Annotation:
In the era of increasingly intense persistent confrontation between the U.S. and China, Asian countries are struggling to maintain a balance between the U.S. and China, but there are differences in their responses, which are related to various factors such as each country's threat perception, historical background, strategic culture, and trade relations. In this lecture, while paying attention to these complex factors, I will explain the territorial issues and security concerns that could be the ignition point for destabilization of regional security in the Asian region. To do so, I also offer occasions to view the trends and status of security strategies, alliance policies, and military force development of Japan, the United States, China, Taiwan, South Korea, North Korea, ASEAN countries, and Russia as the fundamental knowledge to understand regional security architecture. The ultimate purpose of the lecture is to provide a bird's eye view of the security environment in Asia and to promote understanding of the regional security dynamics.
In particular, Xi Jinping's promotion of the "making China a maritime power" concept has brought about increased opportunities to challenge the U.S. maritime hegemony in the Asia-Pacific. Due to the increasing of China's conventional forces and economic influence, and erosion of U.S. military presence and influence in the western Pacific cannot be denied, the U.S. Biden administration has strengthened the offshore balancing approach (with Quad, AUKUS, FOIP, etc.) that unites allied and like-minded countries, but as a result, Asian countries are increasingly being forced to choose between the U.S. side or Chinese one. I will also explain the importance of multipolarization of regional security through increased involvement of Europe (but note that the UK's involvement is following the US and less impact for multipolarization).
Though my lecture, I distribute not only basic knowledge and the latest information about actual security situation in Asia (about the U.S., China, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, ASEAN countries, and Russia as major players) but also current security development in Indo-Pacific theater to overview power shift and diversifying security approaches in the region with international relations (IR) theories. It will also help students to understand increasing commitment and involvement of European countries such as France, UK, Netherlands, and the EU to the Indo-Pacific and their expected roles.
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jakub Šindelář (01.02.2019)
Annotation
Trump’s ‘America First‘ policy makes security situation in the Far East region unpredictable and unstable. Many Asian countries puzzle over how to keep US commitment to the their security even though economic dependency on China has been increasing dramatically. In other words, they prefer securing national defense by ‘realistic military power’ to achieving regional stability by ‘neo-liberal interdependence or cooperation’.
Japanese Abe administration tries to apple-polish Trump in order to balance against PRC and secure its national defense with U.S. military presence including ‘nuclear umbrella’. ROC (Taiwan) not only seeks to increase self-reliance but also cooperation with USA to assure national defense in one hand. South Korea Moon administration makes efforts to improve relations with PRC, which was damaged due to ROK’s acceptance of American THAAD deployment on its soil to secure its security against DPRK. However it makes military cooperation between USA, Japan and ROK more difficult.
In the other hand, ‘rising China’ has become more assertive with its 600% increase in real-term defense spending over the past 20 years and its second aircraft carrier “Shandong” is under construction and they started constructing third one in Dalian, too. China increases its self-confidence about military capability and numerical superiority over coastal area of China including South China Sea, which should be a sanctuary for Chinese strategic submarines. DPRK continuously makes efforts to develop several type of ballistic missile with new liquid fuel rocket engine and nuclear armament to secure its existence.
Though my lecture, I distribute not only basic knowledge and the latest information about security situation in Far East Asia (China, Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan) but also interactions of them with aspects of neoclassical realism, especially analysis on actors within each countries, and meaning of US military presence in the region. It will help students to understand current security situation in the region and to recognize that stability of the region depends on American military presence and naïve security balance.
Literatura -
Poslední úprava: PhDr. Lucie Jůzová (27.01.2022)
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jakub Šindelář (01.02.2019)
Reference Books:
Perry, Charles M. and Yoshihara Toshi.:
U.S-Japan Alliance: Preparing for Korean Reconciliation and Beyond, 2003
Cooney, Kevin and Sato Yoichiro.: The Rise of China and International Security:
America and East Asia Respond to the Rising Power, 2007
Ford, Glyn and Kwon Soyoung.: North Korea on the Brink: Struggle for Survival, 2007
Friedman, Edward.: China’s rise, Taiwan’s dilemmas, and international peace, 2005
Kim, Samuel S.: The two Korea and the great powers, 2006
Lim, Louisa.: The People’s Republic of Amnesia, 2014
Tow, William, Stuart, Douglas and Jimbo Ken.: The New US Strategy towards Asia: Adapting to the American Pivot, 2015