The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula: An Emerging Security Architecture [Paperback]

Introduction: Can the Declining Relevance of the UN be Reinvigorated? Factoring the Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula Part-I: The UN and Competing Worldviews 1. US-China Strategic Competition in UN Multilateral Frameworks: Building Order or Inviting Conflict?; 2. The United Nations in Korea: US Views of Once and Future Roles; 3. Legitimacy, Power and Order-Building in the Indo-Pacific: China, the UN, and Managing the North Korean Nuclear Challenge; 4. Role of the United Nations in Japanese Foreign Policy and Security Architecture; 5. The United Nations, Korean Foreign Policy and the Korean Peninsula Part-II: The UN and the Indo-Pacific Security Architecture 6. China, UNCLOS and the Future of International Maritime Law in the South China Sea; 7. Opportunities for Consensus, Collaboration and Recalibration: UN and the Quad; 8. Does Humanitarian Aid Save Civilian Lives in War? The Case of UN Aid in Myanmars Civil War; 9. The United Nations and the Curious Case of Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute Part-III: The UN, its Frameworks and Korean Peninsula 10. Northeast Asian Peace Architecture and the UN; 11. Change in the Security Environment and Transformation of the United Nations Command; 12. The Past, Present and Future of SDGs Discussion on the Korean Peninsula: SDGs as a Framework for New Cooperation; 13. A Case Study on the Success and Failure of Weapons of Mass Destruction Nonproliferation Regimes: Focus on Chemical Weapons and Biological Weapons Conventions; 14. Improving State Reputation through the UN: The Case of North Korea