Globalisation, Regionalisation, and State

Today I read a PhD thesis which my supervisor recommended due to he thinks that the guy's research question might be similar with mine, or shall I say that reversedly, i.e. my research question migh be similar with his.

Initially I was surprised by our similar thinking toward a state developmental route, he tries to argue how the globalisation in terms of globally political economic restruction reshapes the state and how such state response intensifies the internationalization of a state. This kind of dialect approch is very favoured by me.

However, I found that he deals with the relations between globalisation and a state (South Korea), and how they interact with each other. He does not contend that global structural change is a structure in which the state being an agent; moreover he insists that the domestic change will mainly cause the transition from a developmental state to a liberalised state.

Coming back to my research, at the first time my framework put the state development into the regional context as a result of my argument of postwar East Aisan industralization cannot be realised until relating them to the context of geopolitics and economic regionalisation. As such, my research does more or less discuss the interaction between regional structural change and a state's response. My supervisor reminded me of the force of globalisation need to be paid attention but until I read the guy's thesis do I know what the difference lies. Everytime I read a literature, always being aware of finding the gap between us. This time I have found that even the similar approach with different view of research structure will lead to different framework, definitely.