(Opinion) How to Solve Northeast Asia’s Security Dilemma
2017-03-25 08:27:02 source:IPP Review
March 24, 2017
"If we have a chance to choose a word to describe the chaos in Northeast Asia, I guess most of us would select the word 'dilemma.' The reason is that no effective solutions have been found to help the states break their security deadlock. To be precise, the stakeholders in Northeast Asia have not reached useful agreements to mitigate the present intense situation. As a result, all the states are committed to enhancing their strategic advantages by modernizing their militaries, and coordinating their defence policies and security cooperation with their allies or partners inside and outside the region, resulting in a stalemate in the region.
Such a scenario is quite similar to the security dilemma in international relations theory, in which every state tries to strengthen its military capabilities to enhance its national security. However, such behavior will reduce the security of other countries, especially neighboring countries, and will thus trigger similar actions in these states. In order to help states get out of the security dilemma, experts have proposed various instruments aimed at promoting security cooperation between countries under the security dilemma, such as signing bilateral and multilateral agreements and holding bilateral and multilateral forums. Yet, when we review the security situation in Northeast Asia, we find that such policy tools are ineffective."
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