Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia: Foreign Policies and the Korean Peninsula - cover image

Copyright

Peter Hayes; Kiho Yi

Published On

2015-06-22

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-112-0
Hardback978-1-78374-113-7
PDF978-1-78374-114-4
HTML978-1-80064-486-1
XML978-1-78374-644-6
EPUB978-1-78374-115-1
MOBI978-1-78374-116-8

Language

  • English

Print Length

470 pages (xiv + 456)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 24 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.95" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 25 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1443g (50.90oz)
Hardback1835g (64.73oz)

Media

Illustrations37

OCLC Number

915725025

LCCN

2019467890

BIC

  • JPSD
  • 1FP
  • JPSF

BISAC

  • POL011010
  • POL054000

LCC

  • UA832.5

Keywords

  • Civil society
  • civic diplomacy
  • nuclear weapons
  • urban insecurity
  • energy
  • climate change
  • China
  • Korea
  • Japan

Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia

Foreign Policies and the Korean Peninsula

  • Peter Hayes (editor)
  • Kiho Yi (editor)
Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex global problems including nuclear weapons, urban insecurity, energy, and climate change in the region. Detailed case studies in China, North and South Korea, and Japan demonstrate the importance of civil society and 'civic diplomacy' in reaching shared solutions to these problems in East Asia and beyond. Each chapter describes regional civil society initiatives that tackle complex challenges to East Asia’s security. In so doing the book presents key pressure points at which civil society can push for constructive changes ― especially ones that reduce the North Korean threat to its neighbors. Unusually, this book is both theoretical and practical. Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia identifies strategies that can be led by civil society and negotiated by its diplomats to realize peace, security and sustainability worldwide. It shows that networked civic diplomacy offers solutions to these urgent issues in ways that official ‘complex diplomacy’ cannot. By providing a new theoretical framework based on empirical observation, the book is a must read for diplomats, scholars, students, journalists, activists and individual readers seeking insight into how to solve the crucial issues of our time.

Endorsements

This collective intellectual endeavour opens the door to an emerging new filed of collaborative public diplomacy, 'civic diplomacy', in which civil society organizations as well as local governments collaborate via transnational networks to envision, propagate, and implement shared solutions to such complex global problems as environmental, energy, nuclear, and urban insecurity.

Prof. Taehwan Kim

Korea National Diplomatic Academy

Contents

1. Introduction

(pp. 1–12)
  • Peter Hayes
  • Kiho Yi
  • Joan Diamond
  • David von Hippel
  • Yi Wang
  • Kae Takase
  • Tetsunari Iida
  • Myungrae Cho
  • Sun-Jin Yun
  • Sanghun Lee
  • Takayuki Minato
  • Peter Hayes
  • Kiho Yi
  • Peter Hayes
  • Joan Diamond
  • Steven Denney
  • Christopher Green
  • Jungmin Seo
  • Peter Hayes
  • Joan Diamond
  • Kiho Yi

Contributors

Peter Hayes

(editor)
Professor, Centre for International Security Studies at University of Sydney

Kiho Yi

(editor)
Executive Director of the Center for Peace and Public Integrity at Hanshin University