| ID | 074746 |
| Title Proper | Beneath the eagle's wings? The political economy of Northeast Asian burden-sharing in comparative perspective |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Calder, Kent E |
| Publication | 2006. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper examines Japanese and South Korean host-nation support (HNS) policies toward American forces deployed in those two countries from a comparative perspective. It finds that both countries provide substantial support for US forces, contrary to the expectations of collective action theory and the assumptions of many international relations theorists about free-riding. Northeast Asian HNS support tends to be both quantitatively substantial and to involve an unusually elaborate range of common support programs, thus constituting a distinctive Northeast Asian model of “burden-sharing.” The specific programs supporting US forces in these two countries were generally designed by local politicians and bureaucrats, with only minimal input from the US, albeit under American pressure. They were implemented in discontinuous fashion, at critical junctures, as during the Gulf War and the first Korean nuclear crisis. These results thus provide useful elaboration of “reactive state” and “critical juncture” interpretations of how East Asian policymaking relates to domestic and international politics. |
| `In' analytical Note | Asian Security Vol. 2, No. 3; 2006: p148-173 |
| Journal Source | Asian Security Vol: 2 No 3 |
| Key Words | Northeast Asia ; Political Economy ; Japan ; South Korea |