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The article explores the theoretical linkage between international crises & national identity-building processes. Japan's security policy since the beginning of the 1990s will be used as a test case. The most obvious finding is that Japan has tried to incrementally change its security posture & engage more actively in international security affairs after three such crises: the North Korean nuclear crisis of 1993, the North Korean missile test of August 1998 & the events of 11 September 2001. It becomes evident that Japan's security policy had already changed significantly before the attacks of 9/11. After September 2001, it irreversibly gained a new quality. On the basis of the empirical findings presented in the article, the author is able to detect an irrefutable nexus between crises & identity change. References. Adapted from the source document.

This article discusses whether the successful model of the Conference for Security & Cooperation in Europe during the East-West-Conflict may be an option for detention & reconciliation on the Korean peninsula. Because of the nuclear debate provoked by North Korea, multilateral negotiations within the Six-Party-Talks should lead to a peaceful solution. However, the blackmailing politics of the communist regime in Pyongyang, the tensions between China & Japan, the carrot-&-stick policy of the US administration & the independent foreign policy of South Korea toward the US have challenged the necessity of establishing a sustainable security regime. The article examines whether in the future the Six-Party-Talks could be transformed into such a security regime. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.