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"Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex global problems in the region, including nuclear weapons, urban insecurity, energy, and climate change. Detailed case studies of 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 doing so, the book identifies 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 presents 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 that official 'complex diplomacy' cannot. By providing a new theoretical framework based on empirical observation, this volume 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."--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

• Contributors
• Preface / Peter Hayes and Kiho Yi
• 1. Introduction / Peter Hayes, Kiho Yi, and Joan Diamond
• 2. Global Problems, Complexity, and Civil Society in East Asia / Peter Hayes and Richard Tanter
• 3. Energy Security and the Role of Green Economies in East Asia / David von Hippel with Yi Wang, Kae Takase, Tetsunari Iida, Myungrae Cho, and Sun-Jin Yun
• 4. Urban Security and Complexity in Northeast Asia / Sanghun Lee and Takayuki Minato with Peter Hayes
• 5. Complexity and Weapons of Mass Destruction in Northeast Asia / Peter Hayes and Roger Cavazos
• 6. The Implications of Civic Diplomacy for ROK Foreign Policy / Kiho Yi and Peter Hayes with Joan Diamond, Steven Denney, Christopher Green, and Jungmin Seo
• 7. Anticipating Complex Northeast Asian Futures / Peter Hayes, Joan Diamond, and Kiho Yi
• Bibliography
• Index.

Contributors:

Hayes, Peter, 1953- , editor

Yi, Kiho , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Complexity, security and civil society in East Asia (Cambridge, U.K. : Open Book Pub., ©2015 — ISBN 1783741139; OCLC Number 919400155)

Subjects:

National security — East Asia

National security — East Asia — International cooperation

Civil society — East Asia

Diplomacy

East Asia — Foreign relations

National security

National security — International cooperation

Civil society

Diplomatic relations

Asia — Orient

East Asia

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-442) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 451 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

UA832.5 .C667 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781783741151 (electronic bk.)
1783741155 (electronic bk.)
9781783741144 (electronic bk.)
1783741147 (electronic bk.)
9781783741120 [Invalid]
1783741120 [Invalid]
9781783741137 [Invalid]
1783741139 [Invalid]
9781783741168 [Invalid]
1783741163
9781783741168

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.11647/OBP.0059

OCLC Numbers:

915725025