East Asia's Other Miracle: Explaining the Decline of Mass AtrocitiesEast Asia, until recently a boiling pot of massacre and blood-letting, has achieved relative peace. A region that at the height of the Cold War had accounted for around eighty percent of the world's mass atrocities has experienced such a decline in violence that by 2015 it accounted for less than five percent. This book explains East Asia's 'other' miracle and asks whether it is merely a temporary blip in the historical cycle or the dawning of a new, and more peaceful, era for the region. It argues that the decline of mass atrocities in East Asia resulted from four interconnected factors: the |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Cataclysms | 14 |
Decline | 51 |
State Consolidation | 82 |
The Developmental Trading State | 115 |
Habits of Multilateralism | 146 |
Power Politics | 181 |
The Impossible State ́ ́ North Korea | 213 |
At the Crossroads Myanmar | 236 |
Future Trajectories | 267 |
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East Asia's Other Miracle: Explaining the Decline of Mass Atrocities Alex J. Bellamy Limited preview - 2017 |
East Asia's Other Miracle: Explaining the Decline of Mass Atrocities Alex J. Bellamy Limited preview - 2017 |