Sovereignty and status in East Asian international relations /

This book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of a key concept in East Asian security debates, sovereign autonomy, and how it reproduces hierarchy in the regional order. Park argues that contemporary strategic debates in East Asia are based on shared contextual knowledge - that of internat...

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Main Author: Park, Seo-Hyun (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Sovereignty as status: hierarchy and East Asian international relations; 1. How hierarchy endures; 2. Hierarchy and regional order in premodern East Asia; 3. The emergence of sovereign autonomy as a modern security concept; 4. Enduring hierarchy in postwar East Asia; 5. Competing frames of autonomy and domestic legitimacy politics in Japan and South Korea during the Cold War; 6. Contesting autonomy and alliance in post-Cold War East Asia; 7. Which historical legacies matter in East Asian international relations?; Bibliography.