Accession Number:

ADA288863

Title:

Northeast Asian Confidence Building Measures (CBMs): From A Regional Context to the Environmental Frontier.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. May-Sep 94,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS

Personal Author(s):

• Olsen, Edward A.

Report Date:

1994-10-31

Pagination or Media Count:

159.0

Abstract:

This study examines the generic roles of Confidence Building Measures CBMs in post-cold war Northeast Asia and the specific functions of economic and environmental CBMs. Special attention is paid to the domestic roots of these CBMs in Japan, South Korea ROK, and North Korea DPRK, and their impact on each countrys policies regionally. Environmental CBMs are evolving within the context of strategic and economic CBMs in Northeast Asia, but they possess unique characteristics on the governmental and non-governmental organization NGO levels. The importance of environmental CBMs in the post-cold war era are described and contrasted in this report and their efficacy is evaluated as instruments to reduce regional tensions.

Descriptors:

• *GEOPOLITICS
• *NORTHEAST ASIA
• NORTH KOREA
• POLICIES
• STRATEGY
• INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
• ECONOMICS
• THREATS
• POLITICAL ALLIANCES
• JAPAN
• COLD WAR
• CONFLICT
• INTERNATIONAL TRADE
• INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• SOUTH KOREA

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science
• Economics and Cost Analysis
• Defense Systems
• Administration and Management

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE