Preview: There is a high degree of strategic uncertainty in Asia, ranging from concerns about U.S. alliance commitments and the nature of China’s ambitions to…
Country or Region: China
Preview: This article argues that the structural drivers of U.S.-China competition are too deep to resolve through cooperative engagement and that policymakers must instead accept…
Preview: This essay will provide a Chinese perspective on the contending U.S. and Chinese visions of the regional economic order in East Asia. The discussion…
Preview: This essay examines the U.S. and Chinese visions for the East Asian economic order and discusses the specific points of convergence and divergence. It…
Preview: [..T]his essay outlines the main features of China’s vision for the Asian political-security order and compares it with the U.S.-led order. In contrast with…
Preview: The visions that great powers have for their neighborhood or regions farther afield are almost always about themselves—i.e. their role, power, and prestige in…
Abstract: In this article I explore the connection between historically based emotional issues and economic interests in China-Japan relations by analyzing the linkage between China’s…
Abstract: Donald Trump’s America First philosophy stresses the importance of sovereignty in international relations, bringing US policy at least rhetorically in line with that of…
Abstract: Chinese and Russian officials and scholars discursively construct and reconstruct repeatedly the nature and boundaries of Eurasian regional integration in an ongoing process of…
Abstract: Although not formal allies, China and Russia have steadily increased their strategic cooperation. However, crises and tensions in each other’s areas of strategic interest…
Abstract: After dismissing the Sino-Russian partnership for the past decade, scholars now scramble to assess its significance, particularly with US foreign policy in disarray under…
Abstract: In this article I analyze the China-Russia strategic partnership of cooperation from a constructivist perspective. By employing Wendt’s concepts and structures of identity to…
Abstract: Conventional studies of Chinese aid to Africa typically neglect China’s six decades of donor experience, and de-emphasize the distinct historical relationships that China holds…
Abstract: Since the early 2000s, energy security has appeared frequently in Chinese policy statements. The focus is on security of supply, even if the discourse…
Abstract: In this article I borrow insights into repeated patterns of global political change from long cycle and power transition theories and apply them to…
