The Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea: A Fragile Miracle
In: Pacific affairs, Band 75, Heft 2, S. 310-311
ISSN: 0030-851X
'The Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea: A Fragile Miracle' by Tat Yan Kong is reviewed.
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In: Pacific affairs, Band 75, Heft 2, S. 310-311
ISSN: 0030-851X
'The Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea: A Fragile Miracle' by Tat Yan Kong is reviewed.
In: Pacific affairs, Band 69, Heft 4, S. 588-589
ISSN: 0030-851X
'North Korea: Ideology, Politics, Economy' by Han S. Park is reviewed.
East Asia is richer, more integrated and more stable than ever before, whilst East Asian defense spending is now roughly half of what it was in 1990 and shows no sign of increasing. There is no evidence of any Asian arms race. All countries in the region are seeking diplomatic, not military solutions with each other. Yet this East Asia reality still runs counter to a largely Western narrative that views China's rise as a threat and the region as increasingly unstable. In this important book, David C. Kang argues that American grand strategy should emphasize diplomatic and economic relations with the region, rather than military-first policies. Using longitudinal and comparative data, statistical analysis, and intensive research in selected East Asian countries, he suggests that East Asia is in sync with the American desire to share burdens and that the region may in fact be more stable than popularly believed.
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In: Contemporary Asia in the world
The puzzle : war and peace in East Asian history -- Ideas : hierarchy, status, and hegemony -- States : the Confucian society -- Diplomacy : the tribute system -- War : the longer peace -- Trade : international economic relations -- Frontiers : nomads and islands -- Lessons : history forward and backward
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In: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Over the past three decades, China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, yet East Asia has been more peaceful than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. Why has the region accommodated China's rise? David C. Kang believes certain preferences and beliefs are responsible for maintaining stability in East Asia. His research shows that East Asian states have grown closer to China, with little evidence that the region is rupturing. These states see China's rise as advantageous and are willing to defer judgment as to China's wishes and future actions. They believe that a strong Chi
In: The Washington quarterly, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 79-98
ISSN: 1530-9177
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In: International organization, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 65-93
ISSN: 1531-5088
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In: Journal of Chinese Military History, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 234-236
ISSN: 2212-7453
In: International organization, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 65-93
ISSN: 1531-5088
AbstractIR theorizing about international order has been profoundly, perhaps exclusively, shaped by the Western experiences of the Westphalian order and often assumes that the Western experience can be generalized to all orders. Recent scholarship on historical East Asian orders challenges these notions. The fundamental organizing principle in historical East Asia was hierarchy, not sovereign equality. The region was characterized by hegemony, not balance of power. This emerging research program has direct implications for enduring questions about the relative importance of cultural and material factors in both international orders and their influence on behavior—for describing and explaining patterns of war and peace across time and space, for understanding East Asia as a region made up of more than just China, and for more usefully comparing East Asia, Europe, and other regions of the world.
In: The journal of American-East Asian relations, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 198-220
ISSN: 1876-5610
What has been the impact of Donald J. Trump's presidency on the place of the United States in East Asia? Trump already has shown a proclivity for upending the mainstream American consensus about grand strategy to East Asia, with the real possibility of a trade war with China or a shooting war with North Korea on the horizon. However, this article will place President Trump's first year in office into a larger context of long-term decline of U.S. leadership and influence in East Asia, arguing that this trend has been underway for quite some time, and that Trump has not altered fundamentally this trajectory. Some of Trump's actions may accelerate a decline in U.S. leadership, but by no means was Trump the first nor will he be the last U.S. president to deal with a swiftly changing East Asia. The region has been changing rapidly for decades, and there are no indications that this will stop anytime soon. However, continuing and gradual U.S. withdrawal from leadership does not mean less American-East Asia interaction. East Asia will remain the most important trading and investment region for the U.S. for the foreseeable future.
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 116, Heft 791, S. 217-222
ISSN: 1944-785X
The reality is that powerful business and political clans are deeply embedded in Korean society and unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 116, Heft 791, S. 217-222
ISSN: 0011-3530
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In: European journal of international relations, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 965-986
ISSN: 1460-3713
In premodern East Asia, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and China rarely experienced anything like the type of religious violence that existed for centuries in historical Europe, despite having vibrant religious traditions such as Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and numerous folk religions. How do we explain a region in which religion was generally not a part of the explanation for war and rebellion? A unique data set of over 950 entries of Chinese and Korean violence over a 473-year span allows granular measurement of religious violence. I argue that the inclusivist religions of historical East Asia did not easily lend themselves to appropriation by political leaders as a means of differentiating groups or justifying violence. Addressing the paucity of religious war in historical East Asia is theoretically important because it challenges a large body of scholarly literature that finds a universal causal relationship between religion and war that is empirically derived mainly from the experience of only Christianity and Islam. In contrast, it may be that certain types of religious traditions are less amenable to mass mobilization for violence. Moving beyond Christianity and Islam to include East Asian religious traditions promises both to address a potentially serious issue of selection bias and also to be a rich field for theorizing about the relationship between religion and war.
In: European journal of international relations, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 965-986
ISSN: 1354-0661