동북아의 불완전한 주권국가들과 복합적 무정부상태 = Incomplete sovereignty of Northeast Asian states, and complex anarchy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The nature of sovereignty and its possession constitute essential parts in theorizing modern international political relations. Mainstream international relations theory from the West assumes the existence of complete sovereign states equipped with legal sovereignty, territory and people under the organizing principle of anarchy. States act according to the principles of balance of power, security dilemma, cooperation, alliance, and power transition. However, the process of modern state formation in the non-Western regions is characterized by domination and distortion, which left the status of sovereignty in these regions highly incomplete. Complexity comes from the situation where incomplete sovereignty of these states are inextricably combined with Western countries’ complete sovereignty which empower them. How the interaction of these two groups are being unfolded and how the incompleteness of non-Western sovereignty remains intact is the core of modern international relations. His article suggests concepts such as incomplete sovereignty and complex anarchy as basic components of theorizing Northeast Asian international relations. Also it examines the recognition game among them as an empirical case.