Complexity Security and Civil Society in East Asia

Complexity Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex global problems in the region including nuclear weapons urban insecurity energy and climate change. Detailed case studies of China North and South Korea and Japan demonstrate the importance of civil society and 'civic diplomacy' in reaching shared solutions to these problems in East Asia and beyond.Each chapter describes regional civil society initiatives that tackle complex challenges to East Asia's security. In doing so the book identifies key pressure points at which civil society can push for constructive changes?especially ones that reduce the North Korean threat to its neighbors. Unusually this book is both theoretical and practical. Complexity Security and Civil Society in East Asia presents strategies that can be led by civil society and negotiated by its diplomats to realize peace security and sustainability worldwide. It shows that networked civic diplomacy offers solutions to these urgent issues that official 'complex diplomacy' cannot. By providing a new theoretical framework based on empirical observation this volume is a must read for diplomats scholars students journalists activists and individual readers seeking insight into how to solve the crucial issues of our time.