Post Cold War Evolution of Chinese Thinking on Regional Institutions in Northeast Asia

2018 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Regional Institutions

Peaceful Change in Northeast Asia: Maintaining the “Minimal Peace”

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhubhindar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Economic Interdependence ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Liberal Internationalism ◽  
The Us ◽  
Regional Order ◽  
The Cold War

Northeast Asia is usually associated with conflict and war. Out of the five regional order transitions from the Sinocentric order to the present post–Cold War period, only one was peaceful, the Cold War to post–Cold War transition. In fact, the peaceful transition led to a state of minimal peace in post–Cold War Northeast Asia. As the chapter discusses, this was due to three realist-liberal factors: America’s hegemonic role, strong economic interdependence, and a stable institutional structure. These factors not only ensured development and prosperity but also mitigated the negative effects of political and strategic tensions between states. However, this minimal peace is in danger of unraveling. Since 2010, the region is arguably in the early stages of another transition fueled by the worsening Sino-US competition. While the organizing ideas of liberal internationalism—economic interdependence and institutional building—will remain resilient, whether or not minimal peace is sustainable will be determined by the outcome of the US-China competition.

Russia's Post-Cold War Security Policy in Northeast Asia

1994 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy Falkenheim Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Post Cold War

Unpacking the Contemporary Strategic Problem in Northeast Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-160
Author(s):  
Barry Buzan ◽  
Evelyn Goh
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Contemporary Problem ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Political Understanding ◽  
Second World

Chapter 4 begins in present-day NEA, and unpacks its core strategic problem of uncertainty associated with an apparent power transition, relating it squarely to the enforced alienation between the two indigenous great powers, China and Japan. It argues that neither a purely power-political understanding nor one that overly emphasizes nationalism and domestic impediments has been especially helpful to advancing our understanding of how Sino-Japanese alienation serves to constrain the development of East Asia’s post-Cold War order. Instead, one should understand the contemporary problem as resulting from the disintegration of the region’s post-Second World War settlement that centred on the United States acting as a ring-holder between China and Japan. Introducing the great power bargain framework, it shows how we might usefully distinguish between the constitutive and regulative aspects of such bargains. It then employs this framework to analyse Sino-Japanese alienation after the long nineteenth century, examining how efforts to create a partial new bargain between 1945 and 1989 were eventually undermined by the two countries’ changing characters and politics after the Cold War.

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