Abstract: Since 2011, Myanmar has undertaken a series of domestic and foreign policy reforms, including democratisation and peacebuilding, before and after the watershed November 2015…
Country or Region: China
Abstract: This article contributes to the discussion about China’s divisive influence on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It argues that recent China–ASEAN relations…
Abstract: Russia’s growing energy cooperation with China is central to several of Moscow’s top foreign-policy objectives. Analyzing what drives Russia’s energy diplomacy with China can…
Abstract: East Asia has many distinctive features that set it apart from other comparable regions, not least attitudes to regional development and cooperation. Despite a…
Abstract: This article proposes a new concept of ‘contested multilateralism 2.0’ to describe the puzzling institutional building efforts by non-ASEAN members after the 2008 global…
Abstract: Based on the premise that perception operates either as a catalyst or a constraint for a hegemonic war, this study examines ‘national perceptions’ (i.e.…
Abstract: The paper challenges the notion that Chinese maritime coercion in the East and South China Seas (ESCS) is best described as a grey zone…
Abstract: China’s spectacular economic growth over the past decades has given rise to a more confident and proactive China in global governance. China is now…
Abstract: Japan’s policy toward India since 2000 appears to be a sign of new directions in Japan’s security policy since its decision to establish a…
Abstract: The fall of Suharto’s regime brought substantial changes in relations between Indonesia and China, and unleashed diverse perceptions of China. Reasons for these changes…
Abstract: Interpretations of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) mostly agree that it is a policy opening that offers some remedies for China’s economic and…
Abstract: This article focuses on South Asia’s role in China’s Maritime Silk Road (MSR) initiative. Given the saliency of this MSR enterprise as part of…
Abstract: This article examines the rise of China from the perspective of three selected countries – the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia – in Southeast Asia.…
Abstract: This article analyses elite opinion in South Korea about China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) in order to better understand how this Asia-Pacific middle…
Abstract: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is often regarded as a vehicle of China’s economic statecraft in that country’s endeavor to expand its geopolitical…
