The purpose of this study is to describe the history, development, problems, and issues related to achieving university status of South-East Asia College from 1974 to 1993. This historical research used records and documents from South-East Asia College and the Association of Private Higher Education Institutions of Thailand as primary sources. Also interviews with the president, faculty and staff of South-East Asia College were used. Secondary Sources were reports and publications from the Ministry of University Affairs in Thailand. The areas of emphasis in the study were government policies on private higher education, legislation that initiated the founding of the college, the founder, the college's goals, financial sources, curriculum, library, faculty, students, and buildings. It was found that the Thai government encourages the establishment of private higher education institutions. The Private Higher Educational Institution Act of 1979 was enacted to allow private universities to be equal to government universities. South-East Asia College was founded in 1974 by the Khunya Plak Muanpiew Foundation with the purpose of training Thai students for industrial technologies and business sectors. The college requested university status in April, 1987. The first attempt was turned down. Four areas not meeting the requirements were the library, faculty, students, and buildings. The college made a second request in December, 1991, and the change in status of South-East Asia College to South-East Asia University was approved in March, 1992. Suggestion for further study include: (a) the study is limited to one private university; a further investigation should be made of the other private institutions; and (b) a study should be conducted to identify factors which will contribute to the future development of South-East Asia University.

This study focuses on the relationship between Western transnational broadcasters and East Asian media. It analyzes 1) the processes through which Western media players are localized and 2) the impact of media globalization on local broadcasters in East Asia. Recent developments in the People's Republic of China are the primary focus in the discussion of local media.

Chan, Eunice Shan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-119). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.i / CHINESE ABSTRACT --- p.ii / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.v / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vi / CHAPTERS / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.5 / Definitions of Turnaround --- p.5 / Causes of Firm Decline --- p.6 / Severity of the Situation --- p.8 / A Western Perspective on Turnaround Responses --- p.10 / Turnaround Success --- p.20 / Turnaround in the Non-U. S. Contexts --- p.21 / Chapter 3. --- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND HYPOTHESES --- p.23 / Organizing Framework --- p.23 / Institutions and Their Impact on Turnaround --- p.26 / Institutional Environment in East Asia and the West --- p.32 / Hypotheses --- p.44 / Chapter 4. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.54 / Research Design --- p.54 / Quantitative Methods --- p.55 / Qualitative Methods --- p.62 / Chapter 5. --- RESULTS --- p.65 / Quantitative Results --- p.65 / Qualitative Evidence --- p.79 / Chapter 6. --- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION --- p.97 / Implications --- p.98 / Limitations and Future Research --- p.102 / Conclusion --- p.104 / REFERENCES --- p.108 / APPENDIX 1: INTERVIEW PROTOCOL --- p.120 / APPENDIX 2: ANALYSIS OF FIRMS WITH NON-ETHNIC CHINESE PRINCIPALS REMOVED --- p.121 / APPENDIX 3: ANALYSIS OF FIRMS WITH LOW Z-SCORES --- p.123 / APPENDIX 4: ANALYSIS OF FIRM SIZE --- p.126

Readings of contemporary accounts of the Japanese invasion of Choson Korea and Ming China's intervention, by Japanese, Korean, and Chinese writers; analysis of the writers' disparate world-views and how they each envision their country and its neighbours. This thesis uses contemporary writings from across the region to study the significance of the East Asian War of 1592-1598 for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese senses of identity, and argues that the war was a crucial moment in the development of those identities. Despite the 1592-1598 conflict affecting millions of people, and resulting in almost unprecedented cross-border flows of people and information, most previous considerations of its effect on identity have focused on court documents. In the first dedicated study of identities in the East Asian War, this thesis shifts from the hitherto emphasis on politicians and commanders to prioritize individuals at the frontiers of cross-border contact. This shift of focus from centre to periphery contributes to our understanding of two areas of history. In terms of the East Asian War as a historical event, it provides a far more nuanced picture of what this momentous conflict signified for people at the time. In terms of the history of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese identities, it demonstrates persuasively that the sense of belonging to a country held real meaning for people across society, influencing the actions even of those totally removed from the state. Tracing the legacy of frontier writings again contributes to both the history of the war and of identity, by revealing how peripheral insights and central biases combined to give birth to the orthodox narratives of the war, some of which remain influential to this day. Personal writings show how first-hand encounters in the war modified but also re-inforced already well-established identities, making national identities of immediate significance for an immeasurably wider group than in peace time. The late sixteenth-century growth in printing and literacy subsequently greatly amplified the impact of the East Asian War by allowing real-life interaction to be endlessly re-told as a dramatic clash between China, Korea, and Japan. This study restores the war to its proper place as a key moment in the longer development of national identities in East Asia. It also calls for a primary-source based, East-Asia centred reconsideration of theories on the historical development of collective identity, which remain overly influenced by later European experience.

This dissertation looks at Northeast Asia as a region composed of China, Japan and South Korea in order to understand the regional dimension of international cooperation. It takes the Tripartite Environment Ministers’ Meeting and the China-Japan-Korea Meeting on<p>Information and Telecommunication Standards cases for comparative analysis. Its aim is to<p>examine cooperation and decision-making under uncertainty and to explore how they affect<p>institutional development and enhanced regional cooperation. Analysis of current cooperation activities as well as development of chosen cases illustrates interactions between individuals, organizations and states. Risks associated with decision-making affect<p>behaviors of actors and self-reinforcement mechanisms of institutions creating path<p>dependence. / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The goal of this thesis is to clarify the issues related to the New Order in East Asia and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Emphasis will be added to motives which lead Japan to the creation of a new arrangement in East Asia. These motives are represented by both Japan's strategic interests, among which was the struggle for obtaining access to natural resources (such as iron ore, coal and oil), as well as the control over a certain part of Asian territory with the intention of creating a buffer zone, mainly because of fearing the Soviet Union. The effort to control the Far East was further strengthened by the Great Depression, which resulted with the creation of enclosed trade blocks. A significant source of Japanese expansionist policy was presented by the ideology of Pan-Asianism, which played a large role in Japan's foreign policy making since the second half of the1920s. Pan-Asianism had been originally focused mainly on Northeast Asia and only later was it utilized to legitimize the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia. The thesis also pays much attention to the creation of Japanese puppet regimes, both on occupied Chinese territory and in Southeast Asia. An important role here is played by the Japanese effort to cooperate with local elites, both political and religious. Not only...

This study examines the characteristics of the collapse of the stock market and the foreign exchange market in some Asian countries during the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. The interaction of these two markets during the crisis period is also studied. The method used to detect and date-stamp the timeline of the collapse is the recursive regression approach proposed in Phillips, Shi, and Yu(2015a,b). Tests are conducted on a time series of logged real stock indices and real exchange rate against the US dollar. The dataset includes information about Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. Great depreciation periods were detected in the foreign exchange markets of all these countries. And the negative bubbles in the stock markets are only detected in Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore due to different reasons. Moreover, the order of the collapse in these two markets is different for different countries. For example, bubbles appear earlier in the stock markets than the start of the great depreciation period in the foreign exchange markets in Thailand, South Korea, and Malaysia, whereas crashes emerge in the two markets at the same time in Singapore. The order of the collapses occurring in the two markets suggests the transmission direction. Therefore, we find that the transmission mechanism between these two markets is different for different countries and is also different from that during the non-crisis period, as suggested by previous works using the traditional Granger causality test. / 本文研究主要著眼於1997亞洲金融危機中部分亞洲國家股票市場和外匯市場在暴跌中所表現出的泡沫化特點，同時對這兩個市場變化的聯動關系進行了討論。本文采用Phillips, Shi和Yu提出的循環回歸方法對市場中是否存在泡沫以及泡沫形成和破裂的時間進行了判斷和分析。本文的研究對象為經過通貨膨脹調整的香港、韓國、泰國、馬來西亞、新加坡和臺灣的股票指數（取對數）以及這些地區的貨幣對美元的實際匯率。在所有上述經濟體中，對美元匯率都呈現正泡沫，這意味著短期內貨幣呈現較大程度貶值。然而代表股市暴跌的負泡沫只出現在了韓國、泰國、馬來西亞和新加坡，這些負泡沫亦產生於不同的原因。同時，不同國家股市和匯市的泡沫產生順序也不盡相同：在韓國、泰國和馬來西亞，股市先於匯市產生負泡沫；而在新加坡，股市和匯市的泡沫同步產生。由於泡沫產生的時間先後順序可以為兩個市場的變動提供因果關系的證據，所以我們認為在上述亞洲經濟體中，股市和匯市變動的因果關系也不相同。我們也針對上述經濟體中股市與匯市變動的因果關系提出了與之前已有研究的不同意見。 / Zhu, Jinhui. / Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 28-29). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on 14, September, 2016). / Detailed summary in vernacular field only.

University of Macau / Faculty of Business Administration / Department of Finance and Business Economics

This dissertation examines South Korea as an emergent middle power in East Asia, and how this is being reflected on its diplomatic behavior in relation to the processes of regionalism. The literature of middle powers suggests that countries such as South Korea can play useful roles to promote cooperation in several specific areas. In East Asia, the need for regional institutionalization became evident since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997-98, yet the attempts of China and Japan for regional leadership are often viewed as problematic. Hence, this research confirmed its main hypothesis which points to South Korea as a capable middle power to lead East Asian regionalism. Thus, in those particular instances where Korea has chosen to display middlepowermanship – as a catalyst, facilitator and/or manager of regionalist projects – the advancement in the processes of regional institutionalization in East Asia was generally observed. In doing so, this research looked into South Korea’s foreign policy behavior towards East Asian regional processes and towards Northeast Asia as a subregion. Regional institution-building attempts, as well as the creation of regional governance were the main aspects observed; hence this research falls within the theoretical boundaries of international political economy and international relations. Neoliberal theories related to neo-functionalism, institutionalism and especially inter-governmentalism were considered to understand regionalism, while preferring a constructivist point of view to explain the relations among states. A qualitative type of methodology was favored, including interviews with policy-makers and experts, as well as archival research of primary and secondary sources. Ultimately, this study has both practical and theoretical contributions, since the literature on middle powers does not often consider applications to regionalism, a process which is usually advanced and led by great powers. Thus, study conclusions suggest several improved practical understandings of East Asian regionalism in general, recommendations for its continuing advancement and possible future strategies for South Korea’s role in it as the regional middle power. / This dissertation examines South Korea as an emergent middle power in East Asia, and how this is being reflected on its diplomatic behavior in relation to the processes of regionalism. The literature of middle powers suggests that countries such as South Korea can play useful roles to promote cooperation in several specific areas. In East Asia, the need for regional institutionalization became evident since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997-98, yet the attempts of China and Japan for regional leadership are often viewed as problematic. Hence, this research confirmed its main hypothesis which points to South Korea as a capable middle power to lead East Asian regionalism. Thus, in those particular instances where Korea has chosen to display middlepowermanship – as a catalyst, facilitator and/or manager of regionalist projects – the advancement in the processes of regional institutionalization in East Asia was generally observed. In doing so, this research looked into South Korea’s foreign policy behavior towards East Asian regional processes and towards Northeast Asia as a subregion. Regional institution-building attempts, as well as the creation of regional governance were the main aspects observed; hence this research falls within the theoretical boundaries of international political economy and international relations. Neoliberal theories related to neo-functionalism, institutionalism and especially inter-governmentalism were considered to understand regionalism, while preferring a constructivist point of view to explain the relations among states. A qualitative type of methodology was favored, including interviews with policy-makers and experts, as well as archival research of primary and secondary sources. Ultimately, this study has both practical and theoretical contributions, since the literature on middle powers does not often consider applications to regionalism, a process which is usually advanced and led by great powers. Thus, study conclusions suggest several improved practical understandings of East Asian regionalism in general, recommendations for its continuing advancement and possible future strategies for South Korea’s role in it as the regional middle power.

The aim of the master thesis is to characterize and evaluate the current security system in East Asia, to show the security strategies of the system actors and the existing friction points, and to assess the future development of the security system in place. For this purpose the author first defines the East Asia's security system using the conceptual tools of three international relations theories, namely neo-realism, neo-liberalism, and constructivism. In the following section, the security strategies and security issues are discussed. In the final section, the international relations theories are used again to assess the stability of the current security system and lastly the prospects for a change of the system are evaluated.