These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia Bukh Alexander
These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia Bukh Alexander Territorial disputes are one of the main sources of tension in Northeast Asia. While that's…
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These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia Bukh Alexander
Territorial disputes are one of the main sources of tension in Northeast Asia. While that's frequently not true in economic, military, or political terms, citizens' groups and other domestic actors throughout the region have mounted sustained campaigns to protect or recover the disputed islands. Escalation in such conflicts often stems from a widely shared public perception that the territory in question is of the utmost importance to the nation.
Focusing on non-state actors rather than political elites, Alexander Bukh explains how and why apparently inconsequential territories become central to national discourse in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Quite often, these campaigns have wide-ranging domestic and international consequences.Why and how do territorial disputes that at one point mattered little, become salient? These Islands Are Ours challenges the conventional