The Cold War Never Ended in Asia

... problems from the very outset and fell apart after the US defeat in Vietnam. In the North, all US attempts to unite Japan and the Republic of Korea under a shared security umbrella were not successful due to complicated relations between Seoul and Tokyo. Not ... ... and Asia over the second half of the XX century usually put the former above the latter arguing that Asia suffered from a post-WW2 ‘institutional deficit’ that Asian nations failed to overcome even after the Cold War was declared terminated in 1989....