Sixty Years After the San Francisco Treaty: Its Legacy on Territorial and Security Issues in East Asia

• Published in: Asian perspective Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 309 - 314
• Main Author: Bong, Youngshik D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Seoul The Institue for Far Eastern Studies 01-07-2011; Johns Hopkins University Press; 극동문제연구소
• Subjects: Alliances; Cooperation; East Asia; Far East; Geopolitics; Institutionalism; International cooperation; International relations; Japanese culture; Legacies; Peace; Peace treaties; Reconciliation; Regional Security; San Francisco, California; Securities issues; Security; Sovereignty; Territorial disputes; Territorial issues; Territories; Territory; The San Francisco System Revisited—Part 1; Threat; Treaties; U.S.A; 정치외교학
• ISSN: 0258-9184; 2288-2871; 2288-2871
• DOI: 10.1353/apr.2011.0000

The three articles that follow use the insights of historical institutional ism to analyze the complex nature of the 1952 San Francisco Peace Treaty and examine its legacy for East Asian regional security. The perceived and actual imbalance between the capacity of regional security arrangements and the growing challenges of new threats has prompted calls for a new "San Francisco system." Identifying the historical roots that have hampered the adaptive transformation of the San Francisco system is a sensible basis for research in search of alternatives, as the three articles on the subject richly and persuasively illustrate.