Asian Security and India-Korea Strategic Cooperation

Abstract

Abstract Today Asia possesses significant economic weight in the international arena. Asian countries are clamoring for greater international economic and political roles. However, the presence of assertive nationalism, the unfinished agenda of national consolidation, significant territorial disputes, intense mutual distrust based on historical antagonism, internal conflicts, the spread of weapons of mass destruction and the presence of large numbers of failed states continue to pose a serious threat to peace and stability in Asia. India and Korea are located in strategic regions where superpower the United States, other major powers such as China, Japan, and Russia, and also the military states of North Korea and Pakistan are actively involved. Both countries' unprecedented reliance on external sources of energy and markets are setting broad perimeters within which their foreign policy must operate. A minimal foreign policy, which both India and Korea followed during the Cold War, can no longer produce t...