Summary The China-Pakistan axis plays a central role in Asia’s geopolitics, from India’s rise to the prospects for a post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear terrorism…
Country or Region: China
Abstract Following the US “pivot” to Asia, the European Union (EU) announced its own pivot to Asia in 2012 with stepped-up engagement. A flurry of…
Summary Pithy and reflective, this book highlights the key economic and political issues that Australia should currently be considering as a Western country geographically and…
Abstract The world economy is going through a testing time and Europe’s concerns are understandable. Much attention has been focused on the rise of Asia,…
Abstract The debt crisis in several member states of the euro area has raised doubts on the viability of the European Economic and Monetary Union…
Summary China has rapidly become Australia’s most important trading partner. It is also the rising power in our region. In The Kingdom and the Quarry…
Abstract The development of unconventional gas exploration in the USA, in particular shale gas, caused a revolution in the American and the global gas markets.…
Abstract The ancient Chinese always had a complex psychic relation to the vast ocean: longing, but disdaining. On the one hand, they thought there were…
Abstract This paper addresses a key problem in EU-China economic relations: the capacity of the EU to exert leverage through its economic diplomacy in the…
Abstract Analyses of China’s Indian Ocean forays have been sporadic, seasonal, and restricted. Often, these are triggered by and remain limited to reporting new assets…
Abstract The article argues that the “principled multilateralism” of the immediate post-Cold War period is increasingly giving way to what may be called a “diminished…
Abstract South Asia is a latecomer with regard to regionalisom compared with other regions of the world and the Indian Ocean Region in particular, which…
Abstract The year 2009 marked many dynamic developments in the South China Sea which attracted the attention of the international community. The main objective of…
Abstract China’s gas industry has witnessed a massive expansion and Chinese energy planners envisage a huge development of natural gas in China until 2030. This…
Abstract This paper discusses China and Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Organisation (SCO), a Eurasian regional organisation established in 2001 and consisting of China,…
