MODERN EAST-ASIA IN WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Applying the large-scale, holistic, and long-time-span heuristic devic es of world-systems analysis, this article highlights the crucial role played by regional geopolitics in East Asian development In regard to large-scare analysis, this article studies interstate dynamics in Eas t Asia and shows how the strategic locations of China, Japan, and Kore a greatly influenced one another's development. This article shows, th rough holistic analysis, that geopolitics often intertwines with emerg ing cultural constructs and changing regional dynamics and, through lo ng-term analysis, that contemporary East Asia must be understood in te rms of its pre-World War II geopolitical development This study contri butes to the existing literature by reintroducing the often neglected geopolitical context into reinterpreting the roles of the market, Conf ucianism, the state, and dependency in the contours of East Asian deve lopment.