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Post-Cold War East Asia has attracted the attention of security specialists, because the political landscape in East Asia has kept changing, especially in the Korean peninsula and China.1 Realists in International Relations expect an increasing number of future conflicts and crises in this area, so that for example Richard K. Betts predicts “it [East Asia] is becoming less stable as an area of great power interaction.”2 On the other hand, liberal theorists tend to see a more stable Asia that is based on fast economic growth, democratization, and the American commitment. For example, G. John Ikenberry elegantly analyses that the constitutional features of American postwar order provided mechanisms and venues to build political as well as economic relations. Hence, he said they produced massive “increasing returns.”3 Depending upon approaches and perspectives one may adopt, different future security frameworks in Asia will be expected to emerge, ranging from a balance-of-power system to a security community.4
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Tsuchiyama, J. (2003). From Balancing to Networking: Models of Regional Security in Asia. In: Ikenberry, G.J., Inoguchi, T. (eds) Reinventing the Alliance: U.S.-Japan Security Partnership in an Era of Change. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980199_3
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