The Multilateralization of Regional Security in Southeast and Northeast Asia: The Role of the Soviet Union

Abstract

This paper attempts to sketch the architectural structure of the regional security systems of Northeast and Southeast Asia and to define the roles currently played by the Soviet Union within them. These regions will be viewed from two contrasting perspectives. On the one hand, each will be treated as a separate system, with its own particular security problems, rivalries, and dynamics. The overall conclusion to be drawn from this level of analysis is that no one or even two states, through collision or collusion, is capable of defining the overall security regimes of these regions. Regional powers, great or small (including insurgents like the Khmer Rouge), have the resources and will to veto unilateral coercive attempts, characteristic of Cold War politics, to dictate how these security systems should be organized or whose strategic, political, or economic preferences should prevail.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA254338

Entities

People

  • Edward A. Kolodziej

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Arms Control
  • Asia
  • Civil War
  • Cold War
  • Economic Systems
  • Far East
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • National Politics
  • Political Systems
  • South Asia
  • Southeast Asia
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • United States Pacific Command

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union