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Podcast: New Books in Political Science
Episode: Yong-Shik Lee, "Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia" (Anthem Press, 2023)
Description: In the long run, countries in Northeast Asia will have to see the need for collective defense. Otherwise, you won’t be able to stop rivalry between powers like the U.S. and China. It sounds utopian now, but so did the idea of French and German soldiers serving under the same command a century ago.                                                                     – Y.S. Lee, NBN Interview (2025)
Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia (Anthem Press, 2023) examines the enduring political and military tensions in one of the world’s most dynamic yet unstable regions, from China and the Korean Peninsula to Japan, Mongolia, and Russia’s Far East. Despite its economic vitality, Northeast Asia remains frau...