Charting America’s Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security

日期： 2024/06/24

時間： 15:00~17:00

地點： 檔案館第二會議室

主持人： 巫仁恕教授（中研院近史所研究員兼副所長）

主講人：陳冠任教授（本所助研究員）

與談人： 柯尚哲Covell F. Meyskens教授 (Associate Professor, National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School)

主辦單位： 近史所

Abstract：
Shifting the focus from land to sea when considering the Cold War in East Asia, Kuan-Jen Chen sheds light on the importance of the 'oceanic' lens as a structural imperative in grand strategic thinking. Despite extensive scholarship on postwar US-East Asia relations, questions about the relationship between maritime space, national sovereignty, and geopolitics have not been fully explored. Drawing on archives in Chinese, English, and Japanese, Chen uses the western Pacific as a historical platform, illustrating the relationship between the geopolitical value of the sea and the strategic deliberations of American and East-Asian decision making. The recent deterioration of US-China relations has turned maritime East Asia into a powder keg, with no country in the region able to remain neutral. By anchoring today's maritime East Asia in the past, this book traces the evolution of historical factors that led to the current status quo in the western Pacific, and shows the origins of controversial issues in the region.

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