1. Europe/Asia – social policy
Sung Kyun Kwan University
Sven E O Hort

2. The invention of the WS
Welfare State – the end station of Social Policy?
The emergence of European Social Policy
From Bismarck to Beveridge
Social Europe – Union solidarity?
The Nordic Model – the Free Labour Market
The Global turn(s): Japan as No 1?

3. Poor laws and mutualities
Regulating the Poor – the topdown approach
Church and State in Europe
Local authorities – secularizing the State
Mutualities or Common-Pool-Resource Institutions – the bottom-up approach
Industrial mutualities – revolutionary 19th century France leads the way

4. Social Policy and industrialization
The two revolutions: industry and politics
The enlightenment – human rights
The masses – from the countryside to the towns
Industrial conflicts and trade unions
Class conflict in England & Scotland: the levellers and the Chartists
In the footsteps of UK: Germany and US

5. Bismarck: from Prussia to Germany
The Social State after the defeat of France
Nation-building, State formation and industrial capitalist developments
The political threat to NB & SF: the Social Democratic Party
Challenging industrial capitalism: TU
The Bismarckian solution: French mutualities turned tripartite/corporatist

6. The Welfare State versus the Warfare State
From Bismarck to Beveridge
Bismarckian Social Insurance spread around Europe before WWI – from Austria to Russia
The Internationalist Interlude: Russia and the Soviet challenge
The End of Weimar: the Warfare State
Beveridge: the Ukanian Welfare State

7. Social Insurance going West
US: the Promised Land – for Eu Emigrants
No to Kaiser – No to Universal Insurance
The Depression and the End to Economic Man
The New Deal
Social Security
No to Full Employment (Taft-H Law)

8. Post-War Europe The Cold War Divide: the Soviet Model
The Impact of Beveridge: Commonwealth?
The Return of Bismarck – Rebuilding Euro
The European Union: F, G, I & Benelux (6)
In the shadow of the Cold War
Scandinavia – a welfare state on the periphery but no peripheral welfare state

9. In the shadow of the West
Japan – an early welfare state?
Before World War II: a Pan-Asian community?
Taiwan captured
Korea occupied
Into Manchuria and China
During the War: a fictious Pan-Asian community

10. Post-war Asia No Cold war – Hot wars from Northeast to Southeast Asia
Rebuilding Japan: industrial welfare
The Chinese Civil War
The Korean War
The Formosa straight
The Vietnam War

11. The Miracles in East Asia
Japan
Korea
Taiwan
Hong Kong and Singapore?
Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand?
The Crises: I, K & Thailand
After the crisis: springtime for the WS?
The rise of China & Chinese Social Policy

12. The Rise of Asia and the End of the European Welfare State?
The Welfare State between Japan and China
Korea?
Taiwan?
The City Welfare States
The New Welfare States from Indonesia to Myanmar and Vietnam?
Even the North?