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1 online resource (224 pages) : 7 figures, 19 |
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Part I Theories; 1 International and Regional Cooperation; 2 Th e Asian Way and the Pacifi c Way; Part II Dynamics; 3 Waves of Asian Regional Cooperation; 4 Waves of Pacifi c Regional Cooperation; 5 Pivotal Roles in Regional Cooperation; Part III Effectiveness; 6 Creating Arenas of Peace; 7 Successful Security Communities; Notes; References; Index |
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An exploration of why and how peace has gradually mitigated intense conflict in the Asia-Pacific region, this volume draws on case studies and multivariate quantitative analysis to test theories of peace and conflict regarding the region. Asia and the Pacific have been transformed from a bloody zone of conflict to an unparalled arena of peace over the past 50 years. The reason, as explained in this book, is that leaders of Asian and Pacific countries undertook concerted and creative diplomatic efforts to find ways to cooperate informally through international institutions. To explain how the transformation occurred, the book examines the cultural-historical-theoretical context, more than 100 institutions of regional cooperation, the disposition of almost 100 subregional conflicts, and diplomatic underpinnings at subregional and regional levels. The book also provides the first quantitative test of competing theories of regional integration by Karl Deutsch, Ernst Haas, and other prominent scholars in order to discover the empirical underpinnings of the extraordinary success story of regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific |
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Nobel Peace Prize nominee Michael Haas is a graduate of Stanford and Yale. He is the author of more than 40 pathbreaking publications, most recently Barack Obama, The Aloha Zen President: How a Son of the 50th State May Revitalize America Based on 12 Multicultural Principles (2011), George W. Bush, War Criminal: The Bush Administrations's Liability for 239 War Crimes? (2009), America's War Crimes Quagmire: From Bush to Obama (2011), the widely accepted textbook International Human Rights: A Comprehensive Introduction (2013), Looking for the Aloha Spirit; Promoting Ethnic Harmony (2010), Modern Cambodia's Emergence from the Killing Fields: What Happened in the Critical Years? (2011), and the second edition of Korean Reunification: Alternative Pathways (2012). After teaching for 35 years at the University of Hawai'i, with visiting appointments at Northwestern University, Purdue University, the University of California (Riverside), the University of London, and several California State University campuses, he relocated to California, where he is President of the Political Film Society and is on the faculty at California Polytechnic University, Pomona |
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PART I: THEORIES Theories of Regionalism The Asian Way and the Pacific Way PART II: DYNAMICS Waves of Asian Regional Cooperation Waves of Pacific Regional Cooperation Pivotal Roles in Regional Cooperation PART III: EFFECTIVENESS Creating Arenas of Peace Successful Security Communities |
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Peace-building -- Asia
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Peace-building -- Pacific Area
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Conflict management -- Asia
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Conflict management -- Pacific Area
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International relations -- Asia.
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Politics and Government.
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Conflict management
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Peace-building
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Politics and government
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Asia -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003817
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Pacific Area -- Politics and government
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Asia
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Pacific Area
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Electronic book
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9781137304407 |
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1137304405 |
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