Asian Business Essay! (Looking for a professional business major writer ONLY)
“ASIA”
ASIAN BUSINESS AIMS
ASIAN LITERACY
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LITERACY
West-East, East-East
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
HYPOTHESES
“Asian business success” today is part of
a political, economic and cultural response
to historical trauma
Asian political-economic systems challenge
“the standard model”
ASIA AT NIGHT
SOURCE: GOOGLE MAPS
http://www29.homepage.villanova.edu/christopher.haas/SilkRoad-map.jpg
EARLY ROUTES…PRE-HISTORY…
SCYTHIANS…ALEXANDER…INDIA…PERSIA
”SILK ROAD”…
…and SEA trade/migration
TRAVELERS
ACROSS THE
STEPPE
~1900 BCE
Source: “Asia: More Self-Contained” FT 10 Aug 2010
National
Intelligence Council
(NIC):
Mapping the
Global Future:
Projected GDP/cap
2050
India US$19,900
China US$34,500
PriceWaterhouseCoopers “The World in 2050: Beyond the BRICs” March 2008
COMING TO GRIPS WITH ASIA TODAY
The need for a multi-disciplinary approach
History
Politics
International Relations
Political Economy
Economics/Trade
Cultural Studies
COMING TO GRIPS WITH ASIA TODAY
Challenges and questions:
Rise or Rebirth? (Old traditions, New States)
“Clash of civilizations”?
Response to trauma: national PTSD?
Globalization?
Role of the state?
Development and democracy?
Democratic peace?
“Asian values”?
Problems of history
“Scratches on our minds”
Nationalism
The colonial question
POLITICAL ECONOMY
STATES & MARKETS, WEALTH & POWER
AUTARCHY
MERCANTILISM
INTERDEPENDENCE
COMMAND ECONOMIES
THE DEVELOPMENTAL STATE
IS THE PAST PROLOGUE?
NORTHEAST ASIA:
China as the “mother ship”: culture, rice
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Sino-Indic collision in Vietnam
Indian reach
Ethnic shatterbelt
THE CENTRAL ASIAN NEXUS
INDIA
Cultural Glory, Political Inertia
OLD TRADITIONS, NEW STATES
Problems Of History, Problems Of Colonialism
TWO QUOTES FOR TODAY….
The 21st century has opened and will close with two puzzles about the rise of Asia. Today, the puzzle is why Asian societies, long in the doldrums, are now successful. At the century's close, by contrast, historians will want to know why Asian societies succeeded so late, taking centuries to catch up with a Europe that they had outperformed for millenniums…. Centuries of European colonial rule had progressively reduced Asian self-confidence. -- Mahbubani, TIME
[T]he Asian bureaucracy, notably in China and India, remained the bastion of intellectual culture, civilization, and tradition. But it was also the inward-looking, self- satisfied complacency of Asian bureaucracy, combined with the corruption and profligacy of the ruling elites, that grossly underestimated the technological ascendancy of the West…. More than anything else, it was the humiliation caused by colonization and war that drove home the realization that Asian institutions had to change everything even down to the core values.
-- “The Asian Network Economy in the 21st Century”, by Andrew Sheng http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEASTASIAPACIFIC/Resources/226262-1158262834989/EA_Visions_15.pdf