REGIONAL LEADERSHIP IN EAST ASIA

Leader actors may be averse to exploiting their ‘hegemonic’ power and supremacy through singular or independent acts, instead working more in cooperation, conjunction, or consensus with others, as a regional leading partner.

• True 

• False

The exercise of regional leadership cannot make significant contributions to the development of regional multilateralism.

• True

• False

The current literature on regional leadership is largely influenced by ______scholarship

Regional leadership is a complex concept that has come with expectations of behavior and _____

The mainstream scholarship on leadership has assumed that the nation-state is the only real actor in the international system able to perform leadership functions, with non-state actors lacking the _____ to match the state

China is the only regional leader in East Asia.

• True

• False

Which of the following answers are not the four reasons why we should be interested in the theory and practice of regional leadership in East Asia?

• Important region in the political system

• Coherent regional entity

• Important litmus test for China’s approach

• Strengthen the basis of regional-based unipolar world order

• Coherent political system

China together with Japan accounts for 80  percent of the East Asian economy’s GDP.

• False

• True

Which of the following best describes the Multi-agency of regional leadership in East Asia?

• The establishment of a Multi-governing body to oversee all East Asian nations.

• The use of a single agency to provide leadership in all aspects of regional development.

• Coordinated efforts between multiple agencies to take on leadership roles and work towards shared goals in East Asia.

• The establishment of a single governing body to oversee all East Asian nations.

• A movement promoting the adoption of digital technologies in East Asian countries. 

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Multi-agency of regional leadership in East Asia? 

•  Coordinated efforts between multiple agencies

• Involvement of only government agencies

• Taking on leadership roles

• Working towards shared goals

• Coordinated efforts between single agency