The Making of the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Brokers and the Politics of Representation

The Making of the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Brokers and the Politics of Representation
ISBN-10
9089644776
ISBN-13
9789089644770
Category
Political Science
Pages
238
Language
English
Published
2013-08-15
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Author
See Seng Tan

Description

Critically surveying the power of narratives in shaping the discourse on the post-Cold War Asia Pacific, See Seng Tan examines the purposes, practices, power relations, and protagonists behind policy networks such as the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council. The author argues that, filled with economic, social, and political meaning, the policy and academic discourses regarding the Asia Pacific and its subregions authorize and provoke certain understandings while preventing counternarratives from emerging.

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