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actors (aside from those mentioned above) whose geographic focus and political
and economic interest involve the regionalization of higher education in Asia.
Being strongly influenced by European developments, regionalization of higher
education in Asia research has a strong regional comparative nature with significant
involvement of regional, interregional, and Asian higher education scholars located
within or outside the region. It is also significantly influenced by European and
donor countries’ funding, technical assistance, and capacity building support.
Lastly, regionalization of higher education in Asia research significantly supports
the region’s need for empirical policy-related work, influences regional higher edu-
cation policy making, and even managed to provide arguments for an Asian-based
model for higher education and its regionalization.

Appendixes

Appendix 1: Selected List of Asian Regionalism Research

and Their Focus

Title Political Economics Security

1968 Nye, JS International regionalism:

readings

x

1991 Palmer, ND The New Regionalism in Asia &

Pacific

x

1992 Jayasuriya, K The Dynamics of Economic

Policy Reform in South-East

Asia and the South West Pacific

x

1993 Frankel, J &

Kahler, M

Regionalism & Rivalry: Japan

& the United States in Pacific

Asia

x

1994 Garnaut, R &

Drydale, R

Asia Pacific Regionalism:

readings in international

economic relations

x

1994 Acharya, A An Arms Race in Post-War

Southeast Asia: prospects for

control

x

1994 Capie, D Rival Regions? East Asian

regionalism and its challenge to

the Asia-Pacific

x

1995 Higgots, R &

Stubbs, R

Competing Conceptions of

Economic Regionalism: APEC

versus EAEC in the Asia Pacific

x

1995 Acharya, A &

Stubbs, R

New Challenges for ASEAN:

emerging policy issues

x

1997 Lake, D &

Morgan, P

Regional Orders: building

security in a new world

x

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