The International Relations of Northeast Asia

This authoritative work explores the complex and evolving interplay among national, regional, and global forces influencing Northeast Asia's security, economy, and identity. Written by a team of leading scholars, the book presents a variety of theoretical perspectives and case studies to offer a comprehensive analysis of the pressures that shape the policy choices of China, Russia, Japan, the United States, North and South Korea, and Taiwan. The authors' historically and culturally informed narratives help track and explain the changes and continuities of relationships within the region and with the United States and Russia. Concise and current, this book will be essential reading for all those concerned with the role of a changing Northeast Asia in world politics.

Is Northeast Asia primed for peace or ripe for great-power rivalry? In this turbulent region, all the world-order challenges of arms control and disarmament, global North-South tensions, human rights and humanitarian intervention, environmental protection and eco-development, and democratization and humane governance are concentrated. More than any other part of the world, the divided Korean peninsula is the strategic crossroad where the four major regional/global powers—the United States, Russia, China, and Japan—uneasily interact. This authoritative work explores the complex and evolving interplay of national, regional, and global forces influencing Northeast Asia's security, economy, and identity. Written by a team of leading scholars, the book presents a variety of theoretical perspectives and case studies to offer a comprehensive analysis of the pressures that shape the policy choices of China, Russia, Japan, the United States, North and South Korea, and Taiwan. The authors' historically and culturally informed narratives help track and explain the changes and continuities of relationships within the region and with the United States and Russia. Concise and current, this book will be essential reading for all those concerned with the role of a changing Northeast Asia in world politics.

Part 1 Part I: Theory and Practice
Chapter 2 Northeast Asia in the Local-Regional-Global Nexus: Multiple Challenges and Contending Explanations
Part 3 Part II: Major Power Interaction
Chapter 4 China's International Relations: The Political and Security Dimensions
Chapter 5 China's International Relations: The Economic Dimension
Chapter 6 Japan's International Relations: The Political and Security Dimensions
Chapter 7 Japan's International Relations: The Economic Dimension
Chapter 8 Russian Foreign Policy in Northeast Asia
Chapter 9 U.S. Foreign Policy in Northeast Asia
Part 10 Part III: Flashpoints in the Divided Nations
Chapter 11 South Korea's International Relations: Challenges to Developmental Realism?
Chapter 12 North Korea's International Relations: The Successful Failure?
Chapter 13 Taiwan's External Relations: Identity versus Security
Part 14 Part IV: Region Building
Chapter 15 The Emerging Northeast Asian Regional Order