Why War in Asia Remains Thinkable

White, Hugh

doi:10.1080/00396330802601875

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“…Using the same logic, observers have been quick to interpret the ups and downs in Southeast Asia's bilateral disputes in the context of ostensive great-power strategies, including but not limited to those of China and the United States together with the latter's Asian allies (Storey 2011). Consequently, we are led to believe that Southeast Asia's significantly stable international order was the result of some type of overarching great-power balance (White 2008), a view that is both theoretically and empirically questionable. Unless one assumes that balance-of-power politics produced Southeast Asia's territorial peace by default, neither a macro-regional nor a global balancing logic can provide a satisfactory answer to the stability-despite-territorial-disputes puzzle.…”

Section: The Great Powersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Territorial Disputes in Southeast Asia: Is There more than the South China Sea?

Jenne

2017

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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The conflicts in the South China Sea have come to dominate debates on Southeast Asian security and specifically on how boundary disputes have been managed within the region. Yet, the case is not necessarily exemplary for the way Southeast Asian countries have dealt with territorial disputes generally. The article gathers three common perceptions about conflict management that are strongly informed by the South China Sea case, but have lesser relevance when looking at other territorial conflicts in the region. I offer a critical reading of the who, why, and how of territorial conflict management and provide tentative guidelines on what to expect in the future.

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Section: The Great Powersmentioning

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Managing Territorial Disputes in Southeast Asia: Is There more than the South China Sea?

Jenne

2017

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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“…According to White (2008), peace and stability in Asia Pacific can be maintained because of the US's role in doing what it is called as 'double reassurance' strategy. In this case, peace in the Asia Pacific, in what White called as post Vietnam order, emerged from the deal of the US double reassurance.…”

Section: Peace Security and Great Power Rivalry In Asia Pacificmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Meanwhile for Chine itself, the concert would delay China's interest in getting regional primacy and put China to remain accepted the US role in the region. It also gives burden to China to acknowledge Japan's primacy and strategic role in the region meanwhile Japan in attempt to transform itself to be a credible regional strategic player (White, 2008).…”

Section: Great Power Concert Model In Asia Pacificmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Among his models, White suggests that European Power Concert is 'the most promising option' for Asia Pacific order. The model requires major powers such as China, the US, and Japan, to engage in a cooperative relationship and to acknowledge the power legitimacy among others without dominating and confronting in a violent conflict among others (White, 2008). The model of course would place a huge burden to each major power and otherwise would instead lead the Asia Pacific region into the risk of major conflict.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Great Power Rivalry in a New Asia Pacific Order: Examining the Great Power Concert Model for Asia Pacific

Anam

2014

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AbstrakMeningkatnya kekuatan China di kawasan Asia Pasifik memimpin tatanan regional untuk menghadapi potensi persaingan antara kekuatan besar yang ada di wilayah tersebut. Tulisan ini berusaha untuk meneliti kekuatan persaingan besar dalam urutan Asia Pasifik yang baru. Seperti yang diusulkan oleh Hugh White (2008 ), tulisan Ini berpendapat bahwa ' the European great power concert model" berpotensi menjadi cara untuk menjaga perdamaian dan stabilitas di kawasan Asia Pasifik, namun memiliki masalah yang cukup besar dan hambatan untuk diterapkan di wilayah tersebut Kata Kunci: Persaingan kekuatan besar, China, Amerika, Great Power Concert Model AbstractChina's rising power in the Asia Pacific region is leading the regional order to face a potential of rivalry between existing great powers in the region. This paper hence seeks to investigate the great power rivalry in a new Asia Pacific order. It argues that while 'the European great power concert model', as proposed by Hugh White (2008), could potentially be a mechanism for maintaining peace and stability in the Asia Pacific region, it has considerable problems and obstacles to be applied in the region.

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“…18 A third debate that this study evaluates is the likelihood of whether Asia will be pacific (or not) in the twenty-first century. 19 A conscious attempt will be made to relate the discussion to the central propositions in current academic literature, which can be summarized along the following lines. A significant proportion of the literature has highlighted the utility of nonmaterial variables, including liberal regime type, 20 socialization processes, norms, and identities.…”

Section: Major Debatesmentioning

confidence: 99%