![]() We suggest that one of the emergent patterns of human organization in the region - a continuous city corridor stretching from Beijing to Tokyo - presents an immense challenge to the leaders of China, South Korea, and Japan. We argue that international security and sustainability are dimensions of human existence that increasingly reveal the characteristics of complex systems at the start of the twenty-first century rather than the relatively simple state of affairs that pertained in the last half of the twentieth century. Without convergence towards consensus on which of these issues are truly global, there is no basis for agreeing on which of these problems are common to all countries in East Asia and which are so important they justify joint action in the form of shared solutions.ĢIn section 2, we enter the conceptual world of complex systems. ![]() In turn, we find this effort is limited by the privileged status of the participating experts, and we suggest that what constitutes a global problem must be negotiated across national borders and political cultures. To demonstrate the need for a consistent approach with an explicit method and transparent values in developing a ranking of global problems, we describe the effort of the World Economic Forum to generate a map of global risks based on the perceptions of global leaders. We conclude there is no agreement as to which global problems are most urgent, let alone how each fits into these three categories. In section 1, we begin by asking two fundamental questions: what is specifically “global” about a global problem, and what underlies an issue of global concern that makes it problematic? We outline three categories of global problems - those that affect the sharing of global commons, those that affect our shared humanity, and those that rely on our shared rule book for regulating human activity. ![]() ![]() 1This chapter presents an argument about the relationship between global problems, complexity, problem-solving, and East Asian civil society. ![]()
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