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(The author argues) that there is a distinct and longstanding regional structure in East Asia that is of at least equal importance to the global level in shaping the region's security dynamics. Without considering this regional level neither "unipolar" nor "multipolar" designations can explain East Asian international security. To make this case, (the author deploys) regional security complex theory both to characterize and explain developments in East Asia since the end of the Cold War. The shift from bipolarity to unipolarity is well understood in thinking about how the ending of the Cold War impacted on East Asia. Less written about in Western security literature are the parallel developments at the regional level. Prominent among these are the relative empowerment of China in relation to its neighbours, and the effect of this, as well as of the growth of regional institutions, and the attachment of security significance to East Asian economic developments, in merging the security dynamics of Northeast and Southeast Asia. How China relates to its East Asian region, and how the US and China relate to each other, are deeply intertwined issues which centrally affect not only the future of East Asian, but also global, security. With the notable exception of some crisis between China and Taiwan, this whole pattern looks mainly dependent on internal developments within China and the US. Also significant is whether the basic dynamic of interstate relations in East Asia is more defined by the Westphalian principle of balancing, or by the bandwagoning imperative more characteristic of suzerain-vassal relationships. The main probability is for more of the same, with East Asian security staying within a fairly narrow band between mild conflict formation and a rather odd and weak sort of security regime in which an outside power, the US, plays the key role. (Pac Rev/DÜI)

Der Verfasser benutzt einen breiten Sicherheitsbegriff, der militärische, politische und wirtschaftliche Sektoren einschließt. Er analysiert Kosten und Nutzen der Sicherheit für Regierungen der Dritten Welt und stellt fest, daß nach dem Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts noch kein neues Gleichgewicht zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie besteht. Speziell das Südliche Afrika gewinnt durch den Rückzug der Großmächte aus der Region, verliert jedoch gleichzeitig Gewicht als strategische Region und Rohstoff-Lieferant. Es könnte als Teil des subsaharischen Afrika weltpolitisch marginalisiert werden. (APAF-Ans)

Wissenschaftlich-theoretische Analyse + Aus britischer Sicht

Acharya, Amitav ; Buzan, Barry: Preface : why is there no non-Western IR theory : reflections on and from Asia Acharya, Amitav ; Buzan, Barry: Why is there no non-Western international relations theory? An introduction Qin Yaqing: Why is there no Chinese international relations theory? Behera, Navnita Chadha: Re-imagining IR in India Inoguchi, Takashi: Are there any theories of international relations in Japan? Chong, Alan: Southeast Asia : theory between modernization and tradition Acharya, Amitav ; Buzan, Barry: Conclusion : on the possibility of a non-Western IR theory in Asia