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The English School values shared identities, values, interests, and puts importance on institutions and rules in international relations. The school holds that these elements can establish international society, and that order and peace can be maintained in international
society. In addition, the school lays more stress on change and common culture than constructivism which draws attention in studies of international relations in these days. Such
arguments of the English School have significant implications for the building of the peace regime on the Korea peninsula. First of all, the Machiavellian tradition of the current North Korean relations needs to be transformed into a Grotian tradition – which is appreciated by the English School - to maintain peace on the Korean peninsula. In the process of building the Korean peace regime, mutual recognition, interactions and cooperation – which are argued for as basic elements of international society by the English School – can function as fundamental steps for tension reduction and confidence building between the two Koreas.
Changes in interests and values in the two Koreas are needed to reach a peace treaty, and
institutions such as international law and diplomacy are important, in particular, to provide a
guarantee for the treaty by the great powers. As assumptions and arguments of the English
School encompass the requirements of the Korean peace regime, it could be argued that the
school can act as a kind of standard for establishing the regime.