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Recasting 'Nuclear-Free Korean Peninsula' as a Sino-American language for co-ordination

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posted on 2014-09-17, 14:14 authored by Taku TamakiTaku Tamaki
A series of Six-Party Talks involving the United States, China, Japan, South and North Koreas, and Russia resulted in the emergence of a narrative of ‘nuclear-free Korean Peninsula’. Given the prevalence of nuclear weapons amidst Sino-American rivalry, the area is hardly ‘nuclear-free’. Instead, the phrase has evolved into a convenient language for the US and China to signal to each other that there is a coincidence of wants in preserving the multilateral framework despite the Realpolitik dynamics. This article provides a Constructivist perspective to this particular aspect of Sino-American balance of power by taking the language of ‘nuclear-free’ seriously, recasting the narrative as a shared signifier for the US and China to co-ordinate their language despite the lingering bilateral rivalry.

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  • Business and Economics

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  • Business

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JAPANESE JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Volume

13

Pages

59 - 81 (23)

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TAMAKI, T., 2012. Recasting 'Nuclear-Free Korean Peninsula' as a Sino-American language for co-ordination. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 13 (1), pp.59-81.

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© Cambridge University Press

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2012

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1468-1099

Language

  • en

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