Long Peace of East Asia
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Annual Battle Deaths
ASEAN Approach
ASEAN Charter
ASEAN Country
ASEAN Declaration
ASEAN diplomacy
asian
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Battle Deaths
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Cold War Proxy Wars
conflict
conflict resolution
deaths
developmental peace
Developmentalist Identity
East Asian Approach
East Asian Conflict
East Asian conflict prevention strategies
East Asian Peace
Energy Resources
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Intensive Conflicts
international relations theory
Malaysian Confrontation
Militarized Interstate Disputes
Military Non-interference
Moro Islamic Liberation Front
Moro National Liberation Front
non-intervention policy
Post-1979 East Asia
PRIO Data
PRIO Dataset
Quarterly Chronicle
regional security studies
Short Peace
Uppsala Data
Wilson III
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- ISBN 9781138246553
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The annual number of battle deaths from interstate and intra-state conflicts in East Asia has declined by 95% since 1979. During the past three decades, East Asia has been more peaceful than Europe, the Americas or any continent, in terms of battle deaths per capita. When generating theories on peace and war, studies almost never look at the experiences of East Asia. Yet the region by focusing on a commitment to development, is a social reality that is less paranoid, less militaristic and more cooperative. Since 1979 there has been a commonly accepted rule to keep domestic issues domestic so that external military interference, that often caused the majority of battle deaths, was not needed. Thus the emergence of the long peace of East Asia is historically specific, and cannot be generalized by studying objective, material conditions independent of common perceptions and common interpretations. This does not mean that the East Asian experience is not relevant for other regions in the world, but that generalizations should not be attempted to be drawn from the material conditions, but rather from the lived experience and socially constructed realities of East Asia. Since East Asia is a spectacular case of pacification, and since it has not contributed much to our theories of peace and conflict, The Long Peace of East Asia is an important book for studies on peace and war.
Timo Kivimäki is Professor of international relations with particular expertise in peace and conflict studies at the University of Bath. Previously he has held professorships at the University of Helsinki, University of Lapland, and at the University of Copenhagen. Professor Kivimäki has also been director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Copenhagen) and the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Helsinki. In addition to purely academic work Professor Kivimäki has been a frequent consultant to the Finnish, Danish, Dutch, Russian, Malaysian, Indonesian and Swedish governments, as well as to several UN and EU organizations on conflict and terrorism. He was President Martti Ahtisaari’s (mediators) adviser in the Aceh peace talks, and the initiator of the West Kalimantan peace process, led by Indonesia’s Vice President, Jusuf Kalla. Dr Kivimäki’s book, Can Peace Research Make Peace? was published by Ashgate in 2012.
