1st Edition
Strategic Triangles Reshaping International Relations in East Asia
By Gilbert Rozman
Copyright 2022
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
Rozman shows how East Asia’s international relations over three decades can be best understood through the lens of triangles, analyzing relations between the key nations through a series of trilateral relationships.
He argues that triangles present a convincing answer to the question of whether we had entered a new era of bipolarity like the Cold War or an age of multipolarity. Triangulation... Read more
1. Introduction: How Triangularity Changed the New Face of East Asia Part One: The Legacy of the Cold War 2. China, Russia, the United States: The New Face of the Grand Strategic Triangle 3. China, Russia, North Korea: The Shadow of the Socialist Bloc 4. China, North Korea, the United States: The Shadow of the Cold War Part Two: South Korea as the Pivot of Transformation 5. South Korea, China, the United States: The Pivot of Regional Transformation 6. China, South Korea, Japan: The Renewed Core Regional Triangle 7. South Korea, Japan, the United States: The New face of the Alliance Triangle Part Three: New Tests for the Japan-US Alliance 8. Japan, China, the United States: The Core Great Power Triangle 9. Japan, the United Stages, Russia: The Test for Boundary Crossing 10. Japan, the United States, Australia, India: The Quad – an Exception 11. Conclusion: Triangularity Adjusts to Bipolarity
Biography
Gilbert Rozman is the Emeritus Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, USA–where he taught for 43 years. He is the editor-in-chief of The Asan Forum, a bi-monthly online journal on international relations in the Indo-Pacific region. His research over the years has concentrated on countries in Northeast Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States, and their relations to each other. He has relied heavily on primary sources from these countries. Among other frameworks, he has explored how national identities shape bilateral relations, developing an interdisciplinary social science approach outside the mainstream.
