| ID | 079852 |
| Title Proper | War-like history or diplomatic history? Contentions over the past and regional orders in Northeast Asia |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Suh, J J |
| Publication | 2007. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Northeast Asian countries have been engaged in disputes over history. While their historical contentions have caused suspicion and friction among them, I argue that they have also served as a medium of dialogue that helps establish a common understanding about the individual countries' contemporary reality and future direction. Historical contentions contribute to such a dialogue if and only if two conditions are met: regional actors recognise each other as legitimate participants in a dialogue about the salient past; and they contend over the past within a common framework of meaning. Northeast Asia, through historical contentions in the 1980s and 1990s, produced an embryonic form of a regional public sphere that made possible transnational communications about the region's future and each nation's desires, but it now stands at a fork between strengthening the regional public sphere and fracturing it into a contentious regional sphere. |
| `In' analytical Note | Australian Journal of International Affairs Vol. 61, No.3; Sep 2007: p382-402 |
| Journal Source | Australian Journal of International Affairs Vol. 61, No.3; Sep 2007: p382-402 |
| Key Words | Northeast Asia |