The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula: An Emerging Security Architecture

• Editor : Shin-wha Lee, Jagannath Panda
• Publisher : Routledge
• Date : August 18, 2023
• ISBN : 9781032460680

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific, and Korean Peninsula focus on the U.N. and the U.N. system to look at the politics of the world’s most politically sensitive and important regions, including the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific region, at geopolitical and geopolitical levels.

This paper aims to provide answers to comprehensive questions related to the emerging global peace structure, which consists of parts from the world, including the global dimension, the Indo-Pacific region, and the Korean Peninsula. The first part on the global dimension analyzes the competing worldviews of the United States, China, Japan, and Korea, and examines the transition of discussions at the United Nations on global and regional security, especially in the Indo-Pacific region and the Korean Peninsula. The second part on the Indo-Pacific region, which follows these themes, analyzes bilateral or multilateral security issues facing regional countries and analyzes discussions at the United Nations on these issues. Specifically, the chapters in the second part look at the impact of new changes in the region, such as the expansion of the Quad and G7 between Australia, India, Japan and the United States, on the politics of great powers within the Indo-Pacific region. Finally, the third part on the Korean Peninsula focuses on UN-centered discussions on inter-Korean relations and analyzes the consequent global or regional implications.

Introduction: Can the Declining Relevance of the UN be Reinvigorated? Factoring the Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula by Shin-wha Lee and Jagannath Panda

Part-I: The UN and Competing Worldviews
1. US-China Strategic Competition in UN Multilateral Frameworks: Building Order or Inviting Conflict? by Jae Jeok Park and Shin-wha Lee
2. The United Nations in Korea: US Views of Once and Future Roles by Mark Tokola
3. Legitimacy, Power and Order-Building in the Indo-Pacific: China, the UN, and Managing the North Korean Nuclear Challenge by Jindong Yuan
4. Role of the United Nations in Japanese Foreign Policy and Security Architecture by Kristi Govella
5. The United Nations, Korean Foreign Policy and the Korean Peninsula, by Heung Soon Park

Part-II: The UN and the Indo-Pacific Security Architecture
6. China, UNCLOS and the Future of International Maritime Law in the South China Sea by Jeffrey Becker
7. Opportunities for Consensus, Collaboration and Recalibration: UN and the Quad by Jagannath Panda
8. Does Humanitarian Aid Save Civilian Lives in War?　The Case of UN Aid in Myanmar’s Civil War by Hyun Jin Choi and Taekyoon Kim
9. The United Nations and the Curious Case of Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute by Priyanka Pandit

Part-III: The UN, its Frameworks and Korean Peninsula
10. Northeast Asian Peace Architecture and the UN by Matthew Abbott
11. Change in the Security Environment and Transformation of the United Nations Command by Hanbyeol Sohn and Hanbeom Jeong
12. The Past, Present and Future of SDGs Discussion on the Korean Peninsula: SDGs as a Framework for New Cooperation by Kyungyon Moon and Dong-ju Choi
13. A Case Study on the Success and Failure of Weapons of Mass Destruction Nonproliferation Regimes: Focus on Chemical Weapons and Biological Weapons Conventions by Ki-Chul Park and Jaewoo Choo
14. Improving State Reputation through the UN: The Case of North Korea by DongJoon Park and Kyung-joo Jeon