Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia
Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia

Author: Yong-Shik Lee

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2023-09-05

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1839983787

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Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia examines the causes of lasting and complex tensions in the region from underlying political, historical, military and economic perspectives; discusses their historical development and political-economic implications for the world; and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace. The book is unique in that it approaches the topic from the historical perspective of each constituent country in the region. Major global powers such as the United States and Russia have also closely engaged in the political and economic affairs of this region through a network of alliances, diplomacy, trade and investment. The book also discusses the influence of these external powers over the crisis, their political and economic objectives in the region, their strategies and the dynamics that their engagement has created. Both South Korea and North Korea have sought reunification of the Korean peninsula, which will have a substantial impact on the region. The book examines its justification, feasibility and effects for the region. The book discusses the role of Mongolia in the context of the power dynamics in Northeast Asia. A relatively small country, in terms of its population, Mongolia has rarely been examined in this context; Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia makes a fresh assessment of its potential role.

Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia
Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia

Author: Peter Hayes

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2015-06-22

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1783741120

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Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex global problems in the region, including nuclear weapons, urban insecurity, energy, and climate change. Detailed case studies of China, North and South Korea, and Japan demonstrate the importance of civil society and ‘civic diplomacy’ in reaching shared solutions to these problems in East Asia and beyond. Each chapter describes regional civil society initiatives that tackle complex challenges to East Asia’s security. In doing so, the book identifies key pressure points at which civil society can push for constructive changes¯especially ones that reduce the North Korean threat to its neighbors. Unusually, this book is both theoretical and practical. Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia presents strategies that can be led by civil society and negotiated by its diplomats to realize peace, security, and sustainability worldwide. It shows that networked civic diplomacy offers solutions to these urgent issues that official ‘complex diplomacy’ cannot. By providing a new theoretical framework based on empirical observation, this volume is a must read for diplomats, scholars, students, journalists, activists, and individual readers seeking insight into how to solve the crucial issues of our time.

China's Major Country Diplomacy: Chinese Characteristics, Connotations, And Paths
China's Major Country Diplomacy: Chinese Characteristics, Connotations, And Paths

Author: Linggui Wang

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2021-07-02

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9811235090

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From the perspective of the interaction between China and the world, China's Major Country Diplomacy: Chinese Characteristics, Connotations, and Paths comprehensively combs the adjustment and transformation of China's diplomatic concept and diplomatic practice, which constitute the whole connotation of diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. Based on the new diplomatic ideas and practices proposed since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, this review volume comprehensively and deeply explores the connotation, expression forms, and promotion path of diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Diplomacy with Chinese characteristics is a series of new ideas, concepts, models, and practices put forward by China as a big country with increasing influence in the world in the new era to meet the needs of its own and world development. Its connotation and extension are different from previous diplomatic ideas and practices, and more different from diplomatic ideas and practices of other major powers in the world today. It represents the future development direction of the world. The special world significance of new thinking and new path will be embodied with the practice of characteristic diplomacy, which will bring structural impact to the world.

The East Asian Peace
The East Asian Peace

Author: M. Weissmann

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-06-12

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 113726473X

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Using a case study based approach, Weissmann analyses the post-Cold War East Asian security setting to demonstrate why there is a paradoxical inter-state peace. He points out processes that have been important for the creation of a continuing relative peace in East Asia, as well as conflict prevention and peacebuilding mechanisms.

Searching for Peace in Asia Pacific
Searching for Peace in Asia Pacific

Author: Annelies Heijmans

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 848

ISBN-13: 9781588262394

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A comprehensive survey of the conflicts in Asia Pacific, peacebuildng activities in the region, and prospects for conflict resolution.

Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia
Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia

Author: Carolina G. Hernandez

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 3319952404

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This book takes up a wide variety of human security challenges beyond the dimension of human conflict, and looks at both natural and human disasters that the East Asian region faces or is attempting to resolve. While discussing various human security issues, the case studies offer practical lessons to address serious human security challenges in the framework of the ASEAN Plus Three and beyond. Against the backdrop of multifaceted globalization and parochial reactions thereto, this book is a powerful contribution to universal human security.

Energy Cooperation in South Asia
Energy Cooperation in South Asia

Author: Mirza Sadaqat Huda

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-13

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781032236926

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This book analyses the key political challenges to regional energy cooperation in South Asia. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy security and geopolitics, natural resource governance and South Asian politics.

The Making of Northeast Asia
The Making of Northeast Asia

Author: Kent Calder

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2010-08-16

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0804775052

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Northeast Asia, where the interests of three major nuclear powers and the world's two largest economies converge around the unstable pivot of the Korean peninsula, is a region rife with political-economic paradox. It ranks today among the most dangerous areas on earth, plagued by security problems of global importance, including nuclear and missile proliferation. Yet, despite its insecurity, the region has continued to be the most rapidly growing on earth for over five decades—and it is emerging as an identifiable economic, political, and strategic region in its own right. As the locus of both economic growth and political-military uncertainty in Asia has moved further to the Northeast, a need has developed for a book that focuses analytically on prospects for Northeast Asian cooperation within the context of both Asia and the Asia-Pacific regional relationship. This book does exactly that, while also offering a more general theory for Asian institution building.

The Architecture of Security in the Asia-Pacific
The Architecture of Security in the Asia-Pacific

Author: Ronald Huisken

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 192166603X

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We cannot expect in East Asia over the foreseeable future to see the sort of conflation of sovereign states that has occurred in Europe. We must anticipate that, for the foreseeable future, the requirement will be for the sensible management and containment of competitive instincts. The establishment of a multilateral security body in East Asia that includes all the key players, and which the major powers invest with the authority to tackle the shaping of the regional security order, remains a critical piece of unfinished business.