Advanced Networks in view of International Relations (BoF) - Case: Hub of AN in Northeast Asia The 16 th APAN/ANC August 27, Busan Marriott Hang Ryeol Na, KISDI

CJK China, Japan and Korea – international cooperation APII, TEIN, etc. – competition To be a hub – A single hub or joint hubs?

Advanced Networks International cooperation –Liberalism states can cooperate together through institutional mechanisms and bargaining that undermine the propensity to base interests simply in military terms. States are interdependent and other actors such as Transnational Corporations, the IMF and the United Nations play a role. competition – realism basic motive driving states is survival or the maintenance of sovereignty; states are instrumentally rational and think strategically about how to survive. A single hub or joint hubs? –Hegemonic Stability theory stability of the international system requires a single dominant state to articulate and enforce the rules of interaction among the most important members of the system

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