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

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula focuses on the United Nations (UN) and its frameworks to examine the power politics on the two of the world’s more politically sensitive and geo-strategically crucial regions of the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific.

This book provides answers to broader questions that are relevant to the global emerging peace architecture. The book is divided into three parts: global, Indo-Pacific and the Korean Peninsula. The first part analyses the competing world views of the U.S, China, Japan, and Korea and the evolvement of UN debates on global and regional security, with special emphasis on the Indo-Pacific and the Korean Peninsula. The second part concerns major bilateral or multilateral security issues facing Indo-Pacific countries and their UN debates in this regard. In particular, with new developments in the Indo-Pacific, such as the Quad process involving the Australia-India-Japan-United States and an anticipation expansion of the Group of Seven (G-7), chapters analyse how these mechanisms expand their focus within the scope of Indo-Pacific power politics. Part three focuses on the UN centered debates on two Koreas and their strategic fallouts at regional and global levels.

Examining the security order evolving around the politics of the Indo-Pacific regions and Korean Peninsula and analysing the relevance of the UN and its mechanisms, this book will be of interest to researchers studying International Relations, Security Studies, Asian Studies, in particular Korean Studies and the Indo-Pacific.

Shin-wha Lee is Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Director of Peace and Democracy Institute, Korea University and President of the Korean Academic Council on the UN System. She has published numerous articles and books, covering issues of global security including non-traditional security, international organisations, East Asian foreign policy and security cooperation.

Jagannath P. Panda is Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), Stockholm, Sweden. and Senior Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, The Netherlands. He is also Director for Europe-Asia Research Cooperation at the Yokosuka Council of Asia-Pacific Studies, Japan. Dr. Panda is the author of the book India-China Relations (2017) and editor of Quad Plus and Indo-Pacific (2021), The Korean Peninsula and Indo-Pacific Power Politics: Status Security at Stake (2020), The Future of Korean Peninsula: Korea 2032 and Beyond (2021) and India-Japan-ASEAN Triangularity (2022), all published by Routledge. He is also Editor of the series Routledge Studies on Think Asia.