Regional Co-operation and Its Enemies in Northeast Asia: The Impact of Domestic Forces

ISBN-13: 9780415399227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 240 str.

Edward Friedman; Sung Chull Kim

Opis

Northeast Asia is a region of both extraordinary economic growth and dangerous tensions which could explode in war. This book examines how domestic politics in all the countries of the region - China, Japan, Russia, Taiwan, North Korea and South Korea and, of course, the USA - intensifies the forces of both mutually beneficial prosperity and also war-prone tensions. It goes on to provide policy suggestions for making the better prospects more likely and the worse outcomes less likely. The book, highlighting how domestic imperatives shape foreign policies, will be an important contribution to the literature on Northeast Asian regionalism and the prospects for its future development.

Recenzje

'The book is a welcome newcomer in the regional cooperation literature of the Asian Pacific...The chapters in this book are rich in detail, informative in description, insightful in analysis, and poignant in argument...This volume is probably not the final word on Northeast Asian regional cooperation but it goes beyond what is offered by most similar publications, and it does so in fewer pages.' - Nobuhiro Hiwatari, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 3, Fall 2007

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Domestic Politics and Regional Cooperation in Southeast and Northeast Asia  3. An Emerging Northeast Asian Community: Domestic Dimension to Consider  4. Washington’s Policies toward North Korea and the Taiwan Strait: The Role of US Domestic Politics  5. Two Koreas in Northeast Asia: Linkages between Domestic, Inter-Korean, and Regional Politics  6. The Transformation of Chinese Foreign Policy  7. The Fragility of China’s Regional Cooepration  8. State Consolidation and Foreign Policy in Russia  9. Mediating Geopolitics, Markets, Regionalism: Domestic Politics in Japan’s Post Cold War Relations with China  10. Transnational Cooperation among NGOs in Northeast Asia: From Re-Thinking Development towards Re-Thinking Security  11. Conclusion