Identity, Trust, and Reconciliation in East Asia

1. Front Matter

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2. Trust, Identity and Conflict in Northeast Asia – Barriers to Positive Relationships

   • Kevin P Clements

   Pages 1-27

3. Identity, Threat Perception, and Trust-Building in Northeast Asia

   • Geun Lee

   Pages 29-46

4. Identity Tensions and China-Japan-Korea Relations: Can Peace be Maintained in North East Asia?

   • Rex Li

   Pages 47-73

5. Historical Analogy and Demonization of Others: Memories of 1930s Japanese Militarism and Its Contemporary Implications

   • Chung-in Moon, Seung-won Suh

   Pages 75-103

6. The “Abnormal” State: Identity, Norm/Exception and Japan

   • Linus Hagström

   Pages 105-137

7. Basic Human Needs: Identity and Intractable Conflict

   • Ajin Choi, Jihwan Hwang

   Pages 139-162

8. Historical Memory and Northeast Asian Regional Politics: from a Chinese Perspective

   • Xiaoming Zhang

   Pages 163-177

9. Towards True Independence: Abe Shinzo’s Nationalism

   • Masaru Tamamoto

   Pages 179-200

10. History, Politics, and Identity in Japan

    • Koichi Nakano

    Pages 201-222

11. Trust and Trust-Building in Northeast Asia: The Need for Empathy for Japan-ROK-China Security Cooperation – A Japanese Security Perspective

    • Yamaguchi Noboru, Sano Shutaro

    Pages 223-250

12. Japan’s Article 9 in the East Asian Peace

    • Stein Tønnesson

    Pages 251-270

13. Apology and Forgiveness in East Asia

    • Ria Shibata

    Pages 271-297

14. Back Matter

    Pages 299-302

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This edited collection explores how East Asia’s painful history continues to haunt the relationships between its countries and peoples. Through a largely social-psychological and constructivist lens, the authors examine the ways in which historical memory and unmet identity needs generates mutual suspicion, xenophobic nationalism and tensions in the bilateral and trilateral relationships within the region. This text not only addresses some of the domestic drivers of Japanese, Chinese and South Korean foreign policy - and the implications of increasingly autocratic rule in all three countries – but also analyses the way in which new security mechanisms and processes advancing trust, confidence and reconciliation can replace those generating mistrust, antagonism and insecurity. 

• Identity in East Asia
• Trust in East Asia
• Reconciliation in East Asia
• China
• Japan
• South Korea
• Historical Amnesia
• Thailand
• Obstacles to reconciliation
• Collective guilt
• Collective responsibility
• Trust building
• Northeast Asia
• Apology and Forgiveness

“The volume is an excellent starting point to understand the difficulties of reconciliation and closer collaboration in the region. With its well-rounded choice of authors and their empathetic efforts, combined with the very thoughtful and balanced summary by the editor, the book provides a valuable contribution not only to political and sociological practice, but to academic research as well.” (H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, January, 31 , 2019)

• National Centre for Peace & Conflict Stu, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

  Kevin P Clements

Professor Kevin Clements is the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the New Zealand National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association.

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