Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, January 1st, 2001
Daojiong Zha [*]
In modern East Asia, the pursuit of security is a particularly problematic enterprise. Until the European "explorers" reached the Asian shores, the ideas/principles of "nation-state" and "international relations"-as was enshrined in the Treaty of Westphalia were alien to the rulers of Asian empires. Subsequent European and North American contacts with East Asia led to colonization by, first, Western and, later, Japanese militaries. The end of World War II in Asia not only put an end to colonization, it began an unprecedented historical era in which East Asian polities start...
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