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IR theorists typically explain the development of intellectual property rights (IPR) regimes in developing countries as a result of coercive diplomacy on the part of economically developed states seeking to protect the interests of business constituents. We find this model theoretically flawed and suggest an alternative political economy model, derived from the New Institutional Economics literature, that takes account of the internal dynamics of developing states. As those states develop economically, indigenous entrepreneurs make greater demands for IPR protection. Only after developing states are capable of enforcing IPR are they responsive to diplomacy. We demonstrate that domestic factors are statistically significant in the development of IPR regimes in Japan, Korea and the Republic of China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies comparative consumer bankruptcy in the context of the relations between consumer bankruptcy and social policy in South Korea and Japan. South Korea and Japan have faced a rapid increase of consumer debt after the 1997 Asian financial crisis. The weak welfare system failed to mitigate the low-class’s income reduction due to economic crisis. As a result, a lot of people went into bankruptcy in East Asia. Through an empirical analysis on insolvency system, this paper examines the pattern of East Asian model which can be distinguished from continental European and North American approaches to bankruptcy. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

My paper analyzes the dramatic dismemberments of the pilot state economic agencies in three "Bureaucratic Nonliberal Capitalist Countries"?Korea, China, and Japan?and compares the transformations of states? economic roles in three cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why are Japan and Korea taking different paths of immigration policies despite they had shared the similar policies until 2004? I explain this variance focusing on distinct structure of state institutions and civil society as well as alliance pattern ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]