Conference presentation
Overlapping regional mechanisms of security governance: Adlerian concepts in Northeast Asia
2012 University Research Conference Program Book, p.23
USC Research Conference, 2012 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 09-Jul-2012–13-Jul-2012)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2012
Abstract
The Northeast Asian region's predilection for regional groupings stretching back decades warrants a fresh examination of how regional leadership might seek to reconfigure a strategic security bloc. This paper continues an ongoing exploration of the potential for a northeast Asian security community, the significance of natural resources as an identifiable, mutually-constitutive norm of that community, and advances on the theoretical debates which operate at the juncture of the so-called 'East and West' discourse in International Relations. The recent growth of China's status shadowing Japan's earlier economic pre-eminence, and the historical enmity which figures in most analyses of the region's relationships, has encouraged most who view the region to examine it in terms of a (neo)classic balance of power contest. There is little in the region, many surmise, to advance the idea of a pluralistic security community. The approach embodied within the security community struggles to assert its potential when 'classical' balance-of-power scenarios begin to once again dominate regional relations. it provides a timely opportunity to extend the formative precepts of the very sort of case study proposed by Adler and Greve, that examine what might be done when 'security community practices become institutionalised in China's halls of government and begin competing for attention and resources with classic balance of power practices' (Adler and Greve, 2009: 84). What might a Northeast Asian security community mean for the region and to what extent can the theoretical concept withstand the practical test of bilateral or intraregional disputes to be explored in this paper?
Details
- Title
- Overlapping regional mechanisms of security governance: Adlerian concepts in Northeast Asia
- Authors
- Donna Weeks (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication details
- 2012 University Research Conference Program Book, p.23
- Conference details
- USC Research Conference, 2012 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 09-Jul-2012–13-Jul-2012)
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2012
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449385802621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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