Pacific century: Myth or reality?

Theory and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 303-347

  Palat, Ravi Arvind ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 21344463469     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00158261     Document Type: Article

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4. Some important exceptions to this generalization include studies by Arif Dirlik, "The Asia-Pacific Idea: Reality and Representation in the Invention of a Regional Structure," Journal of World History 3 (January 1992): 55-79;
5. and Gerald Segal, Rethinking the Pacific (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).
6. Dirlik, "Asia-Pacific Idea," 57. It is perhaps not accidental that the greatest historian of the Pacific - O. H. K. Spate - is a geographer by disciplinary affiliation. For some recent examples of the tendency to view the Pacific as a self-evident cartographic entity, see S. B. Linder, The Pacific Century: Economic and Political Consequences of Asian-Pacific Dynamism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986);
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9. and David Drakakis-Smith, Pacific Asia (London: Routledge, 1992). These studies, at least, have the merit of attempting to define, even if only cartographically, their units of analysis. Most works, however, tend to dismiss even this formality, and merely bestow the "Asia-Pacific" nomenclature on Japan, the "Four Dragons," and the odd Southeast Asian state, see, for instance,
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