Summary The first half of the 21st century will be dominated by the relationship between the United States and China. That relationship is likely to…
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Abstract The EU and China may strike observers as actors with fundamentally different political and normative outlooks and thus unlikely partners in international security. Yet,…
Abstract Although news accounts cover the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands issue, rarely is historical background given. This article focuses on Taiwanese diplomatic documents dating from after World…
Abstract The sea sets East Asia apart from other regional systems that influence international economic, political and military affairs. Alessio Patalano argues that in East…
Summary The report shall address the current and probable future course of military-technological development of the People’s Liberation Army and the tenets and probable development…
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Abstract The East China Sea (ECS) is gaining an increasingly central role in Sino-Japanese relations as it is crucial to the economic development and political…
Abstract For rationalists, China (PRC)’s current conciliatory policy toward Taiwan is merely “calculative.” Hence, Chinese leaders must act patiently with Taiwan to dampen the “China…
Abstract This article analyzes the most recent phase of Japan’s security policy reform, focusing on its shifting priorities towards the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the…
Abstract Most international relations (IR) research on the role of collective memory and representations of the past gives the impression that these primarily matter for…
Abstract The article argues that the “China threat” argument in mainstream international relations literature in the United States is derived, primarily, from a discursive construction…
Summary How has world order changed since the Cold War ended? Do we live in an age of American empire, or is global power shifting…
Summary Vietnam’s new foreign policy approach, which some analysts have labelled ‘more friends, fewer enemies’, reflects its precarious position as a bird on the wire…
Summary New security challenges are increasingly important in U.S. security planning. Transnational threats that do not arise from national rivalries or involve geopolitical competition—climate change,…
Summary The second of Gilbert Rozman’s contributed volumes on East Asian national identity traces how efforts to draw a sharp divide between one country’s identity…
Summary This rigorous comparative study of national identity in Japan, South Korea, and China examines countries with long histories influenced by Confucian thought, surging nationalism,…
