Rethinking security in East Asia : identity, power, and efficiency / edited by J. J. Suh, Peter J. Katzenstein, and Allen Carlson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sŏ, Chae-jŏng, 1960-

Katzenstein, Peter J.

Carlson, Allen, 1968-

Series:

Studies in Asian security

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International.

National security--East Asia.

National security.

East Asia.

East Asia--Foreign relations.

International relations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Is East Asia heading toward war? Throughout the 1990s, conventional wisdom among U.S. scholars of international relations held that institutionalized cooperation in Europe fosters peace, while its absence from East Asia portends conflict. Developments in Europe and Asia in the 1990s contradict the conventional wisdom without discrediting it. Explanations that derive from only one paradigm or research program have shortcomings beyond their inability to recognize important empirical anomalies. International relations research is better served by combining explanatory approaches from different research traditions. This book makes a case for a new theoretical approach (called "analytical eclecticism" by the authors) to the study of Asian security. It informs the analysis in subsequent chapters of central topics in East Asian security, with specific reference to China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. The authors conclude that the prospects for peace in East Asia look less dire than conventional-in many cases Eurocentric-theories of international relations suggest. At the same time, they point to a number of potentially destabilizing political developments.

Contents:

Rethinking Asian security : a case for analytical eclecticism / Peter J. Katzenstein and Rudra Sil

Beijing's security behavior in the Asia-Pacific : is China a dissatisfied power? / Alastair Iain Johnston

Japan and Asian-Pacific security / Peter J. Katzenstein and Nobuo Okawara

Bound to last? the U.S.-Korea alliance and analytical eclecticism / J. J. Suh

Coping with strategic uncertainty : the role of institutions and soft balancing in Southeast Asia's post Cold War strategy / Yuen Foong Khong

The value of rethinking East Asian security : denaturalizing and explaining a complex security dynamic / Allen Carlson and J. J. Suh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-263) and index.

ISBN:

0804749787

0804749795

OCLC:

54913848