East Asian relative peace and the ASEAN Way

Kivimäki, Timo

doi:10.1093/irap/lcq016

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“…Furthermore, Tan, Govindasamy, and Park feel that ASEAN can indirectly support North Korea reform through political, economic, and social means in the peace study (Tan et al, 2017). ASEAN's role in the framework is to pacify East Asia depending on the pattern of conflict and the death rate caused by war and end conflict (Kivimäki, 2011). As a result, this study contends that ASEAN-Korea relations can positively impact the achievement of peace on the Korean Peninsula.…”

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confidence: 85%

South Korea’s Interest in ASEAN+1: New Southern Policy and Peacebuilding

Pradityo

2022

Jurnal Sospol

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ASEAN as a regional organization in Southeast Asia has cooperative relations with state actors and other international organizational actors within the ASEAN+1 framework, one of which is with South Korea. ASEAN relations with South Korea experienced ups and downs due to following the dynamics that occurred on the Korean Peninsula. After the election of Moon Jae In as President of South Korea, the South Korean government emphasized its seriousness to deepen its relations with countries in Southeast Asia and India. This article explains why South Korea has again strengthened its relationship with ASEAN through the New Southern Policy. This study uses the concept of national interest based on English School thinking with a qualitative approach and literature review methods that collect data in the form of books, journals, official government websites, and scientific reports/papers. The results of this study indicate that South Korea has deepened its relationship with ASEAN to realize its national interests in the form of increasing economic cooperation which was affected by the trade war between the United States and China. In addition, South Korea's other national interest is in the form of efforts to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula through ASEAN member countries that also have bilateral relations with North Korea.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 85%

South Korea’s Interest in ASEAN+1: New Southern Policy and Peacebuilding

Pradityo

2022

Jurnal Sospol

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“…This problem, namely arbitrary treatments or conceptualizations of East Asia, is exacerbated when it meets the security issue of the region. Let us take an example from the so-called ‘peaceful East Asia’ thesis, one of the mainstream perspectives on East Asian security (see, e.g., Kivimaki, 2008; Tønnesson, 2009; Choi, 2006; Alagappa, 2003: 11; Kivimaki, 2014). While highlighting that there have been almost no major wars between states in the region since the end of the Cold War, the thesis draws a determinate conclusion of a ‘peaceful East Asia’.…”

Section: Elusive Peacementioning

confidence: 99%

Elusive East Asia:MethodologicalSuggestions for the Study of East Asian Security

Eun¹

2016

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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This article attempts to fill a gap in International Relations (IR) literature on East Asian security. ‘East Asia’ appears to be mostly an indeterminate conceptual construct, allowing scholars to look selectively at those aspects and areas that could justify their security thesis, albeit security dynamics in the region are all too difficult to comprehend and predict. This problem has been frequently pointed out in IR literature, but its methodological implications and suggestions have neither been appropriately illuminated nor been systematically offered, and the main solution commonly found in the literature was the tautological one of ‘better defining’ the region. As an alternative, this article suggests that one needs to tighten geographical focus and differentiate the subjects of analysis. When it comes to the study of East Asian security, one needs to aim to develop specific and differentiated generalizations as opposed to generalizations of a broad character. To showcase the fact that research outcomes can be more determinate when the target of analysis is more focused and specified, this article takes Northeast Asian security as an example and challenges the so-called ‘peaceful East Asia’ thesis, one of the mainstream perspectives on East Asian security. This article ultimately argues that while apprehending East Asian security dynamics through delimiting the scope of analysis and circumscribing the subjects of investigation is often deemed to be a modest enterprise―in particular, in terms of generalizability―the merits are substantial: research outcomes will be able not only to give us a truer mapping of the real world, but also bring us closer to building knowledge which satisfies the scientific criterion of ‘falsifiability.’

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“…According to Timo Kivimaki (2011), consensus-based decision-making, which requires maximization efforts to save face for everyone involved, characterizes ASEAN's diplomatic approach. This can be done in lengthy negotiations and quiet, non-legalistic, personal confidence-building aimed at gradual don-playing and prevention of disputes by means that can be accepted unanimously, using the principle of the lowest common denominator (Kivimaki, 2011, p. 67).…”

Section: Flexible Consensusmentioning

confidence: 99%

ASEAN’s Role and Potential in East Asian Integration: Theoretical Approaches Revisited

Quyet¹

2015

UCPA

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Theoretical interpretation of the role and potential of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) remains controversial. Three salient theoretical approaches, neo-realist, neo-liberal, and domestic factors, have provided crucial explanations of ASEAN's weaknesses. These attributes, however, lack essential analytical tools to interpret ASEAN's role and potential in creating regionalism and regionalization in East Asia in the post-Cold War era.Given both theoretical and operational levels, constructivism is a predominant approach to portray the role and potential of ASEAN, particularly the role it plays in creating an increasingly connected web of cooperation and in managing the regional frameworks and arrangements with its founding principles and norms. While the endeavour on regionalization driven by the ASEAN Way and principles is impressive, the 2008-adopted Charter has marked a crucial step in ASEAN's institutional and political development for regionalism. The marginalization of the ASEAN Way, however, remains a default norm. Thus, much needs to be done to bring about strong political will and commitment per se toward the realization of the ASEAN Community and toward East Asian regionalism.Keywords: theoretical approaches, the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Way, regionalization, regionalism Explaining the role and potential of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) remains controversial theoretically. Neo-realists tend to focus on security and treat the balance of power as a key determinant of regional affairs and to be skeptical about the regional security management role played by ASEAN and about prospects for peaceful change. Neo-liberal theorists tend to prioritize their position on economic and institutional evolution and put their claims on ASEAN-driven regional projects characterized by low institutionalized frameworks and arrangements, thus leading to lacking high commitment required by institutions per se. While the two theoretical approaches are the major theoretical attributes to explain weaknesses of ASEAN in East Asian integration, domestic factors play a crucial role in capturing the understanding of interplay and interrelations between the impact of regionalism/regionalization and state behavior. Unlike the three above salient approaches, constructivist advocates focus their attention on ASEAN's ideational factors like norms, ideas, identity, and other cultural attributes through social-driven processes which contribute a great deal to creating an increasingly connected web of cooperation and which helps in turn enhance interaction of state actors for regional cooperation.

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East Asian relative peace and the ASEAN Way

Cited by 25 publications

References 31 publications

South Korea’s Interest in ASEAN+1: New Southern Policy and Peacebuilding

South Korea’s Interest in ASEAN+1: New Southern Policy and Peacebuilding

Elusive East Asia:MethodologicalSuggestions for the Study of East Asian Security

ASEAN’s Role and Potential in East Asian Integration: Theoretical Approaches Revisited

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