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China - Japan - South Korea: a tense ménage à trois
- Source :
- SWP Research Paper
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- DEU, 2017.
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Abstract
- China, Japan and South Korea are the largest economies in East Asia and, as such, play a decisive role in the region's prosperity and security. Their relations with each other, however, are increasingly marked by tensions in the absence of a regional organisation or institution playing a stabilising role. This study considers a constellation that has so far received little attention, namely the cooperation between these three states, which began in the late 1990s and has since established itself as an independent format. The study's central question is whether this trilateral cooperation can bring forth a new model of interaction in Northeast Asia, or whether it only confirms and reproduces existing (and predominantly negative) trends. The research has two focal points: it analyses developments within the three sets of bilateral relations, and provides a systematic overview of the extent of this trilateral cooperation to date. It shows that tensions within the Northeast-Asian triangle are caused not only by historic, territorial and maritime conflict, but also by the increasing competition between the US and China for primacy in the Asia-Pacific. To date trilateral cooperation between Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul therefore has a mixed but overall modest balance sheet, especially in security policy. The format is nevertheless significant in that it provides an institutional framework for exchanging views and keeps open channels of communication below "high politics", even in times of heightened bilateral tensions. (author's abstract)
- Subjects :
- China
Far East
Politikwissenschaft
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
Südkorea
Internationale Beziehungen
Sicherheitspolitik
Japan
security policy
South Korea
Entwicklung
internationale Zusammenarbeit
political relations
bilateral relations
Political science
development
Ostasien
bilaterale Beziehungen
international cooperation
international relations
economic relations
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
ddc:320
politische Beziehungen
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
ddc:327
Subjects
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- SWP Research Paper
- Accession number :
- edsair.dedup.wf.001..89fe05d72fab3cc2afecec33db3ab636