- Title: Emerging Mega-Asia: History and Concept
- Author: Beomshik Shin
- Journal: Asia Review 11(2)
- Publication Date: August, 2021
- Abstract
Asia is emerging again as the central axis of world history beyond the passivity objectified during the imperialism era and the existence restricted by camp logic during the Cold War era. Efforts to redefine Asia beyond the names and spatial divisions given by others as European powers in the past are being widely attempted in Asia. The present and future of a new Asia can be understood as ‘Mega-Asia.’ In order to capture and understand Mega-Asia, it is necessary to pay attention to the process, in which ‘new continentalism’ and ‘new oceanicism’ as the driving forces for building Asia as a mega-region, created by the dynamics of globalization, regionalization, and regionalism, are connecting the regions in Asia. Thus, the concept of emerging ‘Mega-Asia’ can be an analytical tool that adequately captures the rapidly changing reality of Asia as a networked whole region. We need to develop the concept into a strategic concept that will embrace the future of Asia, that Asians themselves are subjectively constructing beyond the limit from the strategic rivalry of great powers such as the US and China.
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