Workshop Chair: Carol Wise, University of Southern California
Location: Joyce, Sheraton
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Workshop Summary:
Our objectives for this proposed project are threefold. First, we seek to bracket those labels that have been used to characterize these two regions, most markedly in the post-cold war era. Here, we are referring to such stylized facts as the depiction of East Asian development strategies as state-led, versus the market-based or “neoliberal” model that has been most frequently applied to Latin American reformers. Given the similarities in outcome across the Pacific Rim with regard to the effects of international economic shocks, we intend to grapple with perhaps one of the most important insights offered by Nobel prize-winning economist Douglass North: that different policy approaches and institutional arrangements can sometimes yield similar results. Herein lies our second objective: to drop the ideological blinders and analyze these policy approaches and institutional arrangements in their own right. Our third objective is to closely specify the ways in which these different reform trajectories have interacted with global economic and political structures.
Workshop Participants (tentative):
- Leslie Armijo, Portland State University
- Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick
- Saori Katada, University of Southern California
- Barbara Stallings, Brown University
- Sylvia Maxfield, Simmons College
- John Echeverri-Gent, University of Virginia
- Carlos Pereira, Michigan State
- Maria Antonieta de Tedesco Lins, University of Sao Paolo
- Eric Hershberg, American University
- Mark Beeson, University of Western Australia
