Suchergebnisse

Swaran Singh and Reena Marwah (Eds.), Multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: Conceptual and Operational Challenges, New York: Routledge, 2023, 192 pp., £29.96 (eBook). ISBN: 9781032244693.

Vijay Sakhuja and Pragya Pandey (Eds.), K. M. Panikkar and the Growth of a Maritime Consciousness in India, Vij Books India, Pvt. Ltd. and Indian Council of World Affairs, 2022, xii+404 pp., ₹1,750 (Hardcover). ISBN 9789393499301

Ishita Mehrotra, Political Economy of Class, Caste and Gender: A Study of Rural Dalit Labourers in India. Routledge India, 2022, ix + 213 pp., ₹1,295. ISBN: 978-1032425627.

North Korea and China's relations have, from time to time, been addressed by the international media as 'symbolic brothers', and often come into the academic discussion in the context of the 'Korean War' (1950-1953). It is captured in the larger debate, with North Korea as a by-product or satellite state of China, but the socio-political view of a created society has not been addressed much. The major development that took place during the time was the symbolic production of terminology such as 'blood-brothers' or as close as 'lips and teeth relations' which has reciprocal leverage in each-other's politics. In this case, social constructivism asserts that knowledge undergoes construction through human activity and individuals create meaning through their interactions. The paper takes a constructivist approach as a socio-political view on the Korean War, emphasizing the role of social factors such as identity in the construction of interest and action. It argues that it was the social construction of inter-subjective belief and shared understanding that shaped North Korea-China relations.