Proceedings of 7th Global Business and Social Science Research Conference
13 - 14 June, 2013, Radisson Blu Hotel, Beijing, China, ISBN: 978-1-922069-26-9
Major Challenges To The Management of Regional Security
in East Asia- Is There Still A Harmony Between Regional
And Global Security Agendas?
Visne Korkmaz
Since the end of the Cold War super power overlay, East Asian regional
security has continued to be example of successful regional security
management. The discourse of Asian Peace or ASEAN Way is a kind of
continuation of rhetoric of Asian Miracle and reflects the harmony – or at least
convergence- between global and regional security agendas based on idea of
merits of liberal economic development. Though this harmony between
liberalism and development agenda was succeeded –at least on rhetorical
basis- major instrument of it, cooperative security, led the actors of regional
security put their bets both on best and worst case scenario. Therefore both
moderation and strategic hedging became part of tradition of regional security in
East Asia.
That is why today the possible limits and efficiency of strategic hedging is
discussed by the scholars and practisers of regional security under the impact
of three challenges: i-power asymmetry challenge based on the question of
what would be the future of great power politics in East Asia, ii- North Korean
challenge based on the question of what would be the future of denuclearization
norm in East Asia, iii- challenge against state-centric region view based on the
question of what would be the future of Pax-Asia.
This paper briefly evaluates the future of East Asian regional security
management mechanisms under these three challenges by focusing on the
question of whether there is still a harmony between regional and global
security agendas?
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Assoc. Prof. Visne Korkmaz, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey, Email: visnekorkmaz@hotmail.com,