Summary Maritime issues are particularly important for Asian countries, where there is a high reliance on shipping routes for international trade, many difficult disputes over…
Publication Type: Books
Summary The South China Sea is a major strategic waterway for trade and oil shipments to Japan, Korea as well as southern China. It has…
Summary Many scholars of international relations in Asia regard bilateralism and multilateralism as alternative and mutually exclusive approaches to security co-operation. They argue that multilateral…
Summary As tensions remain on the Korean peninsula, this book looks back on the decade of improved inter-Korean relations and engagement between 1998 and 2008,…
Summary Ownership of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea is disputed between China and Japan, though historically the islands have been part of…
Summary Asian regional integration has shown remarkable progress since the end of the 1990s, but is currently at a major crossroads amid confusion of debate…
Summary This book examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It demonstrates how security and economic concerns -domestic,…
Summary In a relatively short period, the growth of investment to China and the resulting increase in Chinese trade has resulted in a reconfiguration of…
Summary This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the linkage between the increasingly important region of Southeast Asia and the theoretical possibilities of the…
Summary Despite flourishing economic interactions and deepening interdependence, the current political and diplomatic relationship between Japan and China remains lukewarm at best. Indeed, bilateral relations…
Summary In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman’s most…
Summary This book offers the first systematic analysis of Putin’s two wars, placing the Second Chechen War and the War with Georgia of 2008 in…
Summary US Defence Strategy from Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom examines the thirty-year transformation in American military thought and defence strategy that spanned from 1973…
Summary As tensions between Japan and China continue to bubble over islands in the East China Sea, scholars from the two countries outline not only…
Summary Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of Hiroshima and the origins of the…
