Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power, and Efficiency

by Allen Carlson and Peter J. Katzenstein

Book Overview

Is East Asia heading toward war? Throughout the 1990s, conventional wisdom among U.S. scholars of international relations held that institutionalized cooperation in Europe fosters peace, while its absence from East Asia portends conflict. Developments in Europe and Asia in the 1990s contradict the conventional wisdom without discrediting it. Explanations that derive from only one paradigm or research program have shortcomings beyond their inability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804749795
• ISBN13: 9780804749794
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"