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ID112462
Title ProperRegion-building and critical juncture
Other Title InformationEurope and northeast Asia in comparative perspective
LanguageENG
AuthorJo, Sam-Sang
Publication2012.
Summary / Abstract (Note)China, Japan, and Korea have begun to engage one another vigorously since the 1997 crisis. As intraregional economic ties have further deepened and broadened, interconnectedness in cultural and political aspects has risen rapidly in a variety of forms. Decision-makers and intellectuals in China, Japan, and Korea have been floating ideas and interests for establishing various types of Northeast Asian community formation. New security dialogues and co-operation frameworks also emerge. Accordingly, the rapidly growing Northeast Asia is likely to emerge as an identifiable regional community. With the incipient emergence of regional community in Northeast Asia, Northeast Asian region-building becomes a salient issue of major academic and policy debates. Yet, in spite of the recent mushrooming of research in and attention to the region-building, the questions regarding within what surrounding and under what situation regional community can be built, as well as what motivates people to choose region-building, and when and how state system can be transformed into a regional community remains only partly resolved. In order to solve this puzzle, this paper will compare the current Northeast Asian region-building with the early stage of European region-building, arguing that while there are important differences in evolution, format, and kind of region-building in Europe and Northeast Asia, critical juncture is influential in region-building.
`In' analytical NoteAsia Europe Journal Vol. 10, No.1; May 2012: p.1-20
Journal SourceAsia Europe Journal Vol. 10, No.1; May 2012: p.1-20
Key WordsChina ;  Japan ;  Korea ;  Europe ;  Northeast Asia ;  Critical Juncture ;  New Security Dialogues