of trade liberalisation was unilateral action on a non-discriminatory basis. In the past four years, however, more than 20 preferential schemes involving two or more Western Pacific countries have been put forward. The new interest in bilateralism is explained by: an increasing awareness of the weakness of existing reg…
China's Move to Preferential Trading
China was a latecomer to the preferential trading bandwagon that has swept East Asia in the years since the financial crises. The Chinese government was unwilling to go down the path of negotiating bilateral and minilateral agreements until the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organization were finalized. Since then, it has become one of the most active participants in the negotiation of preferential trading arrangements, currently being…
Is China an Economic Threat to Southeast Asia
Analysis of data on flows and stocks refutes the argument that China and Southeast Asia are engaged in a zero-sum competition for foreign investment. Although Southeast Asia appears to have lost out to Chinese-manufactured exports in global markets, this has been balanced by substantial increases in exports of components to China itself
Resource insecurity and international institutions in the Asia-Pacific region
East Asian governments have long recognized that national security must incorporate a reduction of their vulnerability to the disruption of essential imports. The rapid economic growth of China and India has intensified competition for increasingly scarce resources, elevating resource security once again to the top of the international agenda. Issues that were previously regarded as ‘technical’ have been ‘securitized’ as state elites perceived po…
Economics and security in the Asia-Pacific region
The relationship between economics and security remains relatively unexplored, particularly in the Asia-Pacific context. The articles in this special section of the journal seek to broaden our comprehension of various dimensions of this relationship. One focus is to understand the circumstances in which issues have come to be defined as components of national ‘security’. A second is to develop a more nuanced approach to conflict, one that recogni…
Apec adrift
APEC’s lack of success in securing tangible benefits in its first decade has particularly disappointed its ‘Western’ members. Its failures stem primarily from three weaknesses: a lack of consensus over its objectives and how these might best be realized; the absence of an institutionalized driving force for the grouping; and a failure to engage with civil society. APEC’s shortcomings have put at risk what is arguably its most significant achievem…
Globalization, Poverty and Inequality
Europe and Africa
Regional integration and development in Africa
(1979). Regional integration and development in Africa: Lessons from the east African community. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 227-246
The move to preferential trade on the Western Pacific Rim
SinceFootnote∗ the turn of the century the Asia-Pacific region has become the most active location for the negotiation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs)—a dramatic change from the period before the financial crises of 1997–98. Substantial variance in scope exists among the more than 80 PTAs currently being implemented, negotiated or which are under study in the region. Those involving the United States are by far the most comprehensive. At …
Regional integration and development in Africa
(1979). Regional integration and development in Africa: Lessons from the east African community. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 227-246
Asymmetrical Interdependence
Europe and Africa
Comparing Régime Performance in Africa
The continuing prominence of coups d'état in the political life of the Third World has sustained interest in the question of whether, and in what circumstances, the armed forces are capable of making a positive contribution to modernisation. During the 1960s, a number of scholars began to take a favourable view of the military's modernising potential based on ideal-typical conceptions of armed-force organisations which, in Henry Bienen's felicito…
Trade developments during the first Lomé Convention
Reagan's African Policy
Traditionally Africa has had a low priority on the United States foreign policy agenda. Until the 1970s Washington was content to allow the European powers to uphold Western interests on the continent, the only major United States intervention being in the Congo where the departing colonial power was perceived to be too weak to resolve the post-independence chaos and preclude Soviet influence in this strategically located territory. Although succ…
The Eec's Generalised Scheme of Preferences and the Yaounde and Other Agreements
What is to be done for Third World commodity exporters? An evaluation of the STABEX scheme
Third World economies largely dependent on commodity exports other than oil have been the principal victims of the world recession. Attempts at restructuring international commodities regimes through the creation of the Common Fund have met with little success. Accordingly, the possibility of helping commodity exporters through the provision of compensatory finance has attracted increasing attention. One possible model for a new international com…
Aid through trade
(1986). Aid through trade: Reforming the international trade regime in the interests of the least developed countries. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 449-485
Inequality in the Third World
In their recent article in Comparative Political Studies, Kohli et al. (1984) attempt to test what they term “developmental,”“statist,” and “neo-Marxist” explanations of income inequalities in the Third World. They conclude that the “statist” approach provides the best explanation of short-run changes in inequality, these being the product of the nature and policies of the state in question: “Authoritarian-exclusionary regimes tend to worsen ineq…
A Rejoinder
Max Frenkel, Federal Theory (Canberra
Max Frenkel, Federal Theory (Canberra: Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, The Australian National University, 1986) pp. viii, 215.." Political Science, 39(2), pp. 220–221
Africa in Economic Crisis
Adjustment with Growth
Six years of intense debate have produced a measure of agreement on a solution for Africa's malaise. This is captured by the latest catchphrase of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, ‘Adjustment with Growth’, which implicitly acknowledge past errors by African governments – or, minimally, that a continuation of previous policies is no longer tenable in a changed external environment. An emphasis on ‘growth’ recognises that ‘adjust…
Trade Diversification in Black Africa
Third-World governments have frequently professed the virtues of trade diversification, and they have voiced a number of legitimate concerns about what can happen if this is not achieved. First, the greater the geographical concentration of their export trade, the more vulnerable are they to fluctuations arising from changes in the level of imports, devaluations, or other developments in their principal markets.1When, for instance, exports were d…
Africa in Economic Crisis
Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa
The North-South balance of power
The article reviews North—South relations in the 1980s and suggests ways in which the changing global agenda of the 1990s offers scope for accommodation and mutual interests between North and South
Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa
Australia's economic malaise
Ethnicity, Class, and the State
Our political interaction approach emphasizes the complexity of the group demands that the African state faces. It assumes a constant engagement of rival interests in the contemporary political arena, an interaction among various groups mobilized to secure public resources from those in authority. These groups—based on ethnicity, region, race, religion, generation, class, and so forth—may be distinct in terms of origins and appeals, but they shar…
Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa
Africa has undergone significant political, economic, and social change since the first edition of this book was published in early 1988. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition includes current economic, social, and political data, as well as entirely new sections on the dismantling of apartheid, civil society, democratization and multiparty politics, economic reform and structural adjustment, and the prospects for African developme…
Australia and the regional economy
State and market
Competing logics of regionalism in the Asia‐pacific
(1995). Competing logics of regionalism in the Asia‐pacific. Journal of European Integration: Vol. 18, No. 2-3, pp. 179-199
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