TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges to and Opportunities for International Organisation in East Asia
AU - Howe, Brendan M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 University of Kent.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Declarations of a “New World Order”, and the “end of history”, formed part of the optimism that, with the end of the Cold War, international organisation as a process, and international organisations (IOs), the physical manifestations of this process, held promise as never before for the provision of international peace and security. Yet East Asia was missing out. With ongoing ideological divides, deep historical mistrust, territorial conflicts, and jealous defence of sovereign state prerogatives, it seemed that the region was doomed to be an exception. Three decades later, despite the proliferation of IOs, East Asian exceptionalism persists. This paper, therefore, assesses why the peace and security-generating function of international organisation has proven so difficult to manifest in East Asia, what hope there may be for progress, and the prospects of several of the main candidate organisations.
AB - Declarations of a “New World Order”, and the “end of history”, formed part of the optimism that, with the end of the Cold War, international organisation as a process, and international organisations (IOs), the physical manifestations of this process, held promise as never before for the provision of international peace and security. Yet East Asia was missing out. With ongoing ideological divides, deep historical mistrust, territorial conflicts, and jealous defence of sovereign state prerogatives, it seemed that the region was doomed to be an exception. Three decades later, despite the proliferation of IOs, East Asian exceptionalism persists. This paper, therefore, assesses why the peace and security-generating function of international organisation has proven so difficult to manifest in East Asia, what hope there may be for progress, and the prospects of several of the main candidate organisations.
KW - East Asia
KW - International organisation
KW - challenges
KW - opportunities
KW - peacebuilding
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108259206&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13600826.2021.1942800
DO - 10.1080/13600826.2021.1942800
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108259206
SN - 1360-0826
VL - 35
SP - 501
EP - 521
JO - Global Society
JF - Global Society
IS - 4
ER -