{"product_id":"rethinking-security-in-east-asia-9780804749787","title":"Rethinking Security in East Asia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs East Asia heading toward war? Throughout the 1990s, conventional wisdom among U.S. scholars of international relations held that institutionalized cooperation in Europe fosters peace, while its absence from East Asia portends conflict. Developments in Europe and Asia in the 1990s contradict the conventional wisdom without discrediting it. Explanations that derive from only one paradigm or research program have shortcomings beyond their inability to recognize important empirical anomalies. International relations research is better served by combining explanatory approaches from different research traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book makes a case for a new theoretical approach (called analytical eclecticism by the authors) to the study of Asian security. It informs the analysis in subsequent chapters of central topics in East Asian security, with specific reference to China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. The authors conclude that the prospects for peace in East Asia look less dire than\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stimulating volume .... Each chapter of the book is elegantly and persuasively written for a specific puzzle each author or co-authors were looking at.\"—Peng Er. Lam, \u003ci\u003eInternational Relations of the Asia-Pacific (IRAP)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  @toc4:Figures and Tables\tiii  Contributors\tiii  Preface\tiii  @toc2:Chapter 1\tRethinking Asian Security: A Case for   Analytical Eclecticism\t1  @tocca:Peter J. Katzenstein and Rudra Sil  @toc2:Chapter 2\tBeijing's Security Behavior in the Asia-  Pacific: Is China a Dissatisfied Power?\t000  @tocca:Alastair Iain Johnston  @toc2:Chapter 3\tJapan and Asian-Pacific Security\t000  @tocca:Peter J. Katzenstein and Nobuo Okawara  @toc2:Chapter 4\tBound to Last? The U.S.-Korea Alliance   and Analytical Eclecticism\t000  @tocca:J. J. Suh  @toc2:Chapter 5\tCoping with Strategic Uncertainty: The   Role of Institutions and Soft Balancing in Southeast Asia's   PostCold War Strategy\t000  @tocca:Yuen Foong Khong  @toc2:Chapter 6\tThe Value of Rethinking East Asian   Security: Denaturalizing and Explaining a Complex Security   Dynamic\t000  @tocca:Allen Carlson and J. J. Suh  @toc4:Bibliography\t000  Index\t000  @fmct:Figures and Tables  @fmh1:Figures   @fmli:Figure 1.1.\tResearch Traditions and Points of   Convergence  Figure 1.2.\tThe Possibilities of Eclecticism  Figure 2.1.\tChina's International Organization   Memberships in Comparative Perspective, 19962000  Figure 2.2.\tChina's Actual and Expected Memberships in   International Organizations, 19972000  Figure 2.3.\tComparative Reductions in Mean Tariff Rates,   19921997  Figure 2.4.\tVoting in the UN Commission on Human Rights   on No-Action Motions on Resolutions Critical of the PRC,   19902001  Figure 2.5.\tMean Similarity Index with Select Countries   per Foreign Policy Period  Figure 2.6.\tChinese Estimates of Trends in Comprehensive   National Power  Figure 2.7.\tFrequency of International Relations Articles   Using the Terms \"Multipolarity\" (duojihua) and   \"Globalization\" (quanqiuhua) in Chinese Academic Journals,   19942001  Figure 2.8.\tArticles Mentioning \"China Threat Theory\"   (Zhongguo weixie lun) in the Text as Percentage of All   International Relations Articles, 19942002  Figure 4.1.\tCausal Arrows of the Institutionalist Theory   of Alliance Persistence  @fmh1:Table  Table 4.1.\tThree-Stage Model of   Institutionalization        Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: East Asia Foreign relations, Security, International, National security East Asia\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405558554967,"sku":"9780804749787","price":105.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804749787.jpg?v=1730492827","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rethinking-security-in-east-asia-9780804749787","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}