The East Asian Peace: Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding

230 Pages·2012·1.161 MB·English

by  Mikael Weissmann (auth.)

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The East Asian Peace
Conflict Prevention and Informal
Peacebuilding
Mikael Weissmann
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Contents
ListofTablesandFigures ix
Acknowledgements x
ListofAbbreviations xiii
1 Introduction:TheParadoxoftheEastAsianPeace 1
Theresearchfrontier 5
Theempiricalparadox 7
Arelativepeace 9
StudyingtheEastAsianpeace 12
Methodandmaterial 15
Theresearchcase:EastAsia 17
Organisationofthebook 19
Part I TheoreticalandConceptualFramework
2 ReviewoftheFieldandTheoreticalFramework 23
InternationalrelationstheoryandEastAsia 23
Theoreticalframework 37
Conclusion 49
Part II CaseStudies
3 MainlandChina–TaiwanRelationsandtheTaiwanIssue 53
HistoricalcontextofPRC–ROCrelations 54
Eliteinteractions 59
Economicintegrationandinterdependence 74
Functionalcooperation 78
TheUSfactor 80
Conclusions 84
4 TheSouthChinaSeaandSino-ASEANRelations 87
Historicalcontext 89
Eliteinteractions 95
Regionalisation 104
TheUSfactor 111
Conclusion 112
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5 TheKoreanNuclearConflict 115
HistoricalcontextoftheKoreannuclearconflict 117
Personalnetworksandback-channelnegotiations 123
Economicintegrationandinterdependence 128
TheUSfactor 131
Thesix-partytalks 133
EngagingtheNorthKoreans:Eliteinteractionsas
peacebuilding 136
Conclusion 141
Part III Conclusions
6 Conclusion:UnderstandingtheEastAsianPeace 147
Processesbehindtherelativepeace 148
Howtheprocessesarelinkedandhowthey
influenceeachother 162
Understandingthedualprocessofconflictprevention
andpeacebuilding 163
AschematicmodeloftheEastAsianpeace 166
ExplainingtheEastAsianpeace:Aconstructivistreading 167
SearchingforpeacebeyondEastAsia 170
Notes 174
Bibliography 186
Index 209
Tables and Figures
Tables
3.1 Matrixoftheimportanceoftheidentifiedprocesses,
MainlandChina–Taiwan 84
4.1 ClaimsmadeintheSouthChinaSea 90
4.2 Matrixoftheimportanceoftheidentifiedprocesses,
SouthChinaSea 113
5.1 Matrixoftheimportanceoftheidentifiedprocesses,
Koreannuclearconflict 141
6.1 Categorisationofinformalprocesses 149
6.2 Matrixoftheimportanceofthecategoriesofprocesses
forpeace 150
6.3 Conflict-preventionandpeace-buildingmechanisms 165
Figures
6.1 Normativeandideationalstructures 169
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