On successful completion of this course students will have the opportunity to demonstrate:

1. An understanding of the discipline of political economy as a reflexive, critical and comparative mode of research, particularly where the societies of the Asia-Pacific are concerned.
2. An ability to critically analyse and evaluate how the nexus between Government and Business determines the variety of political and economic outcomes in the Asia-Pacific region.
3. An ability to understand and synthesise the nature of contemporary interactions and transformations of societies in the contemporary world.

This course will examine:

1. The historical political economy of industrialisation in Asia focussing in particular on changes central to the emergence of the so-called 'Asian Miracle' of the 1980's
2. How government intervention in national economies and business involvement in politics have contributed to different rates of economic growth and different amounts of political openess - specifically in the cases of South Korea and Taiwan in Northeast Asia and those of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia in Southeast Asia.
3. A number of region-wide issues notably: responses to the regional economic crash of 1997; cronyism and corruption; Chinese business groups and networks; and the implications of political change for future economic development.

HUMA3356

Students who have completed HUMA3356 can not enrol in HIST3356.

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Internal Mode

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Tutorial

Lecture: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Tutorial: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term