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Global Asia Magazine - Winter 2015

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In this issue

In the cover package of Global Asia’s Summer 2011 edition, we explored the relationship between Asia’s many decades of peace and its much-heralded economic prosperity, and asked, will this last? In this edition of the journal, we revisit the topic of East Asia’s so-called Long Peace, but this time from a much deeper and broader perspective, based on a five-year research project carried out at Uppsala University in Sweden and funded by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Over the years from 1839 to 1979, East Asia experienced some of the world’s bloodiest wars. Even during the Cold War, East Asia suffered 80 percent of all global battle deaths. But then, that long period of conflict was followed by a period of peace that has lasted now for three-and-a-half decades. Given that remarkable hiatus from armed conflict among nations, scholars have pondered the factors that have underpinned this peace and whether there are lessons to be learned for other parts of the world.

Global Asia Magazine Description:

Publisher: East-Asia-Foundation

Category: Politics

Language: English

Frequency: Quarterly

Global Asia is a quarterly publication of the East Asia Foundation. The foundation, established in Seoul in January 2005, strives to promote peace, prosperity, security and sustainability in East Asia by creating an open and creative forum for the exchange of ideas on regional co-operation and integration, among other goals.

The mission we have set for ourselves with Global Asia is both bold and urgent: It is to provide a compelling, serious, and responsible forum for distinguished thinkers, policymakers, political leaders and business people to debate the most important issues in Asia today.

Global Asia is not a journal with a fixed point of view, or a particular agenda. Our aim is to give voice to the global dimension of what is happening in Asia. In our pages and on our web site, we aim for Asia to speak to the world, and the world to Asia. That is important at a time when this region is playing an ever greater role in world affairs.

There are other fine publications on international affairs. What sets us apart is our focus: Asia. We believe that the world is moving into “the Age of Asia,” to borrow a phrase from one of the articles in the inaugural issue of Global Asia in September 2006. This transformation is not going to occur overnight, but it has already begun.

The region’s dynamic economic growth, stable and accountable political systems, maturing democracies, and evolving sense of community are giving Asia greater weight in the world. These developments will have enormous implications for governments, businesses, societies and individuals across the globe. How that transformation is viewed, and shaped, from within Asia and how it is perceived outside Asia is an essential part of the story we have to tell.

The forces of globalization are having a profound impact throughout the world. And they are being influenced and channeled in different ways in different parts of the world. Ours is the story of Asia’s experience with globalization, and the ideas and debates influencing it. In pursuing our mission, we aim to play a part, however modest, in helping to shape the future of Asia.