Abstract: This paper discusses Vietnam’s security cooperation with the United States in three phases. Following the end of the Vietnam War in the 1970s, Vietnam…
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Abstract: With the increasing importance of the US-Japan Security Alliance amidst heightening regional tensions between Japan and its neighbours, the debate concerning the US base…
Abstract: For the last few decades, the discipline of international relations has been littered with anarchy. Since Waltz’s Theory of International Politics, it has been…
Abstract: China’s disputes with its South East Asian neighbours and Japan in the South and East China Seas have emerged as important tests of the…
Abstract: This paper provides a review of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) nuclear warfare and uranium mining programs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.…
Abstract: China’s greater Middle East geoeconomic strategy is centered on an external trade and industry policy. This trade and industry policy combines geopolicy and geoeconomic…
Abstract: The Chinese government actively engages in infrastructure diplomacy, with the state financing and constructing capital goods multilaterally under the Belt and Road Initiative and…
Abstract: This paper draws on the notion of “geopolitical culture” as a conceptual tool for understanding debates over the formulation of foreign policy in contemporary…
Abstract: Most analyses of China’s foreign and security policies treat China as a unitary actor, assuming a cohesive grand strategy articulated by Beijing. I challenge…
Abstract: China’s efforts in conflict mediation are an important test of the durability of the principle of non-interference. By analysing the approaches and means of…
Abstract: China’s view on the sanctity of state sovereignty has slowly but inexorably been transformed, and the country has found it difficult to continue to…
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Abstract: There is among Chinese international relations scholars an intense debate about how China can protect and promote Chinese global presence and interests while at…
Abstract: Disputing research that depicts weak states getting overwhelmed by China’s financial might, this article argues that the political elites in a relatively weak and…
Abstract: Iran is one of the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). What effects will the realization of the BRI have on…
Abstract: While much has been written about US–China strategic rivalry, no study to the authors’ knowledge has conducted an empirical analysis of this rivalry. This…
