Sovereignty and status in East Asian international relations /

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Author / Creator:	Park, Seo-Hyun, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	x, 212 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	National security -- East Asia. Strategic culture -- East Asia. East Asian cooperation. Sovereignty. Diplomatic relations. East Asian cooperation. National security. Sovereignty. Strategic culture. East Asia -- Foreign relations. East Asia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11457233

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ISBN:	9781107182356 1107182352
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-209) and index.
Summary:	"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 international hierarchy - reconstructed in the late nineteenth century. The mechanism that reproduces this lens of hierarchy is domestic legitimacy politics in which embattled political leaders contest the meaning of sovereign autonomy. Park argues that the idea of status-seeking has remained embedded in the concept of sovereign autonomy and endures through distinct and alternative security frames that continue to inform contemporary strategic debates in East Asia. This book makes a significant contribution to debates in IR theory and security studies about autonomy and status, as well as to the now extensive literature on the nature of East Asian regional order"--

Table of Contents:

Sovereignty as status: hierarchy and East Asian international relations
How hierarchy endures
Hierarchy and regional order in premodern East Asia
The emergence of sovereign autonomy as a modern security concept
Enduring hierarchy in postwar East Asia
Competing frames of autonomy and domestic legitimacy politics in Japan and South Korea during the Cold War
Contesting autonomy and alliance in post-Cold War East Asia
Which historical legacies matter in East Asian international relations?

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