Regional System: Bilateral Relations in NEA

Question 1

What is ‘Regional security complex theory’?

Answer 1

A theory advanced by Barry Buzan and Ole Waever in 2003

A concept that security concerns are clustered into geographically shaped regions, and insecurity is associated with the spatial, positional or ideational difference of neighbours

Question 2

What is ‘Securitization’?

Answer 2

A process of politicisation which transforms matters into a security concern and existential threat for the benefit of the respective actor and legitimizing action.

Question 3

Example of a IDEATIONAL regional security complex?

Answer 3

China V Taiwan

Core ideological engagement over who is ‘China’

Question 4

Another example of an IDEATIONAL regional security complex?

Answer 4

Inter-Korean Relations

Communist N. V Democratic S. over the most heavily guarded border in the world

Question 5

Example of a POSITIONAL/SPATIAL regional security complex

Answer 5

China V Japan

Both strong military powers with evidence of posturing e.g. Daioyu/Senkaku Islands

Question 6

Why is the China V Japan dyad not particularly ideological?

Answer 6

Diplomatic standing is cordial

October 2018 Shinzo Abe visit to mark 40yrs of Treaty of Peace and Friendship

No hostile foreign policy against one-another