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Asia Pacific Security - Values and Identity (Hardcover, New)
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Asia Pacific Security - Values and Identity (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Security in Asia Series
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The main theme of this book is that security is not just about
defense from external attack, but embraces the protection of
identity and values which cultures regard as important, and which
they may regard as worth fighting for. It examines Asia Pacific
security from the perspective of the values and identities of the
major actors in the region - China, Japan, the Koreas and the USA -
and highlights in particular the importance for China of the idea
of a centralized state, and the impact of this on the question of
the status of Taiwan; pacifism in Japan, which is at odds with US
demands for Japan to take on a larger security role in the region;
American values and political culture, which determine US policy in
the region, but which are not necessarily universal values as
American leaders like to think; and the clashing values of the two
Koreas - the South keen for engagement, the North determinedly
resisting it. It goes on to argue that the development of Asia
Pacific regionalism is deeply affected by theclash of values
between Asia and the US, that the values and identities of Asian
actors have been misunderstood by the West, and that there can be
no true security in the Asia Pacific region unless the values and
identities of Asian actors are accommodated.
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