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• Part 1: The Northeast Asian Security Complex
• 1. The Northeast Asian Security Complex: History, Power, and Strategic Choices Chung Min Lee and T.J. Pempel
• 2. The Requirements for Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Theory and Reality Ajin Choi
• Part 2: Security Challenges, Drivers, and Issues
• 3. Nuclear Weapons, State Bellicosity, and Prospects for an East Asian Security Architecture Joseph M. Grieco
• 4. Between Multilateralism and Bilateralism Geunwook Lee
• Part 3: State Interests and Strategies
• 5. European Experience and Lessons Hae-Won Jun
• 6. China's Strategic Option: Multilateralism and the Pursuit of Influence Sukhee Han and Luo Jianbo
• 7. What is a 'Liberal' East Asia Policy? Japan and the DPJ Government Yoko Iwama
• 8. ROK: Toward Peace and Cooperation Hyung Min Kim
• 9. Leadership and Commitment: The United States, Its Allies, and Emerging Security Institutions in Northeast Asia Carol Atkinson and Giacomo Chiozza
• Part 4: Actualizing Security Cooperation and Its Future
• 10. The Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue: An Experiment in Track II Multilateral Diplomacy Susan L. Shirk
• 11. Conclusion T.J. Pempel.
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Defining and conceptualizing Northeast Asia's security complex poses unique quandaries. The security architecture in Northeast Asia to date has been predominately U.S.-dominated bilateral alliances, weak institutional structures and the current Six Party Talks dealing with the North Korean nuclear issue. There has been a distinct lack of desire among regional countries as well as the U.S. to follow in the footsteps of Europe with its robust set of multilateral institutions. However, since the late 1990s, there has been burgeoning interest among regional states towards forming new multilateral institutions as well as reforming and revitalizing existing mechanisms. Much of this effort has been in the economic and political arenas, with the creation of bodies such as the East Asian Summit, but there have also been important initiatives in the security sphere. This book offers detailed examinations about how this potentially tense region of the world is redefining certain longstanding national interests, and shows how this shift is the result of changing power relations, the desire to protect hard-won economic gains, as well as growing trust in new processes designed to foster regional cooperation over regional conflict. Presenting new and timely research on topics that are vital to the security future of one of the world's most important geographical regions, this book will be of great value to students and scholars of Asian politics, regionalism, international politics and security studies.
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• Preface
• Defining maritime safety and security
• Legal framework for maritime safety and security and IMO law-making
• Safety of navigation and port state control
• Maritime terrorism and the SUA Convention regime
• Contemporary piracy : nature and reality
• ISPS Code and port & cargo container security
• Enforcement of proliferation security initiative (PSI) and challenges
• Growing roles of coast guards in East Asia
• Conclusion.

In Global Maritime Safety & Security Issues and East Asia, Suk Kyoon Kim offers a multi-disciplinary perspective on various issues of maritime safety and security, focusing on East Asia. Ranging from the definitions of maritime safety and security, this book provides insights on a wide range of maritime safety and security regimes and issues.
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• Foreword Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction
• 1: The Influence of Geopolitics on Maritime Territorial Disputes
• 2: The Geopolitical Considerations of the East Asian Claimant States
• 3: The Senkaku/Diao yu Dispute
• 4: The Paracel and Spratly Disputes
• 5: Geopolitical Interplay in the East and South China Seas
• 6: Conflict Management and Resolution in the East and South China Sea Disputes Conclusion Appendix: Maps of the East and South China Seas Bibliography.
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Geopolitics is a crucial element in understanding international relations in East Asia, with major and medium powers competing for influence. This book examines geopolitics in East Asia, focusing in particular on its major, contentious maritime territorial disputes. It looks in particular detail at the overlapping claims between Japan, China and Taiwan over the Senkaku/Diao yu Islands in the East China Sea as well as the Paracel Islands claimed by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam and the Spratly Islands involving Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam in the South China Sea. The book offers a comparative study of the East and South China Seas by arguing that their respective circumstances are influenced by similar geopolitical considerations; factors such as territory, natural resources and power competition all impact on disputes and broader regional relations. It is precisely the interplay of these geopolitical forces that can lead to the rapid escalation of a maritime territorial dispute or reversely to a diffusion of tensions. The book considers how such disputes might be managed and resolved peacefully, despite the geopolitical conditions that can make co-operation on these issues difficult to achieve. Ralf Emmers examines the prospect for conflict management and resolution by identifying catalysts which may contribute to improving the climate of relations.
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• Table of Contents Introduction: International Cooperation Under Order Transition Jochen Prantl PART I: EXPLAINING COOPERATION- DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
• 1. Effective Multilateralism and Global Order-- Andrew Hurrell
• 2. The Regionalization of Security: A Comparative Analysis-- Louise Fawcett
• 3. China's Approach to Multilateralism in East Asia-- Su Changhe
• 4. Effective Multilateralism-A U.S. Perspective-- Bruce Jentleson
• 5. Japan and Regional Multilateralism in Asia: The Trilateral Strategic Dialogue as a New Institutional Choice-- Kuniko Ashizawa
• 6. Thinking in Time: War Memories, Post-war Reconciliation and Regional Co-operation in Europe and Asia-- Hartmut Mayer
• 7. Effective Multilateralism and Sino-Japanese Reconciliation-- Shogo Suzuki
• 8. Hierarchy and Great Power Cooperation in the East Asian Security Order-- Evelyn Goh
• 9. Formalizing Informal Cooperation?-- Robert Ayson PART II: CASE STUDIES
• 10. Selective or Effective Multilateralism? The Bush Administration's Proliferation Security Initiative and China's Response-- Rosemary Foot
• 11. The Mismanagement of Global Imbalances: Why Did Multilateralism Fail?-- Andrew Walter
• 12. Responding to Climate Change in the Region: New Partnerships and Chinese Leadership-- Katherine Morton
• 13. Global Promulgation - Regional Implementation? The Responsibility to Protect in East Asia-- Jochen Prantl and Ryoko Nakano.
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Western liberal order is in a protracted process of transition. There is no new hegemon willing or able to replace the United States and to push for a redesign of the global governance architecture from scratch. Emerging powers engage in global cooperation in their own way and on their own terms. While there seems to be a growing demand for effective global cooperation, there are no longer universally applicable concepts to analyze it nor a common language with which to describe it. Effective Multilateralism makes the case for a new approach in order to understand and explain global cooperation and collective action juxtaposing the European concept of effective multilateralism with the empirical reality of regional cooperation in East Asia. The careful examination of East Asian cases leads to a better understanding of the scope conditions of analytical frameworks of multilateralism.
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• Institutionalization in northeast Asia: is outside-in regionalization enough? / Yoshinobu Yamamoto
• Institutionalizing East Asia: learning lessons from Europe on regionalism, regionalization, identity and leadership / Richard Higgott, Martina Timmermann
• Normative regionalism in east Asia / Baogang He
• Northeast Asian regionalism at a crossroads: is an east Asian community in sight? / Gilbert Rozman
• Overcoming a difficult past: the history problem and institution building in northeast Asia / Thomas Berger
• The function and dysfunction of identity in an institutionalizing process: the case of northeast Asia / Takashi Oshimura
• Do alliance networks in northeast Asia contribute to peace and stability? The US-Japan alliance in focus / Jitsuo Tsuchiyama
• Northeast Asian security community: from concepts to practices / Shin-wha Lee
• The Chinese approach to regional security institutionalism / Seiichiro Takagi
• The proliferation security initiative from an institutional perspective: an "outside-in" institution? / Chiyuki Aoi
• Institutional linkages and security governance: security multilateralism in the Korean peninsula / Tsutomu Kikuchi
• Institutionalizing trade and investment in east Asia, the FTA and BIT strategies of northeast Asian powers / Keisuke Iida
• Firebreak: east Asia institutionalizes its finances / T.J. Pempel
• China and its neighbours: patterns of trade and investment / John Weiss
• Institutionalizing northeast Asia: the energy market / Stuart Harris
• A small leap forward: regional cooperation for tackling the problems of the environment and natural resources in northeast Asia / Hiroshi Ohta
• Multilevel regionalization through think-tanks, higher education and multimedia / César de Prado
• International migration and human rights: a case for a regional approach in northeast Asia / Tsuneo Akaha, Brian Ettkin
• Human security and northeast Asia: seeds germinating on hard ground / Brian L. Job, Paul M. Evans
• Conclusion: challenges and potentials for institutionalization in northeast Asia / Jitsuo Tsuchiyama.

With the threat of a nuclear North Korea, constant tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and growing posturing over resource-rich territories, how can lasting peace, order, stability, and prosperity be achieved in Northeast Asia? Globalization and China's galloping economy have caused radically different economic growth rates, resulting in constant fluctuations in the balance of power among the nations of Northeast Asia. With new emerging threats to security as well as those posed by environmental degradation and disasters, the old concept of sovereign independence no longer offers satisfactory solutions for Northeast Asia.Alternatives are needed that provide more plausible answers to the region's emerging challenges. "Institutionalizing Northeast Asia" advances the notion of regional institutionalism as a counterweight to the principle of sovereignty. The contributors argue that co-operation through regional institution-building is the best way to deal with the growing intertwinement of global issues and developments and the needs and interests at the regional and national levels. A unified regional voice could also answer the demand for supra-territorial policy responses to such issues as trade, finance, the environment, human rights, and human security.
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• Introduction
• The evolving security architecture in East Asia
• The East Asia Summit: formation and institutional development
• The EAS and ongoing debates on East Asian regionalism
• Conclusion: what to expect from the EAS.

• Contents: Introduction, Tae-Hwan Kwak and Seung-Ho Joo-- Part I: The Inter-Korean Cooperation Approach to Korea Peace Regime Building: A creative formula for building the Korean Peninsula peace regime, Tae-Hwan Kwak-- An arms control approach to building a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula: evaluation and prospects, Yong-Sup Han-- Peace regime building on the Korean Peninsula: process and impact, Seong-Ryoul Cho. Part II: The International Cooperation Approach to Korea Peace Regime Building: The quest for an effective North Korea srategy, C. Kenneth Quinones-- The United States' role in the Korean peace regime building process, Edward A. Olsen-- Still feeling for the stones while crossing the river?: China in peace and security regime building in Northeast Asia, Ren Xiao-- Japan's role in the Korean peace building process, Yoshinori Kaseda-- Russia's role in the Korean peace regime building process, Seung-Ho Joo-- Conclusion: a summary and policy recommendations, Tae-Hwan Kwak and Seung-Ho Joo-- Index.
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A permanent peace regime on the Korean peninsula has yet to be achieved even though the Korean War came to a halt more than half a century ago. Without a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War, the two Korean states are technically still at war. The current situation on the Korean peninsula is extremely tense and precarious, and tensions and distrust between the two Koreas and between the U.S. and North Korea escalated in the wake of North Korea's second underground nuclear weapons testing in 2009. The editors of this volume conceptually present a two-track (inter-Korean and international) approach to Korean peninsula peace-regime building. They argue that an inter-Korean and international approach should be pursued simultaneously for the construction of a permanent peace regime on the Korean peninsula. The contributing authors are established specialists and experts on Korean foreign relations and Northeast Asian international relations. As natives of the U.S., Korea, China, and Japan, they provide objective, scholarly and diverse perspectives on the Korean peace regime building.
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• Foreword, Michael Jonathan Green
• 1. Sino-Japanese Competition in East Asia's Emerging Security Complex, Jeffrey Reeves
• 2. Framing Sino-Japan competition: drivers and responses across the military, economic, and diplomatic sectors, Jeffrey Reeves and Jeffrey Hornung
• PART I: Security Institutions
• 3. Sino-Japanese competition over regional institutions in Asia, Mie Oba
• 4. China, Japan, and economic security competition (and cooperation) in the Asia-Pacific, Ramon Pacheco Pardo
• 5. Sino-Japanese Competition and Energy Security, Vlado Vivoda
• PART II: Security Issues
• 6. Sino-Japan Relations in Asia's Maritime Worlds: Rivalry in the East and South China Seas, Kerry Lynn Nankivell
• 7. From Backdoor to Bridge: Japan as a Western Power in Cyberspace, Lora Saalman
• PART III: Security Relations
• 8. Australia Navigates Sino-Japanese Competition: Engaging, Binding and Hedging, Nick Bisley
• 9. Vietnam between China and Japan in the Asian Security Complex, Alexander L. Vuving and Thuy T. Do
• 10. Navigating between the Dragon and the Sun: The Philippines' Gambit of Pitting Japan against China in the South China Sea Dispute, Renato Cruz De Castro
• Chapter 11: Conclusion: Vying for Influence: Sino-Japanese Competition in Perspective, Kerry Lynn Nankivell, Jeffrey Hornung, and Jeffrey Reeves.
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This volume examines contemporary diplomatic, economic, and security competition between China and Japan in the Asia-Pacific region. The book outlines the role that Sino-Japanese competition plays in East Asian security, an area of study largely overlooked in contemporary writing on Asian security, which tends to focus on US-China relations and/or US hegemony in Asia. The volume focuses on Chinese and Japanese foreign policy under President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and regional security dynamics within and between Asian states/institutions since 2012. It employs regional security complex theory as a theoretical framework to view Chinese and Japanese competition in the Asian region. In doing so, the volume draws on a "levels of analysis" approach to demonstrate the value in looking at security in the Asia-Pacific from a regional rather than global perspective. The vast majority of existing research on the region's security tends to focus on great power relations and treats Asia as a sub-region within the larger global security architecture. In contrast, this volume shows how competition between the two largest Asian economies shapes East Asia's security environment and drives security priorities across Asia's sub-regions. As such, this collection provides an important contribution to discussion on security in Asia; one with potential to influence both political and military policy makers, security practitioners, and scholars. This book will be of much interest to students of Asian politics, regional security, diplomacy, and international relations.
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• Security and strategy
• Chinese security culture
• China's unsettled sovereignty
• Korean security culture
• Korea's nuclear polarization
• Japanese security culture
• Japan's delayed reactions
• Combined effects strategy.

• Introduction: Why strategic uncertainty?-- Elena Atanassova-Cornelis and Frans-Paul Van der Putten PART I: EVOLVING REGIONAL SECURITY ORDER IN EAST ASIA - KEY PERSPECTIVES
• 1. Theoretical Approaches to Asia's Changing Security Order-- Nick Bisley
• 2. East Asian Security, Policy Debates and American Leadership-- Robert Sutter
• 3. China's Approach to the US Role in East Asia: The Dynamics of Volatile Competition-- Shi Yinhong PART II: EAST ASIAN RESPONSES TO STRATEGIC UNCERTAINTY
• 4. 'Keeping the United States In': Japan and Regional Order in East Asia-- Kuniko Ashizawa
• 5. The US Security Role in South Korea: Issues that Test South Korean Confidence in the US Commitment-- Larry Niksch
• 6. Political Resolve and Strategic Uncertainty in Taiwan-US Relations-- Alexis Littlefield
• 7. New Strategic Uncertainty and Security Order in Southeast Asia-- Carlyle A. Thayer PART III: ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF REGIONAL SECURITY ORDER
• 8. A US-China Dual Leadership in East Asia?-- Quansheng Zhao
• 9. Non-Traditional Security Cooperation and Northeast Asian Regional Order-- Jaewoo Choo
• 10. Power Bumps on the Way to Regional Community: Asia's Mixed Security Logics-- Alice Ba Conclusion: A post-US regional order in the making? East Asia's security futures-- Frans-Paul van der Putten and Elena Atanassova-Corne.
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There is a significant uncertainty around US security commitment to East Asia over the next 15-20 years, underpinned by China's economic and military rise. This new collection investigates how and whether this affects the present-day strategic perceptions and behaviour of East Asian nations, and of the US itself. By exploring how regional actors deal with uncertainties that are inherent to the current geopolitical situation in East Asia, the contributors demonstrate that strategic uncertainty has become a major factor in the shaping of the security order in East Asia, which has resulted in the emergence of alternative models of order that do not necessarily exclude America.
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• Introduction
• 1. The Rise of East and South-East Asia: Challenges and Security Perspectives Andrew T. H. Tan International Relations and Security Perspectives
• 2. China's International Relations and Security Perspectives Jing Huang
• 3. The Limitations of Deterrence: China's Response to Military Balancing in the Western Pacific Jonathan Holslag
• 4. The "China Threat" Conundrum in East and South-East Asia Andrew T. H. Tan
• 5. The False Promise of Economic Interdependence: Chinese Foreign Policy in North-East Asia Nicholas Khoo
• 6. China's Approach to North Korea: Seeking Stability and Influence Amid Changing Circumstances and Conflicting Imperatives Robert G. Sutter
• 7. China-Japan Relations: Competition Amidst Interdependence Paul J. Smith
• 8. China and Taiwan Relations: Challenges and Prospects Sheryn Lee
• 9. China-South-East Asian Relations Since the Cold War Ja Ian Chong
• 10. Japan - (More or Less) Normal Military Power Axel Berkofsky
• 11. The Future of the US-Japan Alliance Christopher W. Hughes
• 12. North Korea's Security Perspectives Hazel Smith
• 13. North Korea's Impact on North-East Asian Security Nolan Theisen
• 14. Inter-Korean Relations and the Challenge of North-East Asian Regional Security John Swenson-Wright
• 15. South-East Asia's International Relations and Security Perspectives Jurgen Haacke
• 16. The USA's Relations with East and South-East Asia Mark Beeson Regional Non-Traditional Security Issues
• 17. Globalization and East and South-East Asia Alistair D. B. Cook
• 18. Environmental Challenges in East and South-East Asia J. Jackson Ewing
• 19. Environmental Challenges in China Graeme Lang
• 20. Future Pandemics: Transnational Health Challenges in East and South-East Asia Allen Yu-Hung Lai, Adam Kamradt-Scott and Richard Coker
• 21. Transnational Organized Crime in East and South-East Asia Roderic Broadhurst and Vy Kim Le
• 22. Terrorism in South-East Asia After 9-11 Andrew T. H. Tan
• 23. Maritime Security in East and South-East Asia Justin V. Hastings
• 24. Demographic Ageing in China: Economic Problem or Social Opportunity? Phil Mullan and Bill Durodie
• 25. Japan's Demographic Crisis: Security Implications and Obstacles to Resolving an Issue Symptomatic of National Decline Brad Williams
• 26. The Future of Regionalism in East and South-East Asia Christopher B. Roberts.
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The economic growth of East and South-East Asia in the context of the global financial crisis has strengthened the view that this region is emerging in the 21st century as the most economically vibrant region in the world. With some of the largest economies, and generally high economic growth rates compared to the rest of the world, it is unsurprising that East and South-East Asia has become the subject of global interest. East Asia's rise inevitably focuses attention on the issue of China's emergence as a regional and global power. Such a prospect challenges the current status quo, in which the region is dominated by the USA and its regional allies, and issues in Sino-US strategic relations have raised global awareness of the need to understand this pivotal region better. In addition, the Taiwan issue continues to evoke nationalist sentiments in China, and North Korea continues to threaten regional stability. Non-traditional (or alternative) security issues are also of major importance in the region, including natural disasters and epidemics, as well as challenges relating to human rights and governance, transnational crime, demographic issues, economics and trade and regionalism. This Handbook aims to offer an insight into these issues. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first, International Relations and Security Perspectives, will focus on the international relations of the region, paying special attention to the key state players. The chapter contributions will examine the security perspectives, and foreign and defence policies of these states, as well as key bilateral relationships. The second section will examine key Regional Non-traditional Security Issues, including globalization, transnational health challenges, population growth and the environment.
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• Introduction
• Part I. From security isolationism to promoting regional multilateralism. Understanding why states pursue regional security multilateralism ; Japan and its regional security isolationism during the Cold War ; Rethinking regional security isolationism and multilateralism
• Part II. The pivot toward regional security multilateralism. The making of the Nakayama Proposal ; Delivering and defending the Nakayama Proposal ; The Miyazawa Initiatives and Japan's leadership in creating the ASEAN Regional Forum
• Part III. Japan's role in regional security multilateralism. Japan and regional security multilateralism, 1994-2000 ; Japan and widening regional security multilateralism
• Conclusion

This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia's first multilateral security forum in the early 1990s, emerging as a regional leader. Overcoming Isolationism explores what led to this surprising about-face and offers a corrective to the misperception that Japan's security strategy is reactive to US pressure and unresponsive to its neighbors. Paul Midford draws on newly released official documents and extensive interviews to reveal a quarter century of Japanese leadership in promoting regional security cooperation. He demonstrates that Japan has a much more nuanced relationship with its neighbors and has played a more significant leadership role in shaping East Asian security than has previously been recognized.
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• Understanding why states pursue regional security multilateralism
• Japan and its regional security isolationism during the Cold War
• Rethinking regional security isolationism and multilateralism
• The making of the Nakayama proposal
• Delivering and defending the Nakayama proposal
• The Miyazawa initiatives and Japan's leadership in creating the ASEAN Regional Forum
• Japan and regional security multilateralism, 1994-2000
• Japan and widening regional security multilateralism

This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia's first multilateral security forum in the early 1990s, emerging as a regional leader. Overcoming Isolationism explores what led to this surprising about-face and offers a corrective to the misperception that Japan's security strategy is reactive to US pressure and unresponsive to its neighbors. Paul Midford draws on newly released official documents and extensive interviews to reveal a quarter century of Japanese leadership in promoting regional security cooperation. He demonstrates that Japan has a much more nuanced relationship with its neighbors and has played a more significant leadership role in shaping East Asian security than has previously been recognized.
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• The political economy of regional security in East Asia / Avery Goldstein and Edward D. Mansfield
• Finance and security in East Asia / Benjamin J. Cohen
• Regional economic institutions and East Asian security / Miles Kahler
• The spillover effect of the ASEAN plus three process on East Asian security / Wu Xinbo
• Disputes over territories, maritime rights and interests in East Asia and their political-economic implications / Zhang Tuosheng
• The cult of energy insecurity and great power rivalry across the Pacific / Danielle F. S. Cohen and Jonathan Kirshner
• Regime insecurity and non-combat military operations : the effect of economic growth on military strategy in China / M. Taylor Fravel
• Information age economics and the future of the East Asian security environment / Michael Horowitz
• The China-U.S. handshake in Northeast Asia : the key to "dual stability" in bilateral ties and the regional equilibrium / Yuan Peng.

While, over the last 30 years, the global economy's center of gravity has shifted to East Asia, the region has remained surprisingly free of interstate military conflict. Yet this era of peace and growth has been punctuated by periodic reminders of enduring security problems in the region - from China's military modernization, to unresolved territorial disputes, to persistent tensions on the Korean peninsula. This volume is one of the first to treat these issues of economics and security as interconnected rather than separate. Its authors - leading scholars from the U.S. and China - shed new light on this important nexus by applying insights from a rich variety of approaches to explore and explain the dynamics of a region whose importance for students of both international political economy and international security has grown dramatically. They show that both economic and security 'fundamentals' matter if one is to understand the reasons for, and evaluate the durability of, East Asia's recent peace and prosperity.
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