Sovereignty and Status in East Asian International Relations

Sovereignty and Status in East Asian International Relations
Author: Seo-Hyun Park
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316864413

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 international relations theory and security studies about autonomy and status, as well as to the now extensive literature on the nature of East Asian regional order.

Sovereignty and Status in East Asian International Relations

Sovereignty and Status in East Asian International Relations
Author: Seo-Hyun Park
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107182352

This book shows how historical experiences have affected East Asian security debates, as reflected in enduring concerns with sovereign autonomy.

ASEAN Resistance to Sovereignty Violation

ASEAN Resistance to Sovereignty Violation
Author: Southgate, Laura
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2019-05-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529202205

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Examining how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) has responded to external threats over the past 50 years, this book provides a compelling account of regional state actions and foreign policy in the face of potential sovereignty violation. The author draws on a large amount of previously unanalysed material, including declassified government documents and WikiLeaks cables, to examine four key cases since 1975. Taking into account state interests and the role of external powers, the author develops the ‘vanguard state theory’ to explain ASEAN state responses to sovereignty violation, which, it is argued, has universal applicability and explanatory power.

East Asia in the World

East Asia in the World
Author: Stephan Haggard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108479871

This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.

Sovereignty and Authenticity

Sovereignty and Authenticity
Author: Prasenjit Duara
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2004-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0585463859

In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. His study of Manchukuo, which had a population of 40 million and was three times the area of Japan, catalyzes a broader understanding of new global trends that characterized much of the twentieth century. Asking why Manchukuo so desperately sought to appear sovereign, Duara examines the cultural and political resources it mobilized to make claims of sovereignty. He argues that Manchukuo, as a transparently constructed 'nation-state,' offers a unique historical laboratory for examining the utilization and transformation of circulating global forces mediated by the 'East Asian modern.' Sovereignty and AUthenticity not only shows how Manchukuo drew technologies of modern nationbuilding from China and Japan, but it provides a window into how some of these techniques and processes were obscured or naturalized in the more successful East Asian nation-states. With its sweepingly original theoretical and comparative perspectives on nationalism and imperialism, this book will be essential reading for all those interested in contemporary history.

China, State Sovereignty and International Legal Order

China, State Sovereignty and International Legal Order
Author: Phil C.W. Chan
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004288376

China’s rise has aroused apprehension that it will revise the current rules of international order to pursue and reflect its power, and that, in its exercise of State sovereignty, it is unlikely to comply with international law. This book explores the extent to which China’s exercise of State sovereignty since the Opium War has shaped and contributed to the legitimacy and development of international law and the direction in which international legal order in its current form may proceed. It examines how international law within a normative–institutional framework has moderated China’s exercise of State sovereignty and helps mediate differences between China’s and other States’ approaches to State sovereignty, such that State sovereignty, and international law, may be better understood.

The World Imagined

The World Imagined
Author: Hendrik Spruyt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108870678

Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, Spruyt explains the political organization of three non-European international societies from early modernity to the late nineteenth century. The Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; the Sinocentric tributary system; and the Southeast Asian galactic empires, all which differed in key respects from the modern Westphalian state system. In each of these societies, collective beliefs were critical in structuring domestic orders and relations with other polities. These multi-ethnic empires allowed for greater accommodation and heterogeneity in comparison to the homogeneity that is demanded by the modern nation-state. Furthermore, Spruyt examines the encounter between these non-European systems and the West. Contrary to unidirectional descriptions of the encounter, these non-Westphalian polities creatively adapted to Western principles of organization and international conduct. By illuminating the encounter of the West and these Eurasian polities, this book serves to question the popular wisdom of modernity, wherein the Western nation-state is perceived as the desired norm, to be replicated in other polities.

Sovereignty in China

Sovereignty in China
Author: Maria Adele Carrai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2019-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108474195

This book provides a comprehensive history of the emergence and the formation of the concept of sovereignty in China from the year 1840 to the present. It contributes to broadening the history of modern China by looking at the way the notion of sovereignty was gradually articulated by key Chinese intellectuals, diplomats and political figures in the unfolding of the history of international law in China, rehabilitates Chinese agency, and shows how China challenged Western Eurocentric assumptions about the progress of international law. It puts the history of international law in a global perspective, interrogating the widely-held belief of international law as universal order and exploring the ways in which its history is closely anchored to a European experience that fails to take into account how the encounter with other non-European realities has influenced its formation.

Contesting International Society in East Asia

Contesting International Society in East Asia
Author: Barry Buzan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2014-10-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107077478

This book asks whether a regional international society exists in East Asia and why its existence matters to both regional and global orders.