1st Edition

Nationalist Entrepreneurs and Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia Sustaining Public Interest

By Jiun Bang Copyright 2026
170 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores how nationalism surrounding territorial sovereignty requires a domestic nationalist ecosystem, aka the Nationalist Industrial Complex, to sustain public interest. It focuses on nationalist entrepreneurs representing local merchants who commodify nationalism by building businesses that explicitly incorporate elements of territorial sovereignty protection, e.g. food and apparel... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The business of nationalism

Chapter 1: The Nationalist Industrial Complex (NIC) and discourses

Chapter 2: Public awareness vs. public interest

Chapter 3: Dokdo bread, Diaoyudao noodles, and Northern Territories apparel

Chapter 4: The curious case of trademarks

Conclusion: Gatekeepers, not instigators? 

Index

Biography

Jiun Bang is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Her thematic research interests include International Relations Theory (IRT), Security Studies, and gender/gendering, with a regional focus on Northeast Asia that typically includes China, Japan, and South Korea. She has published on South Korean female legislators (2023) and the religious far-right in South Korea (2025).