North Korea And Northeast Asian Regional Security

Author : Simon Xu-Hui Shen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317573371

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North Korea and Northeast Asian Regional Security by Simon Xu-Hui Shen Pdf

With its unstable and intermittent nuclear weapon project, and the recent leadership succession issue, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been a source of insecurity for the past decade in this region, in addition to the delicate international relations among the powerful China, United States, Japan, and Russia. The essence of DPRK issue lies in the instability and uncertainty of nuclear development that even the slightest miscalculation by any one power could disturb the sensitive balance of relationships, creating a butterfly effect with a catastrophic result. Drawing on various perspectives on the interaction over DPRK and other regional powers, this volume seeks to explore the role of DPRK in Northeast Asia, and its implication to regional security as a whole. The volume does not confirm a particular position over DPRK’s nuclear showdown; rather it invites scholars to provide assessments from the viewpoints of neighbouring powers in order to present a more complete understanding of the leading issue in Northeast Asia. The volume will serve as an invaluable resource for policymakers, students and scholars of North Korean politics and international relations. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Asian Development.

Author : Tae-Hwan Kwak,Seung-Ho Joo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317086628

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North Korea and Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia by Tae-Hwan Kwak,Seung-Ho Joo Pdf

Relations between the two Koreas continue to be hostile, volatile and unpredictable with North Korea’s nuclear issue remaining as untamed as ever. As such, there is a growing urgency for security cooperation in Northeast Asia to be given immediate attention. The key players in the region - the US, China, Japan and Russia - are keenly aware of the security threat of an armed clash between North and South Korea and are committed to denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. This book explores the domestic factors of the two Koreas and the four major powers that influence their security policies towards North Korea and Northeast Asia. This well thought out and consistently analysed volume has huge potential to frame the conversation on Northeast Asian relations in the coming years.

Author : Hyung-Kook Kim,Myŏng-sŏp Kim,Amitav Acharya
Publisher : 연세대학교출판부
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Corée du Nord
ISBN : UOM:39015078863803

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Northeast Asia and the Two Koreas by Hyung-Kook Kim,Myŏng-sŏp Kim,Amitav Acharya Pdf

Author : Takashi Inoguchi,Grant B. Stillman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Asia Northeastern
ISBN : UCSD:31822034317008

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North-East Asian Regional Security by Takashi Inoguchi,Grant B. Stillman Pdf

North-East Asia is a region where both economic dynamism & power contestation are intensely manifested. Presented in the form of essays, this publication investigates the role that international institutions can or might play in certain enduring & developing security problems in North-East Asia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : East Asia
ISBN : UIUC:30112060531636

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Northeast Asia Regional Security and the United States Military by Anonim Pdf

This is the 47th volume in the Occasional Paper series of the United States Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Among its many contributions to United States security, two noted repositories of strategic expertise within the United States Army are its foreign area officer cadre and the Department of Social Sciences faculty at the United States Military Academy. This collection of papers on Northeast Asian regional security taps the combined strength of both; its authors are four Army officers with demonstrated regional expertise, all currently or formerly assigned to West Point's Department of Social Sciences. The combined set of papers covers a broad and relevant swath of territory, both geographic and conceptual. The first paper, by Jay Parker, addresses the regional security context with special emphasis on that strategic landscape as viewed from the perspective of Japanese security and the United States' role both in Japanese security and within the broader region. Sue Bryant then fits the Korean peninsula into that regional security context, adding special emphasis on the Korean road toward unification and on the continuing U.S. military presence in Korea both for peninsular and regional security reasons. Finally, Russ Howard and Al Wilner add China to the mix and also add the third level of analysis -- their focus is on post September 11, 2001 issues and opportunities, and the specific military-to-military dimension of the United States' overall military presence and policy. Together, the papers cover the region as well as policy recommendations from macro U.S. security and military policy, to force presence, to the significant roles of individual service members.

Author : Scott Snyder,University of British Columbia. Program on Canada-Asia Policy Studies
Publisher : Program on Canada-Asia Policy Studies, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia c2000.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000048997232

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The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization by Scott Snyder,University of British Columbia. Program on Canada-Asia Policy Studies Pdf

Author : Samuel S. Kim,Tai Hwan Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 074251711X

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North Korea and Northeast Asia by Samuel S. Kim,Tai Hwan Lee Pdf

North Korea's regime has managed to survive in the face of serious internal and external challenges. Kim (political science, Columbia U., US) and Lee (foreign policy and security studies, Sejong Institute, South Korea) present eight essays that address North Korea's system survival strategies in the context of these challenges from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including assymetrical conflict theory, mercantile neorealism, and prospect theory. The papers are organized into three sections that explore the broad theoretical and practical aspects of North Korean-Northeast Asian relations (Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States are the Northeast Asian powers for the purposes of this discussion); the global, regional, and national forces that have shaped patterns of conflict and cooperation with the Northeast Asian powers, and the effects of the security and economic domains on system survival strategies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Bernhard Seliger,Werner Pascha
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441996572

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Towards a Northeast Asian Security Community by Bernhard Seliger,Werner Pascha Pdf

The Northeast Asian security environment is closely linked to Korea’s growth perspectives for the future. The spectacular rise of the South Korean economy in the past half century, also known as “Miracle on the Han River,” has been duly highlighted as one of the most successful cases of economic development worldwide. However, among the factors curbing South Korea’s growth perspectives has been, from the very beginning of its rise, the coexistence of the difficult neighbour to the North, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. While in the cold war this coexistence has been taken as inevitable, after the end of the cold war there were hopes to overcome this obstacle to further growth either through collapse or enhanced cooperation with the North, neither of which became reality. North Korea’s unprecedented aggressiveness and development of long-range ballistic missiles and nuclear devices, made this threat truly an international question with multilateral talks coming into existence as ad-hoc measures to cope with the nuclear crisis. It was then that the idea of a Northeast Asian Security Community was born. The contributions in this book discuss how a peaceful solution of the security problems could not only enhance stability of Korea’s economy and reduce the defense burden considerably (the so-called peace dividend), but would facilitate regional investments safer and regional solutions for common economic problems. When discussing the possibilities of a security framework or, in an institutionalized form, security community, in Northeast Asia, the authors in this volume are realistic as to not fall into the trap of wishful thinking, which so often has characterized approaches to North Korea resulting in disappointment. The past two years again saw the rising of tensions in Northeast Asia and the masterful way in which even an impoverished and isolated country can play its cards. While it seems a new ice age between the two Koreas is possible, nevertheless and maybe even more than ever the search for a stable security framework for Northeast Asia as a precondition for peaceful economic cooperation and development will go on. The chapters in this volume contribute to the ongoing debate to secure peace and development in Northeast Asia, making this book of interest to both academics and policy-makers alike.

Author : Terence Roehrig,Jungmin Seo,Uk Heo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780275998356

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Korean Security in a Changing East Asia by Terence Roehrig,Jungmin Seo,Uk Heo Pdf

Since its partition in the 1950s, the Korean peninsula has directly or indirectly shaped the broader security relations between regional powerhouses, and the recent test of a nuclear weapon by the North Korean regime has heightened tensions across the world. This study draws upon contributions from a diverse array of experts who offer their perspectives on the region's complex network of alliances and hostilities. The authors discuss the future of the region, the potential for military conflict and a new arms race, and the ways to maintain peace and stability. Since its partition in the 1950s, the Korean peninsula has directly or indirectly shaped the broader security relations between regional powerhouses, while the recent test of a nuclear weapon by the North Korean regime has heightened tensions across the world. Japan, feeling increasingly threatened by the North Korean regime and China's extravagant military expenditures, has begun questioning Article IX in its Constitution that renounces war and the maintenance of armed forces. Its neighbors, still haunted by Japanese atrocities during World War II, are fearful of a new nuclear arms race in the region. The United States, for its part, has adopted unprecedented hard-line policies in response to 9/11, going so far as to condemn North Korea as part of an axis of evil. It has strengthened its alliance with Japan and alienated its long-time strategic partner South Korea. Add to this the economic entanglements of each of these countries both with each other and with the rest of the world, and the regional security issues become even more paramount. This study makes sense of these complex alliances and frictions and offers an array of perspectives on the future of the region, the potential for military conflict and a new arms race, and the ways to maintain peace and stability. Topics include big power rivalries, South Korea's sunshine policy, anti-Americanism, and emerging nationalisms.

Author : Rüdiger Frank,John Swenson-Wright
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004236479

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Korea and East Asia by Rüdiger Frank,John Swenson-Wright Pdf

Will the twenty-first century be the Asian century? Will the People’s Republic of China overtake the United States as the leading global superpower? Will an armed conflict break out on the Korean peninsula, and can it be contained? While opinions differ strongly, there seems to be a certain consensus that the East Asian region, roughly defined as Northeast Asia (China, the two Koreas, Japan and the Russian Far East) plus Southeast Asia (ASEAN), will be ever more globally significant in the years to come. This book critically addresses the potential of the liberal concept of collective security to provide a solution, with a focus on the Korean peninsula.

Author : Hoi-Chang Lee
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Korea
ISBN : 0817946438

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The Future of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asian Security by Hoi-Chang Lee Pdf

Author : Se Hyun Ahn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811551161

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Policing Northeast Asia by Se Hyun Ahn Pdf

This book explores the progress in and the obstacles surrounding developing comprehensive security cooperation between Russia and South Korea since diplomatic relations were established in 1991 within the framework of economic security. The book focuses on oil and natural gas projects, linking the Trans-Siberian and Trans-Korean Railroads, industrial development in the Nakhodka Free Economic Zone, fishery cooperation, and the arms trade, and examines whether these five aspects of cooperation serve to contribute to building Russian-South Korean bilateral and regional economic security. The author argues that these five aspects of cooperation all have the potential to enhance comprehensive bilateral security and further regional economic security in Northeast Asia. However, Russian-South Korean economic cooperation has been hampered by a number of obstacles, including domestic factors as well as external factors, and prevented Russia and South Korea from fulfilling their potential for creating a cooperative comprehensive security relationship. The author concludes with an assessment on the utility of the concept of multi-dimensional security cooperation as a framework for studying and improving the prospects for Russian-South Korean bilateral relations.

Author : G. John Ikenberry,Chung-in Moon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742556395

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The United States and Northeast Asia by G. John Ikenberry,Chung-in Moon Pdf

Since World War II, the United States has played a crucial role in shaping Northeast Asian politics and economics. However, as this authoritative book shows, the Cold War's demise, September 11, and America's major strategic realignments have unleashed seismic changes in the region. China's rise, Japan's quest for a normal state, and the North Korean nuclear quagmire are also potential flashpoints. Collective memories of past aggression as well as resurgent nationalism further complicate regional dynamics. But hopeful signs abound, as deepening economic interdependence, expanding social and cultural exchanges, and the proliferation of informal economic, social, and cultural networks have improved the chances for a peaceful evolution to a liberal and stable region. Contributions by: Vinod K. Aggarwal, Paul Bacon, Avery Goldstein, G. John Ikenberry, Takashi Inoguchi, Ki-Jung Kim, Myongsob Kim, Woosang Kim, Yongho Kim, Min Gyo Koo, Michael Mastanduno, Chung-in Moon, Katharine H. S. Moon, Seung-won Suh, and William C. Wohlforth

Author : Gregory J. Moore
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421410944

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North Korean Nuclear Operationality by Gregory J. Moore Pdf

"Leading Asian and security studies experts consider the question: What would happen if North Korea "goes nuclear?" and their answers are critical. Scholars and policymakers alike need to understand the implications not only for northeast Asian regional security, but also for the international nuclear non-proliferation regime. Moore's contributors evaluate political, economic, and security issues including: how South Korea, China, Japan, and Russia would react to such an event, and the possibility of a regional arms race; what diplomatic and strategic options the U.S. has; and how the global community's expectations regarding nuclear non-proliferation would be effected. Given the instability and mystery surrounding North Korean politics, scholarship on the implications of the country's nuclear capability is critical, which makes this volume with its unique focus a timely addition to the East Asian security studies field"--

Author : Tae-Hwan Kwak,Edward A. Olsen
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 1555875661

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The Major Powers of Northeast Asia by Tae-Hwan Kwak,Edward A. Olsen Pdf

The remnants of Cold War politics stand in the way of Northeast Asia's adjustment to the post-Cold War era. This book examines the security policies of Japan, China, Russia, the US, and Australia in the Northeast Asia region, with reference to attempts to re-unify the two Koreas.