Title: Sustainability in the Asian Pacific Region: Integration as the Tool of Ensuring Security
Stream: Social Sustainability/War and Peace
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Marina Sholkova, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry, Russia
Abstract:
The paper determines the link between the integration system and sustainability in the Asian Pacific region by evaluating the ongoing arms race and examining regional conflicts and disputes in the XXI century. Analysis of international political situation in the APR have shown essential complex challenges of ensuring security in the region bound to its specificity: (1) the APR unites heterogeneous countries separated by sea; (2) crossing interests of major political actors (the USA, Russia, China, Japan, India); (3) the unprecedented number of regional economic and political organizations. The paper concludes that: (1) the majority of the APR integration associations are aimed at providing economic stability; solving territorial conflicts and maritime disputes; denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula; effectively combating the global threats, such as terrorism and cyber-terrorism, ecocatastrophes, the scarcity of resources; (2) the complicated nature of interstate relationships and interactions of different regional organizations prevents a serious escalation of conflicts but does not allow to establish a sustainable atmosphere in the APR. Finally, based on evaluation of theoretical approaches in the regional security system the ASEAN Regional Forum is acknowledged to be the major organization in terms of its practical input to create a sustainable environment in the APR.
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