Overview
- Provides essential reading for students and scholars of peace and conflict studies, anthropology, sociology and social psychology
- Offers alternative and authoritative theoretical perspectives on East Asia
- Seeks more positive relationships and deeper reconciliation between China, Japan and Korea
Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited collection explores how East Asia’s painful history continues to haunt the relationships between its countries and peoples. Through a largely social-psychological and constructivist lens, the authors examine the ways in which historical memory and unmet identity needs generates mutual suspicion, xenophobic nationalism and tensions in the bilateral and trilateral relationships within the region. This text not only addresses some of the domestic drivers of Japanese, Chinese and South Korean foreign policy - and the implications of increasingly autocratic rule in all three countries – but also analyses the way in which new security mechanisms and processes advancing trust, confidence and reconciliation can replace those generating mistrust, antagonism and insecurity.
Reviews
“The volume is an excellent starting point to understand the difficulties of reconciliation and closer collaboration in the region. With its well-rounded choice of authors and their empathetic efforts, combined with the very thoughtful and balanced summary by the editor, the book provides a valuable contribution not only to political and sociological practice, but to academic research as well.” (H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, January, 31 , 2019)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Identity, Trust, and Reconciliation in East Asia
Book Subtitle: Dealing with Painful History to Create a Peaceful Present
Editors: Kevin P Clements
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54897-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54896-8Published: 20 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85513-4Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54897-5Published: 10 October 2017
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 302
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Politics, Peace Studies, Conflict Studies, Asian History