2013년 제2차 HK 워크솝

 - 시간: 2013년 4월 15일 오후 4시-6시

 - 장소: 아세아문제연구소 대회의실

1. 손기영(아세아문제연구소 HK연구교수)

Japan’s Recalibration of Risk and the Framing of Okinawa as a Maritime “Great Wall” against China: The Role of State, Market, and Society Actors

Son Key-young and Ra Mason

(요약문)

For the past sixty years Okinawa has been exposed to a shifting set of risks associated with its hosting of United States (US) military bases and the contingent deployment of personnel and stationing of equipment. In addition, the Ryukyu island chain’s precarious position and contested utilization has been brought to the fore by multilateral posturing over the sovereignty of a set of its many outlying rocks; contended between China, Japan and Taiwan – all lay claim to the, so called, Senkaku (aka, Diaoyu or Pinnacle Islands), which lie off Okinawan shores. The U.S. Marines stationed on Okinawa could potentially be those to be sent to the Senkakus, in the unlikely event they were seized by China. Indeed, U.S. and Japanese forces have conducted a series of operations with the scenario of retaking the islands from China, if it were forcibly occupied by forces from the PRC. Increasingly, the Ryukyu island chain is emerging as a “a giant maritime Great Wall intervening between it and the Pacific Ocean.” How this and the on-going base relocation issues have seen the responsibility for risk shifted from external (US) to state (Japan), and then on to sub-national actors is elucidated through a case study analysis of the stakeholders who have suffered the greatest harms as a result, such as the residents of Ginowan City protesting the recent deployment of the Ospreys at the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, women raped by US servicemen and the local marine ecosystem crushed under base construction. The interplay between the central government’s successful co-opting of the localities, such as Yonaguni, and the lingering anti-base sentiment and sporadic protests further complicates the process of risk mediation.

2. 이동준(아세아문제연구소 HK연구교수)

제목: Balancing Statecraft and Regional Stability: Focusing on the Northeast Asian Alliance Politics during the Cold War

(요약문)

My presentation purports to address two questions. The first is about the role that alliances played in Northeast Asia during the Cold War. How did alliances affect the Cold War in Northeast Asia? Did alliances in Northeast Asia contribute to the regional stability or to the escalation of the Cold War? The second question concerns the implications of alliance politics in Northeast Asia for Balance of Power (Bop) theory. BoP theory, arguably one of the most well-known and influential theories explaining alliance politics, has been under serious scrutiny since the Cold War, and its internal and external validity has become a target of intensive debate. In short, my presentation attempts to examine the extent to which BoP theory explains alliance politics in Northeast Asian Cold War and to determine what the empirical analysis of the alliance politics indicates for the limitations and refinements of the theory. In addressing the questions stated above, I will focus on five bilateral alliances and one strategic relations in Northeast Asia during the Cold War—the Sino-Soviet alliance, the U.S.-Japan alliance, the U.S.-South Korean alliance, North Korea’s alliances with the Soviet Union and China, and Sino-American relations.