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The Northeast Asian Regional Context for Environmentalism: Assessing Environmental Goals against Other Priorities in the 1990s1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2016

Gilbert Rozman
Gilbert Rozman*
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Princeton University
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Abstract

Environmental goals are linked to regionalism, but they are often a low priority for advocates of nationalism. Early in the 1990s idealists assumed that reallocations of money, newly active social movements, and a lively process of regionalism would boost environmentalism to one of the top priorities across Northeast Asia. Soon they found, as regionalism floundered, that countries did not have a strong commitment to the environment and some showed little concern. In a region where state-centered development and national dignity remain powerful concerns, environmental hopes rest on gradual acceptance as a secondary theme as part of balanced regionalism. After fading before great power competition in 1996–99, regionalism made a partial comeback in 2000. Hopes for environmental cooperation rest on new gains for regionalism, but strains in the summer of 2001 suggest that progress will be slow.

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Journal of East Asian Studies , Volume 1 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Perspectives on Environmental Protection in Northeast Asia , August 2001 , pp. 13 - 30
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Copyright © East Asia Institute 

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