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East Asia

About: East Asia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17591 publications have been published within this topic receiving 274073 citations. The topic is also known as: Eastern Asia.


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TL;DR: In this article, the feasibility of creating a currency union in East Asia following closer monetary cooperations in recent years was investigated empirically using a four-variable structural VAR model.

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15 Mar 2007
TL;DR: Spielman's "America's Strategy in World Politics" as discussed by the authors examines world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective and predicts that the United States will help shape the global balance of power to meet its security needs.
Abstract: Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War, Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In "America's Strategy in World Politics", Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. The United States, he explained, was fighting for its very survival as an independent country because the conquests of Germany and Japan raised the specter of our geopolitical encirclement by hostile forces controlling the power centers of Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman warned that the United States could not safely retreat to a defensive position in the Western Hemisphere. Spykman looked beyond the immediate strategic requirements of the Second World War, envisioning a postwar world in which the United States would help shape the global balance of power to meet its security needs. Even though Soviet Russia was our wartime ally, Spykman recognized that a geopolitically unbalanced Soviet Union could threaten to upset the postwar balance of power and thereby endanger U.S. security. Spykman also foresaw the rise of China in postwar Asia, and the likely need for the United States to ally itself with Japan to balance China's power. He also recognized that the Middle East would play a pivotal role in the postwar world. Spykman influenced American postwar statesmen and strategists. During the Cold War, the U.S. sought to deny the Soviet Union political control of Western Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman's geopolitical vision of U.S. security, supported by a balanced Eurasian land mass, coupled with his focus on power as the governing force in international relations, makes "America's Strategy in World Politics" relevant to the twenty-first century.

98 citations

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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors examined China's historical practice of foreign relations and found that there was no systematic tributary system, but instead multiple relationships of trade, military force, diplomacy and ritual, and China's neighbors did not accept the imperial center's definition of hierarchy and subordination, but interpreted ritual relationships in their own way.
Abstract: Recently, some writers on Chinese foreign relations have argued that the tributary system is a useful concept for describing imperial China's relations with its neighbors, and that it can even serve as a model for the future of international relations in East Asia. An examination of China's historical practice of foreign relations shows that there was no systematic tributary system, but instead multiple relationships of trade, military force, diplomacy and ritual. Furthermore, China's neighbors did not accept the imperial center's definition of hierarchy and subordination, but interpreted ritual relationships in their own way. Even in the 1930s, when scholars invoked Chinese history to advocate peaceful relations, they recognized the importance of military force, colonial settlement and domination in East Asian state relationships. The current myth of the tributary system ignores historical reality and misleads us about China's true position in East Asia and the world.

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TL;DR: The authors argues that the future trajectory of ASEAN Plus Three, and of the region more generally, will continue to be constrained by internal tensions and - especially - by the continuing influence of the United States.
Abstract: The course of regional integration in East Asia has been shaped by a complex mix of internal and external factors. Although the emergence of initiatives like 'ASEAN Plus Three' appears to indicate that East Asia is assuming a more independent and regionally-oriented place in the international system, this paper argues that the future trajectory of ASEAN Plus Three, and of the region more generally, will continue to be constrained by internal tensions and - especially - by the continuing influence of the United States. In short, for the foreseeable future East Asia will be marked by a form of 'reactionary regionalism' in which regional initiatives are designed to mediate and moderate external influences.

98 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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20242
2023609
20221,266
2021377
2020478
2019465