East Asian Peace

MIKAEL WEISSMANN is Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also a Research Associate at the East Asian Peace program at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Warwick, UK, as well as Peking, Renmin, and China Foreign Affairs University, China. He has done extensive fieldwork in East Asia and has published on conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the East Asian region.

• PART I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK The Paradox of the East Asian Peace PART II: CASE STUDIES Mainland China – Taiwan Relations and the Taiwan Issue The South China Sea and Sino-ASEAN Relations The Korean Nuclear Conflict PART III: CONCLUSIONS Conclusion: Understanding the East Asian Peace