Summary This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between…
Country or Region: China
Interview about coal within China’s energy policies with Armond Cohen, Executive Director of the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing atmospheric pollution…
This article covers plans for Japan and the United States to help member nations of ASEAN to “strengthen their maritime surveillance capabilities,” in a move “apparently…
Summary After forty years of largely cooperative Sino-U.S. relations, policymakers, politicians, and pundits on both sides of the Pacific see growing tensions between the United…
From the article: “Taiwan should consider seriously whether it should take a proactive approach to defusing tensions in the South China Sea by elucidating the…
The article makes the case that China is pursuing an expensive aircraft carrier plan due to prestige benefits, the need to manage a complex regional…
Executive Summary: U.S. administrations and officials are consistently caught flat-footed by the increasing assertiveness of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over disputed territories in the East China…
From the publisher: The twentieth century saw the rise of two important and interrelated norms. The first is the norm of self-determination, which advances the right…
Papers from a seminar sponsored by the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies and other organizations and held June 28-29, 1984 in Washington,…
An 1993 assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency of nuclear energy developments in Asia, now one of the fastest growing locations for nuclear power.
Summary In a systematic study of the political economy of East Asia, Cai adopts an historical perspective alongside a contemporary focus, exploring East Asia’s development…
Summary For students of international political economy, it is hard to ignore the growth, dynamism, and global impact of East Asia. Japan and China are…
Summary The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention–and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-fifth…
Summary On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention…
Summary China’s spectacular growth has led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist…
