Summary Relations between mainland China and Taiwan have improved markedly in recent years, giving rise to the key question, How far can the current rapprochement…
Country or Region: China
Summary Ever since China and Vietnam resumed diplomatic contacts and reopened the border in 1991, the borderland region has become part of the vibrant growing…
Summary Since the end of the Cold War China and Japan have faced each other as powers of relatively equal strength for the first time…
From the publisher: This article is composed of three major sections. In the first section, I explain why the pessimistic predictions of the 1990s about a…
Summary The rising demand for energy, the higher costs of oil and gas, and the association of fossil fuels with adverse climate change have all…
From the publisher: The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post–Cold War security…
From the publisher: This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global…
Summary A roadmap for understanding the business challenges and opportunities in China By 2025, China and India will be two of the world’s four largest…
From the publisher: The development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies have become globalized phenomena. Yet despite the fact that energy-related goods account for more than…
Introduction In 1890, an undistinguished US Navy captain published a book that would influence generations of strategists. Alfred Thayer Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power…
Abstract This article reviews and explains Chinese attitudes towards the use of force in international affairs, especially from the perspective of strategic culture. The author…
Abstract As international pressure on China’s policy concerning its increasing investments in Iran grows, the Chinese leadership has to painfully balance its impulse toward energy…
Abstract This article reconstructs an ideational trajectory in which China’s views of the Korean–American alliance evolved during the last 60 years. The article first surveys…
Abstract Sino–Russian relations have swayed considerably in the second millennium. During the Yeltsin era, China–Russia relations were still strong, but this changed abruptly after Putin’s…
Abstract The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was accepted by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) as one among other pathfinders, for a comprehensive Free Trade Area…
