Northeast Asia's security dilemma: Korea at the centre

Confidence in the capacity of the Asia Pacific region to preserve a flexible but fundamentally robust order weakened noticeably over the past year. Last year, this publication concluded that the outlook for regional security was one of qualified pessimism and that, collectively, the region was not winning the struggle to preserve confident expectations of peaceful change amid a transformation of the regions strategic parameters. Despite being clearly anticipated and exhaustively studied for some twenty-five years, the management of the Asia Pacifics strategic transformation is currently headed toward outcomes at the worst case end of the spectrum.