Regional Cooperation for Peace and Development
Faced with significant security challenges, in recent years Japan and South Korea have both sought to raise their international profile through peacebuilding, development, humanitarian assistance, and human security. This book assesses the past, present, and future potential of these niche diplomacy initiatives undertaken by Japan and South Korea, largely in Southeast Asia. The book concludes that not only do such nontraditional security channels have the potential to achieve meaningful change for partners and beneficiaries, but they could also form the basis of future confidence-building and security cooperation between Japan and South Korea, which have to date achieved little in the field of traditional security cooperation, despite facing many shared challenges.
Working across disciplines and national boundaries, the contributors to this volume argue that policy prioritization in the fields of peacebuilding, development, and human security by Tokyo and Seoul could have the potential to accrue wider benefits not only to the Northeast Asian actors and the Southeast Asian partners, but also to wider regional and even global security communities. At a time when the role of so-called middle powers is receiving increasing levels of attention both domestically and internationally, this book will be of considerable interest to scholars of Japan and the ROK, as well as development, security, and foreign policy researchers more broadly.
Brendan Howe is Associate Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies, and Director of the Institute for International Trade and Cooperation, at Ewha Womans University, South Korea.
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Contents
BRENDAN HOWE
SACHIKO ISHIKAWA AND BRENDAN HOWE
SUYOUN JANG
AKO MUTO AND SACHIKO ISHIKAWA
EUN MEE KIM, BRENDAN HOWE, SEON YOUNG BAE, AND JI HYUN SHIN
BRENDAN HOWE
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The editor would like to express sincere gratitude to Sung Chull Kim, editor of the Asian Journal of Peacebuilding for permission to draw upon the article Koreas Role for Peacebuilding and Development in Asia, which forms the inspiration for this volume, as well as a significant component of . He is also very grateful to the anonymous reviewers and the Routledge editorial team for their constructive input and support.
This volume grew out of papers presented at the Development Studies Association annual conference DSA2017: Sustainability Interrogated: Societies, Growth, and Social Justice at the University of Bradford, September 68, 2017. The authors are grateful, therefore, to the funding bodies which supported them in conducting related research and to take part in the conference: Ewha Womans University, JICA-RI, SIPRI, and the Policy-Oriented Research Grant Program through the Korea Foundation.
Seon Young Bae graduated with a masters degree in development cooperation from the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University. She is currently working as the Communications Officer in the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the South Korean office.
Brendan Howe is Associate Dean and Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University. He has honorary advisory roles at both the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has ongoing research agendas focusing on traditional and nontraditional security policy-making in East Asia; human security; post-crisis development; democratic governance; and public diplomacy. Major recent works include National Security, Statecentricity and Governance in East Asia (Springer, 2017); Peacekeeping and the Asia-Pacific (Brill, 2016); Democratic Governance in Northeast Asia (Springer, 2015); Post-Conflict Development in East Asia (Taylor & Francis, 2014); and The Protection and Promotion of Human Security in East Asia (Palgrave, 2013).
Sachiko Ishikawa is Senior Advisor on Peacebuilding and SouthSouth Cooperation for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). She previously worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and served as Regional Project Formulation Advisor at both the JICA Thailand Office and JICA Malaysia Office. Her current research interests are on Japans peace-building in Asia, human security in Southeast Asia, and SouthSouth cooperation in ASEAN. She received her PhD from Malaysia Science University in 2013.
Suyoun Jang is a Researcher with the Peace and Development cluster of studies, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden. She has been seconded to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as Technical Adviser to support the Praia Group on Governance Statistics in Praia, Cape Verde. Her current research is on sustainable development goal (SDG) indicators, the development-humanitarian-peace nexus, and development policies toward conflict-affected fragile states. Recent publications include Development in Dangerous Places in the SIPRI Yearbook 2016 , Measuring Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in the New SDG Framework in the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (2016, co-author), and Development and Security in International Aid to North Korea: Commonalities and Differences among the European Union, the United States and South Korea in The Pacific Review (2017, co-author).
Eun Mee Kim is both Dean of and Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Director of the Institute for Development and Human Security, and Director of the Ewha Global Health Institute for Girls at Ewha Womans University. She served as President of the Korea Association of International Development and Cooperation (20112012) and was a Member of the Board of Samsung Electronics (20132016), the Committee for International Development Cooperation (Prime Ministers Office), and the Policy Advisory Committees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. She received the first research grant to a university in South Korea from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for Advocacy for Korean Engagement in Global Health and Development (20132016), and for Korea Global Health Strategy (20162019).
