Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190144 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2018/95
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper identifies historic patterns in the dialectic between nationalism and development across various East, South, and Southeast Asian nations. Nationalism as the rationale for development is used by regimes to achieve high levels of growth, but also generates exclusivism and hostilities, often in order to integrate a political core. Popular nationalism has also dialectically reshaped the goals and patterns of development during the post-Second World War period. The region is divided into zones shaped by twentieth-century historical and geo-political conditions. Colonial and Cold War conditions were as important as internal political and ethnic circumstances. Turning points in the dialectical relationship were common within a region. More recently, a common transregional pattern has emerged with neoliberal globalization being accompanied by exclusivist nationalism.
Subjects: 
Cold War
colonialism
development
exclusivism
nationalism
region
regionalism
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ISBN: 
978-92-9256-537-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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