10. The United States and Northeast Asian Regionalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 225-248
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asian Regionalism ◽  
Northeast Asian

Bilaterals, Trilaterals and G2: Pragmatic Hedging Between Great Powers and the Role of the Middle Powers and Small States in Northeast Asia

2016 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Tai Wei LIM
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Community ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Small States ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Middle Powers ◽  
Northeast Asian

Trilateral diplomacy offers an opportunity for Northeast Asian leaders to meet and talk in a business-like manner, rather than having the region risk skirmishes between maritime coastguards and fishermen, helicopter landings by politicians on disputed islands and icy-cold poses during leadership summits. In such conversations, the United States remains the most acceptable common denominator for other large states and middle powers in the international community.

scholarly journals The Politics of Asian Regionalism in Korea

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Dae-Gyeong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Coordination ◽  
Asian Regionalism ◽  
Political Groups

Drawing from the concept of national identity in the Constructivist School of International Relations, this paper sheds light on the interaction between identity politics and pan-Asian regionalist vision in South Korea today by examining how competing political groups – the progressives, leftists and conservatives – have formulated differing regional policies and long-term goals. After showing that each group’s distinctive identities toward North Korea and the United States have influenced the formation of controversies over regionalist visions, this paper suggests that successful future community building in Asia hinges upon the creative resolution of a multilateral blueprint with existing bilateralisms in the region, and most importantly upon closer policy coordination between South Korea and the United States.

Japanese Ideas of Asian Regionalism

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAKASHI INOGUCHI
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Asian Regionalism ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Special Mention ◽  
East Asian Summit

AbstractJapan is geographically located on the fringe of Asia. Japan's location is often divided between those arguing that Japan is inside Asia and those arguing it is outside Asia. Japanese ideas of Asian regionalism are thus immensely varied. This article details a number of Japanese ideas on Asian regionalism with author/agency, scope and method specified. Special mention is made of weak integration of government agencies, thus causing proliferation of many Japanese ideas within Asia. With the increasing self-assertiveness of China, the apparent peaking out of American hegemony, and the steady rise of non-Chinese Asians, Japan tries to maintain enduring alliance with the United States, to invigorate interdependence with China, and to reinvent new relationships with the countries of the East Asian Summit. Japanese ideas of Asian regionalism take those templates as guidelines to develop new ideas of Asian regionalism.

The Rational Origin of Irrational Instability: Rising American Populism and its Political Ramification in Northeast Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Sunil KIM
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Northeast Asian ◽  
Nuclear Crisis

This study discusses the rise of populism in the United States and its political ramification in the Northeast Asian region, surrounding the recent North Korean nuclear crisis. Rather than simply blaming the irrational behaviours of political leaders, this study argues that their different political preferences originating from their background as well as the demographic nature of their core constituency are the fundamental sources of instability in the region. Unlike the conventional understanding, this study claims that the key problem that has been driving countries in the region towards the nuclear debacle—as well as the sudden volte-face—is US political leader’s very rationality, unbounded by ideological or partisan traditions, rather than his irrational, or oft-regarded as deranged, personality.

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