Asia's Alliance Triangle: Us-Japan-South Korea Relations at a Tumultuous Time

ISBN-13: 9781137541703 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 265 str.

Gilbert Rozman

Opis

From 2013, the USA-led alliance triangle with Japan and South Korea has defied expectations. Drawing together articles commissioned from leading experts in all three countries by the new online journal The Asan Forum, this book reconsiders what we thought we knew about the three legs of this triangle. Varied chapters cover the USA-South Korea alliance at 60 years, Japan-South Korea relations under stress, Japan's national security policy, United States relations with both allies, and Japanese and Korean national identities. A picture emerges of two strong United States alliances increasingly at odds with each other, and of Japan-South Korea relations newly troubled not only by intensifying national identities but also by divergent strategic calculations. This volume shows how vital this triangle is to understanding USA policy in Asia by bringing to light the dynamics of triangularity in the shadow of China's rise and the North Korean threat.

O autorze

Choi Kang, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Korea J. Berkshire Miller, Pacific Forum CSIS, USA Bong Young-shik, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Korea Daeong Hyun, Korea Maritime Institute Park Cheol Hee, Seoul National University, Korea Koichi Nakano, Sophia University, Japan Yamaguchi Noboru, National Defense Academy of Japan Yuichi Hosoya, Keio University, Japan Lee Chung Min, Yonsei University, Korea Kiichi Fujiwara, Tokyo University, Japan Sheila A. Smith, Council on Foreign Relations, USA Thomas C. Hubbard, McLarty Associates, The Korea Society, USA Dennis Blair, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, USA Nakanishi Hiroshi, Kyoto University, USA Gi-Wook Shin, Stanford University, USA Kim Jiyoon, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, USA Gilbert Rozman, The Asan Forum, Korea