The Long Peace of East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Peace of East Asia write by Timo Kivimäki. This book was released on 2016-03-03. The Long Peace of East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The annual number of battle deaths from interstate and intra-state conflicts in East Asia has declined by 95% since 1979. During the past three decades, East Asia has been more peaceful than Europe, the Americas or any continent, in terms of battle deaths per capita. When generating theories on peace and war, studies almost never look at the experiences of East Asia. Yet the region by focusing on a commitment to development, is a social reality that is less paranoid, less militaristic and more cooperative. Since 1979 there has been a commonly accepted rule to keep domestic issues domestic so that external military interference, that often caused the majority of battle deaths, was not needed. Thus the emergence of the long peace of East Asia is historically specific, and cannot be generalized by studying objective, material conditions independent of common perceptions and common interpretations. This does not mean that the East Asian experience is not relevant for other regions in the world, but that generalizations should not be attempted to be drawn from the material conditions, but rather from the lived experience and socially constructed realities of East Asia. Since East Asia is a spectacular case of pacification, and since it has not contributed much to our theories of peace and conflict, The Long Peace of East Asia is an important book for studies on peace and war.
Explaining the East Asian Peace
Explaining the East Asian Peace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Explaining the East Asian Peace write by Stein Tønnesson. This book was released on 2017. Explaining the East Asian Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is a personal story of a multinational research programme that, instead of explaining conflict, has sought to explain peace, and to gauge its quality and sustainability. The Uppsala Conflict Data Programme has shown a dramatic drop in East Asian battle deaths between the 1970s and '80s, just as wars got worse in the rest of the world. Since 1989, East Asia has been exceptionally peaceful. The book recounts heated discussions over how to explain a regional transition to peace. Was it due to a changing power balance? The ASEAN Way? China's 'peaceful development' doctrine? Growing economic interdependence? Or, as the author contends, a series of national priority shifts by powerful Asian leaders who prioritized economic growth and thus needed external and internal stability? The book deals with civil as well as international conflict, and discusses why Thailand, Myanmar and the Philippines have not yet achieved internal peace. The author recounts his debates with colleagues who find it difficult to accept that a region with several unresolved militarized disputes, still ongoing civil wars, rising arms expenditures, massive human rights violations, and high levels of domestic violence can be called 'peaceful'. East Asia, they say, has just a 'negative peace' or relative absence of war. Tønnesson, who holds that a 'negative peace' has tremendous positive value, includes a discussion of how to predict its future - can China keep peace with its neighbours? A rare combination of detached analysis and personal narrative, the book examines developments in the world's most important region while also telling the story of how researchers with different assumptions develop rival theories and predictions" (ed.).
The East Asian Peace
The East Asian Peace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The East Asian Peace write by M. Weissmann. This book was released on 2012-06-12. The East Asian Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using a case study based approach, Weissmann analyses the post-Cold War East Asian security setting to demonstrate why there is a paradoxical inter-state peace. He points out processes that have been important for the creation of a continuing relative peace in East Asia, as well as conflict prevention and peacebuilding mechanisms.
Remembering and Forgetting
Remembering and Forgetting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering and Forgetting write by Gerrit W. Gong. This book was released on 1996. Remembering and Forgetting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This bibliography includes books, research reports, student papers from senior service schools (such as the Army War College), technical reports, conference papers, theses and dissertations, archival materials, government documents, and articles from scholarly journals (there are no articles from popular, news, or service magazines). Most of the 857 entries have been published in the last 20 years. The first chapter discusses strategies for conducting research on women in the military. Subsequent chapters are organized by subject, including chapters covering each branch of the military and chapters for special issues such as family and pregnancy. Entries are arranged within chapters by subject, then alphabetically by author within subject. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Identity, Trust, and Reconciliation in East Asia
Identity, Trust, and Reconciliation in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Identity, Trust, and Reconciliation in East Asia write by Kevin P Clements. This book was released on 2017-10-10. Identity, Trust, and Reconciliation in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection explores how East Asia’s painful history continues to haunt the relationships between its countries and peoples. Through a largely social-psychological and constructivist lens, the authors examine the ways in which historical memory and unmet identity needs generates mutual suspicion, xenophobic nationalism and tensions in the bilateral and trilateral relationships within the region. This text not only addresses some of the domestic drivers of Japanese, Chinese and South Korean foreign policy - and the implications of increasingly autocratic rule in all three countries – but also analyses the way in which new security mechanisms and processes advancing trust, confidence and reconciliation can replace those generating mistrust, antagonism and insecurity.
