Competing Sovereignty Regimes Within Northeast Asia
Year: 2022

This chapter examines how a regional security order is being shaped in Northeast Asia, focusing on the links between sovereignty and regional security issues to investigate security “bottlenecks.” One remarkable aspect of the Northeast Asia region is the lack of an effective security cooperation mechanism among regional actors, even after the end of the Cold War. Instead of stunted regionalism, US-led alliance networks have maintained a regional security order in the face of various transformati