The East Asian Peace Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding

Using a case study based approach, Weissmann analyses the post-Cold War East Asian security setting to demonstrate why there is a paradoxical inter-state peace. He points out processes that have been important for the creation of a continuing re

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THE THE EAST EAST ASIAN ASIAN PEACE PEACE CONFLICT CONFLICT PREVENTION PREVENTION AND AND INFORMAL INFORMAL PEACEBUILDING PEACEBUILDING

Mikael Mikael Weissmann Weissmann

Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Series Series Editor: Mark Beeson, Winthrop Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific showcases new research and scholarship on what is arguably the most important region in the world in the twenty-first century. The rise of China and the continuing strategic importance of this dynamic economic area to the USA mean that the Asia Pacific will remain crucially important to policymakers and scholars alike. The unifying theme of the series is a desire to publish the best theoretically informed, original research on the region. Titles in the series cover the politics, economics, and security of the region, as well as focus on its institutional processes, individual countries, issues, and leaders. Titles include: Stephen Aris EURASIAN REGIONALISM The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Toby Carroll DELUSIONS OF DEVELOPMENT The World Bank and the Post-Washington Consensus in Southeast Asia Aurel Croissant and Marco Bunte (editors) THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Shahar Hameiri REGULATING STATEHOOD State Building and the Transformation of the Global Order Lee Jones ASEAN, SOVEREIGNTY AND INTERVENTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Hiro Katsumata ASEAN’S COOPERATIVE SECURITY ENTERPRISE Norms and Interests in a Regional Forum Erik Paul OBSTACLES TO DEMOCRATIZATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA A Study of the Nation State, Regional and Global Order Joel Rathus JAPAN, CHINA AND NETWORKED REGIONALISM IN EAST ASIA Barry Wain MALAYSIAN MAVERICK Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times

Mikael Weissmann THE EAST ASIAN PEACE Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding Robert G. Wirsing and Ehsan Ahrari (editors) FIXING FRACTURED NATIONS The Challenge of Ethnic Separatism in the Asia-Pacific

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The East Asian Peace Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding Mikael Weissmann Research Fellow, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden

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