Chinese Strategic Thinking on Multilateral Regional Security in Northeast Asia
In: Orbis: FPRI's journal of world affairs, Volume 55, Issue 2, p. 298-313
ISSN: 0030-4387
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In: Orbis: FPRI's journal of world affairs, Volume 55, Issue 2, p. 298-313
ISSN: 0030-4387
In: Russian analytical digest: (RAD), Issue 91, p. 5-8
ISSN: 1863-0421
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In: Journal of contemporary China, Volume 19, Issue 66, p. 605-620
ISSN: 1469-9400
In: Journal of contemporary China, Volume 19, Issue 66, p. 605-620
ISSN: 1067-0564
A review of four periods and a comparison of three regional institutions provide evidence for how serious China has become about multilateralism with its neighbors in Asia. Approval for multilateralism does not mean that China is ready to endorse strong regional organizations that bind their members, especially when it has reservations both about institutions that could undermine its narrow notion of sovereignty and norms that could support US or even Japanese efforts to impose long-feared universal values. If China calculates that limited multilateralism now provides a variety of benefits, to date its support reflects specific circumstances, not general trust in this format. Focusing on the Six-Party Talks as the presumed foundation for regionalism in Northeast Asia offers a concentrated view of strategic thinking toward the area most vital to China's security. In the standoff between North Korea and the United States we are able to assess the degree to which China accepts working with four or five states and the prospects for its active support, if circumstances permit, for the establishment of a peace and security mechanism through the fifth working group that originated in the Joint Agreement of February 2007. (J Contemp China/GIGA)
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In: The Korean journal of defense analysis, Volume 21, Issue 1, p. 49-65
ISSN: 1941-4641
In: Japanese journal of political science, Volume 9, Issue 2
ISSN: 1474-0060
In: Problems of post-communism, Volume 55, Issue 1, p. 36-48
ISSN: 1557-783X
In: Pacific affairs, Volume 81, Issue 2, p. 289-290
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: Asian survey, Volume 47, Issue 4, p. 601-621
ISSN: 1533-838X
The nuclear crisis tested the U.S. in four distinct periods from 2002 to 2007, as slowly its strategy shifted toward multilateralism. After failing to rally any state but Japan to its side, the U.S. approved the Joint Agreement by working more closely with China. With Phase 1 finishing, Phase 2 puts a premium on multilateralism for which the U.S. is unprepared.
In: The Pacific review, Volume 20, Issue 2, p. 197-220
ISSN: 1470-1332
In: Russian analytical digest: (RAD), Issue 25, p. 2-5
ISSN: 1863-0421
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In: The Pacific review, Volume 20, Issue 2, p. 197-220
ISSN: 0951-2748
South Korea is a middle power in a region where its scope of action can rise and fall quickly and diplomatic flexibility is needed. Neither realist responses to threats nor idealist trust in integration meet its needs for adjusting triangular ties with China and Japan, as their relations become the principal great power divide in Northeast Asia. Its optimal choice is as a facilitator biding its time when tensions over both security and national identity clashes are intense, while preparing for opportunities. Four conditions would give it a favorable environment: forward-looking foreign leadership; security challenges brought under some control; subsiding preoccupation with national identities; and its own strategic planning with care not to overreach. Multiple possibilities emerge if it can rebuild ties with Japan as part of a triangle with China as well as one with the United States and also synchronize ties with China to other ties. Even amidst recurrent tensions, the core East Asian triangle offers Seoul a chance to take advantage of changing dynamics in the world's most ascendant region. (Pac Rev/GIGA)
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In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Volume 47, Issue 4, p. 601-621
ISSN: 0004-4687
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In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 111, Issue 4, p. 1262-1263
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Pacific affairs, Volume 78, Issue 1, p. 115-116
ISSN: 0030-851X
Rozman reviews STRATEGIC PARTNERS: Russian-Chinese Relations in the Post-Soviet Era by Jeanne L. Wilson.