동북아시아 지역공동체 건설과 '협력적 안보동맹 복합체' = Establishing the Northeast Asian Security Community and 'Cooperative-Alliance Security Complex'

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The end of the Cold War has brought profound changes to the nature of the terms of national security, the characteristics of international relations, as well as the fundamental structure of the international system. These changes not only affect the international system, but also individual countries as well as the regional community. Thus, prompting states to cope with these changes by adjusting to the expanding dimensions of national security and the growing number of international security actors, as well as dealing with these security concerns by developing an adequate international structure. Due to the expansion of the nature of issues involved, as well as the proliferating areas of interests in international security studies, this study argues that these conditions can be better explained by focusing on the regional system as opposed to dealing with the security issues from a global international system perspective as was the case throughout the Cold War. This study aims to assess the feasibility and the possibility of building a regional security community in Northeast Asia, a region that is falling behind the international trend of regional security building.
In analyzing the Northeast Asia, this study first focuses on the regional security "complex," which is based on geographical proximity, Barry Buzan said, rather than the more comprehensive "community," because it captures the regional exclusivity as well as its particular traits and needs in a more efficient manner. Second, this paper will examine the several security systems such as hegemonic system, alliance system, concert system, collective security system, and cooperative security system in order to come to a more focused and coherent explanation of the situation in Northeast Asia. And third, this study draws the concept of 'cooperative-alliance security complex' which an alliance is a basic member of community, as the best way to manage the diverse security dilemmas and to ensure the peaceful changes in the Northeast Asian region.