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East Asia is a promising setting for testing and refining IR theories, and the decade of the 2000s is an ideal time to do so. Although prior to developments in the 2010s interest in the significance of East Asia for IR theory was surprisingly limited, during the 2000s it was already leading a transition away from the order many had assumed was replacing the Cold War toward a new regional order. Within the region, bilateral relations are of particular interest for grasping the changes under way. Focusing on three of them, this chapter raises fundamental questions about the prevailing IR theory.
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He, Y. (2015). IR Theory and Bilateral Relations among China, Japan, and South Korea in the 2000s. In: Rozman, G. (eds) Misunderstanding Asia. International Relations and Comparisons in Northeast Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137506726_9
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