Political Rivals and Regional Leaders: Dual Identities and Sino-Japanese Relations within East Asian Cooperation
- Authors
- Park, Jinsoo
- Issue Date
- 2013
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PRESS
- Citation
- CHINESE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, v.6, no.1, pp.85 - 107
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- CHINESE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
- Volume
- 6
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 85
- End Page
- 107
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/106621
- DOI
- 10.1093/cjip/pot001
- ISSN
- 1750-8916
- Abstract
- This article argues that the dual identities of political rivals and regional leaders have been of critical importance in determining China and Japan's regional policies and their bilateral relations within East Asian cooperation. China and Japan, in identifying each other as political rivals rather than cooperative partners, have defined their interests in regional cooperative projects, particularly those led by the other party, in terms of power politics. At the same time, China and Japan's efforts to gain followers' acceptance of their aspired leadership identities have shaped their regional policy options and behaviours. The combination effects of these dual identities have produced variances in China and Japan's regional policies and their bilateral relations within East Asian financial and institutional cooperation. Particularly with regards to regional projects led by the other party and supported by a majority of followers, China and Japan cooperated with the intention of neutralizing the other's dominance in the region and to demonstrate the responsibilities one should assume as aspirant regional leader. China or Japan opposed, in terms of power politics, cooperative projects the other party initiated that did not secure majority support among followers, instead promoting their own initiatives to expand followers' acceptance of their leadership.
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