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World War II Impacting Colonized Asia -- Sub-Regional Developmental Divergence Widened -- Four Sub-Regions' Key Features -- Four Regionalisms' Sustainability -- Societal Types, Legislative Types, and Legislative Types Salience Defined -- Four Regionalisms: Societal Types Comparison -- Four Regionalisms: Legislative Types Comparison -- Four Regionalisms: Legislative Types Salience -- Responses to Hyperdemocratization and Hyperglobalization -- Scenarios for Four Regionalisms -- Future Scenarios of Four Asian Regionalisms -- Pax Consortis on the Horizon -- Conclusion.

This book attempts to develop a novel way of conceptualizing regionalism under hyper-globalization. Until recently, regionalism has been often framed in terms of economic interdependence and security connectivity in which sovereign states are the key navigators within the liberal world order. Under hyper-globalization in the third millennium, hyper-globalization forces us to capture global politics at two more levels of measurement at the state level and both there below and there above. First, how 29 Asian sovereign states join multilateral treaty participation to develop their global quasi-legislative types and how citizens' satisfaction with quality of life in 29 civil societies shapes their societal types. Second, relating these two features above and below sovereign states, the book attempts to measure the features and speculate on the futures of four Asian regionalisms (Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia) and their prospect of the demographically largest continent called Asia in the twenty-first century. Regionalism is measured by the proclivity of 600 multilateral treaty participation in terms of speed (cautious versus agile), angle (global commons versus individual interests) and strategy (aspirational bonding versus mutual binding), whereas quality of life is measured by citizens' satisfaction with 16 domains, aspects and styles of individual daily life in terms of survival (or materialism), social relations (post-materialism) and public policy preponderance. The book opens an innovative vista to better understand tumultuous global politics.

Praise for 'Digitized Statecraft in Multilateral Treaty Participation: Global Quasi-Legislative Behavior of 193 Sovereign States' -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Author Bios -- Tables and Figures -- Part I: Calculus of Statecraft -- Chapter 1. Aphorism by Pundits: Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes -- Chapter 2. The Advent of Globalization and Multilateral Treaties: Data-Driven Empirical Modelling -- Part II: One Hundred Ninety-Three Calculi of Statecraft -- Chapter 3. The Development of Multilateral Treaty Participation -- Chapter 4. Three Dimensions of Global Legislative Politics: Ten Regional Groups and Six Policy Domains -- Chapter 5. Eight Types of Globalizing Semi-Sovereign States -- Part III: Sinic Calculi of Statecraft -- Chapter 6. Adaptation to Multilateral Treaties -- Chapter 7. Changing Priorities of Six Policy Domains -- Chapter 8. Multilateral Treaty Participation Triggers Upward Leap in Sinic Asia -- Conclusion: The Future of Globalizing Semi-Sovereign States: Global Legislative Politics through Multilateral Treaties -- Reference. .

AbstractThe paper attempts to construct a global model of a social contract using well-known metaphors of two great philosophers: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke. By modelling a global social contract, I mean the formulation of a social contract using two sets of data: one is global citizens' preferences about values and norms while the other is sovereign states' participation in multilateral treaties. Both Rousseau and Locke formulate their versions of social contract theories in the national context of eighteenth-century Europe. This paper tries my hands on extending their theories to the global context. This paper attempts to link empirically the relationship between global citizens' preferences as gauged by the World Values Survey and sovereign states' participation in 120 multilateral treaties deposited to the United Nations. To see the link between citizens and treaties (quasi-legislative outcomes, sort of), dimensional similarities of the cosmos of citizens' preference and the cosmos of sovereign states' willingness to join multilateral treaties are examined. Once done, all the sovereign states are located in each of the two cosmoses, citizens and states, and the correlation coefficients between them are measured. Based on these empirical results, the nature of the global quasi-legislative process is clarified. Conclusions and implications are drawn.