Christopher M. Dent BA (Oxford Brookes), MA (Leeds), PGCE (York), PhD (Hull) Reader in the East Asia's International Political Economy Tel: 0113 343 6470 Fax: 0113 343 6808 Email: c.m.dent@leeds.ac.uk Korea Research Hub (KRH) link: www.leeds.ac.uk/krh Research Interests Major Publications Consultancies Conferences and other activities Funded research projects Undergraduate teaching Graduate teaching Departmental responsibilities

Research Interests

• The international political economy of East Asia
• Free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific
• East Asian regionalism and regionalisation
• Foreign economic policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan
• East Asian developmental state policies and theory
• Economic security theory
• East Asia's economic relations with the European Union

Publications

Books

New publication...

East Asian Regionalism, Routledge, London (published January 2008)

East Asia is a region that holds much fascination for many people. It is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse regions and is also becoming an increasingly coherent region through the inter-play of various integrative economic, political and socio-cultural processes. Such a development is generally referred to as 'regionalism', which itself has become a defining feature of the contemporary international system, and this book explores the various ways in which East Asian regionalism continues to deepen. Focusing on the main themes of the East Asia region and the study of regionalism, economic regionalism and East Asia's new economic geography, Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), trans-regionalism, East Asia's new free trade agreement trends and key transnational issues in East Asia such as international migration and energy security, East Asian Regionalism will be an essential text for courses on East Asian regionalism, Asian politics and Asian economics.Key pedagogical features include:

• end of chapter 'study questions' case studies that discuss topical issues with study questions also provided useful tables and figures which illustrate key regional trends in East Asia
• extensive summary conclusions covering the chapter's main findings from different international political economy perspectives.
• useful tables and figures which illustrate key regional trends in East Asia
• extensive summary conclusions covering the chapter's main findings from different international political economy perspectives.

See sample graphics from the book...

• Regional Production Networks in East Asia (Toyota, 2006)
• East Asia's Regional Air and Sea Transportation Networks
• Telecoms Traffic in the East Asia Region, 2000 and 2005
• World Cities in the East Asia Region
• International Migration Flows in East Asia
• East Asia's Main Energy Import Supply Routes and Flows
• Free Trade Agreements in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific, by June 2007
• Chiang Mai Initiative of Currency Swap Agreements, by May 2007
• Global Map of Regional Economic Organisations
• East Asian membership of Regional Frameworks and Organisations

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Single Authored Books

• East Asian Regionalism, Routledge, London (2008)
• New Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (2006)
• The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (2002)
• The European Union and East Asia: An Economic Relationship, Routledge, London (1999)
• The European Economy: The Global Context, Routledge, London (1997)

Edited Books

• China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia, (editor), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (forthcoming, June 2008)
• Asia-Pacific Economic and Security Co-operation, (editor), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (2003)
• Northeast Asian Regionalism: Learning from the European Experience, (co-editor), Routledge-Curzon, London (2002)
• Core Economics (1995) Heinemann, London. (co-edited with Frank Livesey, Linda Thomas and Keith Wood)

Journal Articles (recent and forthcoming)

• 'The Asian Development Bank and Developmental Regionalism in East Asia', (2008), Third World Quarterly, Vol 29(4), pp 767-86.
• 'Full Circle? Ideas and Ordeals of Creating a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP)' (forthcoming 2007), Pacific Review, Vol 20(4), pp 447-74.
• 'The International Political Economy of ASEAN Economic Integration and Bilateral FTAs', (2007), Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Vol 26(1), pp 51-75.
• 'The New Economic Bilateralism in Southeast Asia: Region-Convergent or Region-Divergent?', (2006), International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol 6(1), pp 81-111.
• 'Bilateral Free Trade Agreements: Boon or Bane for Regional Co-operation in East Asia', (2005), European Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol 4(2), pp 287-314.
• 'Taiwan and the New Regional Political Economy of East Asia', (2005), China Quarterly, Vol 182, pp 385-406.
• ‘The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) and Inter-Regionalism: Towards a Theory of Multilateral Utility’, (2004), Asian Survey, Vol 44(2), pp 213-236.
• ‘Transnational Capital, the State and Foreign Economic Policy: Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan’ (2003), Review of International Political Economy, Vol 10(2), pp 246-77.
• ‘Networking the Region? The Emergence and Impact of Asia-Pacific Bilateral Free Trade Agreements’, (2003) The Pacific Review, Vol 16(1), pp 1-28.
• ‘Taiwan’s Foreign Economic Policy: The Liberalisation Plus Approach of an Evolving Developmental State’, (2003) Modern Asian Studies, Vol 37(2), pp 461-84.
• ‘From Inter-Regionalism to Trans-Regionalism? The Future of ASEM’ (2003) Asia-Europe Journal, Vol 1(2), pp 1-13.
• ‘Reconciling Multiple Economic Multilateralisms: The Case of Singapore’ (2002) Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol 24(1), pp 146-65.
• ‘Being Pulled into China’s Orbit? Navigating Taiwan’s Foreign Economic Policy’ (2001) Issues and Studies, Vol 37(5), pp 1-34.
• ‘The Eurasian Economic Axis: Its Significance for East Asia’ (2001) Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 60(2), pp 731-59.
• ‘Singapore’s Foreign Economic Policy: The Pursuit of Economic Security’ (2001) Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol 23(1), pp 1-23.
• ‘ASEM and the Cinderella Complex of EU - East Asia Economic Relations’, (2001) Pacific Affairs, Vol 74(1), pp 25-52.

Book Chapters (recent)

• 'The Rise of the New Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Era? Implications for Regional and Global Economic Systems', (2008) in A. Bösl, W. Breytenbach, T. Hartzenberg, C. McCarthy and K. Schade (eds) Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook (2008), Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, Stellenbosch.
• 'What Region to Lead? Developments in East Asian Regionalism and Questions of Regional Leadership', (forthcoming June 2008) in C.M. Dent (ed.) China , Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• 'A Shrimp Among the Whales? Korea in the Northeast and East Asia Regional System' (with Christoph Bluth , forthcoming June 2008) in C.M. Dent (ed.) China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• 'Regional Leadership in East Asia: Towards New Analytical Approaches', (forthcoming June 2008) in C.M. Dent (ed.) China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• 'The Economic Geography of Regionalisation in East Asia and Europe ', (forthcoming 2007) in P. Murray (ed) Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux, Palgrave, Basingstoke.
• 'Economic Security', (2006) in A. Collins (ed) Contemporary Security Studies , Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• 'The State and Transnational Capital in Adaptive Partnership: Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan', (forthcoming 2006) in H. Yeung (ed.) 'Handbook of Research on Asian Business', Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• 'Europe , East Asia and ASEM: Beyond the Triadic Political Economy?', (2005) in H. Hanggi, R. Roloff and J. Rueland (eds) 'Inter-Regionalism and International Politics: Stepping Stone to Global Governance?', Routledge-Curzon, London .
• 'The New International Political Economy of East Asia and the Developmental State' (2004) in L. Low ( ed.), 'Remaking the Developmental State', Nova Publishers.
• 'The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia : Economic Security Perspectives' (2004) in N. Freeman (ed.), 'Foreign Investment in Southeast Asia', Routledge-Curzon, London .
• 'New Economic and Security Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific: An Introduction', (2003) in C.M. Dent (ed.) 'Asia-Pacific Economic and Security Co-operation: New Regional Agendas', Palgrave, Basingstoke .
• 'The Asia-Pacific's New Economic Bilateralism and Regional Political Economy', (2003) in C.M. Dent (ed.) 'Asia-Pacific Economic and Security Co-operation: New Regional Agendas', Palgrave, Basingstoke .
• 'Prime Dimensions of the New Economic and Security Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific: A Conclusion', (2003) in C.M. Dent (ed.) 'Asia-Pacific Economic and Security Co-operation: New Regional Agendas', Palgrave, Basingstoke .
• 'The Pursuit of Economic Security in Taiwan 's Foreign Economic Policy' (2003), in M. Edmonds (ed.) 'New Security Challenges in East Asia', South African Institute of International Affairs Press, Johannesburg .
• 'Northeast Asia : Developmental Political Economy and the Prospects for Regional Economic Integration' (2003) in F.K. Liu and P. Regnier, (eds) 'Regionalism in East Asia : Paradigm Shifting?' , RoutledgeCurzon Press, London .
• 'Introduction: Northeast Asia - A Region in Search of Regionalism?' (2002) in C.M. Dent and D.W.F. Huang (eds) 'Northeast Asian Regionalism: Learning from the European Experience', Curzon Press, London .
• 'The International Political Economy of Northeast Asian Economic Integration' (2002) in C.M. Dent and D.W.F. Huang (eds) 'Northeast Asian Regionalism: Learning from the European Experience', Curzon Press, London .

Consultancies

• Economics and Business Education Association, Yorkshire Branch Chair, 1992-1994; Council Member, 1992-1995; Education Committee Member, 1994-1996; Higher Education Group Chair, 1994-1996
• External Examiner, Oxford Brookes University, Economics Field (2001-)
• External Examiner, School of Oriental and African Studies, Politics Field (2005-)
• Editorial Board, Asia-Europe Journal
• UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2001 to present) - consultancy work for the Research Analysts team, Southeast Asia section
• Asia-Europe Foundation (2002 to present)
• Expert Group Member, Evian Group (2003 to present) - The Evian Group is a think tank dedicated to the advancement of Asia-Europe relations.

Conferences and other activities

• Invited Speaker, New Developments in East Asian Regionalism: Implications for the European Union, Network for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 8 May 2008.
• Team Reviewer / Advisor on Chile’s free trade agreement policy as part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum’s Individual Action Plan (IAP) process, Santiago, Chile, 21-23 April 2008.
• Invited Speaker, East Asian Regionalism: Key Issues, Future Directions, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 21 April 2008; Catholic University, Valparaiso, Chile, 23 April 2008.Visiting Professor, University of Nottingham, Ningbo Campus, Ningbo, China, 3-7 March 2008.
• Invited Speaker, The Rise of the New FTA / EPA Era: Implications for Regional and Global Economic Systems, Trade Law Centre of South Africa (TRALAC), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 6 November 2007.
• Invited Speaker, Japan and New Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific, Nissan Institute, University of Oxford, 4 May 2007.
• Invited Speaker, Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux, CERC International Conference , University of Melbourne , Melbourne , 6-7 December 2006.
• Invited Speaker, Annual Trade Law Centre of South Africa (TRALAC) Conference: Economic Partnership Agreements, Cape Town, 5-6 October 2006.
• Invited Speaker, Eighth Annual Conference of the Economic Freedom Network Asia: Preferential Trade Agreements - Local Solutions for Gobal Free Trade?, Kuala Lumpur, 12-13 September 2006.
• Published submitted evidence, House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: Seventh Report on East Asia, China - Europe - US Relations, August 2006.
• Invited Speaker, Latin American Trade Network, Roundtable Meeting: Could Regionalism Leverage Global Governance?, Buenos Aires, 28-29 July 2006.
• Invited Speaker, Workshop on Free Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 6 July 2006.
• Delegate, Fifth Europe - Asia Young Leaders Forum, organized by the BMW Foundation. Hanoi, 27-30 April 2006.
• Invited Speaker, APEC 2005 International Symposium, Busan, South Korea, 10-12 November 2005.
• Invited Speaker, Taiwan Global Investment Forum, 17-18 October 2005, Landmark Hotel, London.
• Invited Speaker, ASEM-6 Preparatory Conference , Helsinki University , Helsinki , 14-15 September 2005.
• Invited Testimony Witness to the US - China Economic and Security Review Commission, US Congress. Presenting analysis on 'China 's Economic Relationship with the European Union', Dirksen Senate Building, Washington DC, 22 July 2005.
• Delegate, Third Europe - Asia Young Leaders Forum, organized by the BMW Foundation. Beijing, 9-12 September 2004.
• ‘The Asia-Europe Meeting and Multilateral Utility’, key note lecture at the German Asian Studies Association 2003 Workshop Conference, Berlin, 22-23 May 2003.
• ‘Japan and New Free Trade Agreement Projects in the Asia-Pacific’, paper presented at the Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York, 27-29 March 2003.
• Selected expert speaker at the Seventh Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) University, Barcelona, 21 November 2002. Lecture entitled, ‘From Inter-Regionalism to Trans-Regionalism? Future Challenges for ASEM’.
• Principal organiser of research workshop entitled, ‘Asia-Pacific Economic and Security Cooperation: New Regional Agendas’?, University of Hull, Hull, 5-6 September 2002.
• ‘Being Pulled into Orbit? Navigating Taiwan’s Foreign Economic Policy around China’s Gravitational Forces’, talk presented at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, 14 December 2001.
• Delegate, Fifth Asia-Europe Young Leaders Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, 8-12 October 2001. Elected as Chair of the ‘SME Co-operation’ Working Group (one of four WGs).

Funded research projects

• Economic Bilateralism and Regionalism in South East Asia, British Academy Committee for Southeast Asia (£3,000), 2004/05
• Lattice Regionalism: The Emergence of Asia-Pacific Bilateral Free Trade Agreements, Economic and Social Research Council, (£14,100), 2002/03
• South Korea's Foreign Economic Policy, British Academy, (£1,370), 2000
• Singapore's Foreign Economic Policy, British Academy Committee for Southeast Asia, (£1,750), 2000
• Taiwan's Foreign Economic Policy, EU-China Academic Network, (£1,800), 2000

Undergraduate teaching

• EAST 3270 Economic Development in East Asia
• EAST 3604 Korea: Politics, Economy and International Relations
• EAST 3703 South East Asia in its Global Context

Graduate teaching

• EAST 5301M East Asian Regionalism (Online MA)
• EAST 5022M Korea (Online MA)
• EAST 5041M Political Economy of the Pacific Rim (Online MA)
• EAST 5041M Political Economy of the Pacific Rim

Departmental responsibilities

• Programme Director, MA (Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Asia Pacific Studies, South East Asian Studies, East Asian Regional Development and CCBD MA Programmes)
• Member of DEAS Managment Committee
• School (SLMC) Postgraduate Committee member
• Staff-Student Committee
• Co-Webmaster, Dept of East Asian Studies