ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of the long peace of East Asia has been drastic and 95 percent of annual battle deaths in this vast region have disappeared. East Asia has become pacific by focusing on development and other uniting matters and in so doing it has created a social reality that is less paranoid, less militaristic, and more cooperative. The experience of the long peace of East Asia has contributed many important specifications to the existing theory of peace, conflicts and international relations. The short peace of the 1950s in East Asia needs to be fully studied in order to solve the puzzle of East Asian peace. Finally, as the main element of the peaceful approach in East Asia after 1979 has been the respect for military non-interference, and respect for the sovereignty of fellow East Asian countries, it seems that certain disputes of the region have remained outside the peace regime.
