Overcoming Controversies in East Asia

Controversies, sometimes bitter controversies, are an inherent element of international relations. Conflicting interests, different values, overlapping spheres of influences... all this make dispute settlement mechanisms crucial elements of international system. Searching for cooperation mechanisms that may help in overcoming existing controversies in Asia is the main topic of this monograph. The monograph is based on the case studies in which authors analyse disagreements as well as collaborations between different actors in Asia. They are chosen different point of views that might be roughly divided into two groups. The first set of authors tries to look at regional or even internal problems that have international impact. The second group gives an outlook on the controversies linked to rising global presence of Asia n countries, in particular China.

Introduction 7 Internal and regional outlook 11 Dmitry V. Kuznetsov, The Chinese Nationalism and Foreign Policy Component in Mass Consciousness in China 13 Agnieszka Batko, Womenomics: The Assumptions and Effects of Abenomics’ Third Arrow 39 Karol Żakowski, Failed Attempts at Sino-Japanese Security Cooperation 55 Kahraman Süvari, North Korea’s Fourth Nuclear Test 71 Péter Klemensits, Defence Reform and Military Modernization in the Philippines in the perspective of the South China Sea Conflict 87 Global outlook 105 Dorota Roszkowska Emilia Matlaszek, Europe–China economic cooperation after official Belt and Road initiative announcement 107 Gu Hongfei, Opportunities Amidst Uncertainties. China–EU Security Cooperation in the context of the ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative 123 Lukáš Laš, Bridging the Visegrad Group and East Asia Through Cooperation 137 David A. Jones, Cooperation or Confrontation? Assessing the American ‘Pivot’ to Asia in Context – Is It a Western ‘Neo-Liberealism’ Response to China’s New ‘Open Door’ Approach to Europe? 155 Kamer Kasım, The impact of the US Rebalancing Policy toward Asia Pacific on International Relations in the region 175 Mateusz Smolaga, Asian Development Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – is cooperation possible? 191 Joanna Wardęga, Constructing a desired image of China: Picture of territorial controversies in Chinese language textbooks 215