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<p>This article critiques proposals for an “Asian NATO” by arguing that Northeast Asia lacks the historically legitimate common ground—reconciliation narratives, shared threat perceptions, and settled recognition politics—that NATO-style collective defence presupposes. It further shows how the revisionist/status quo binary operates as an ordering discourse that normalizes militarized alignment and narrows regional imaginaries. As an alternative, the article develops a Relational Security Community (RSC) framework that conceptualizes security as a historically grounded practice of relationship-building. RSC specifies three mechanisms—historical recognition, desecuritized connection, and multi-level relational governance—and illustrates them through three cases: the Shanghai–Taipei City Forum, China–ROK environmental cooperation, and transnational memory platforms. Across cases, the analysis focuses on relational durability: the survival, reactivation, and gradual thickening of interactional channels through episodes of re-securitization.</p>

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Beyond the Asian NATO: historical legacies, discursive binaries, and the possibility of a relational security community in Northeast Asia

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    2026年4月13日

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  • Yih-Jye Hwang,
  • Chih-yu Shih

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This article critiques proposals for an “Asian NATO” by arguing that Northeast Asia lacks the historically legitimate common ground—reconciliation narratives, shared threat perceptions, and settled recognition politics—that NATO-style collective defence presupposes. It further shows how the revisionist/status quo binary operates as an ordering discourse that normalizes militarized alignment and narrows regional imaginaries. As an alternative, the article develops a Relational Security Community (RSC) framework that conceptualizes security as a historically grounded practice of relationship-building. RSC specifies three mechanisms—historical recognition, desecuritized connection, and multi-level relational governance—and illustrates them through three cases: the Shanghai–Taipei City Forum, China–ROK environmental cooperation, and transnational memory platforms. Across cases, the analysis focuses on relational durability: the survival, reactivation, and gradual thickening of interactional channels through episodes of re-securitization.