Summary Combining a close knowledge of Asia and an ability to tap Chinese-language sources with naval combat experience and expertise in sea-power theory, the authors…
Country or Region: China
Abstract This article investigates China’s current relations with North Korea to argue that North Korea’s slow reforms bring gain aid from China and sympathy from…
Abstract The new wave of nationalistic fervor in China is believed to have further complicated cross-strait relations. Ordinary Chinese are not willing to see Taiwan moving towards…
Abstract China has become Taiwan’s most important export and investment destination. This phenomenon is puzzling to realism as concerns for security externalities should discourage commerce between…
Abstract In its relations with Taiwan and China, Washington has begun to implement separate dual strategies in order to simultaneously deter unilateral action while balancing out the…
Summary In a relatively short period, the growth of investment to China and the resulting increase in Chinese trade has resulted in a reconfiguration of…
Abstract Russia’s place in the Asia-Pacific region (APR) is undefined, hovering between Moscow’s grandiose visions of its geopolitical role in balance of power strategies, and…
Abstract Mainstream approaches perpetuate the Taiwan–China ‘crisis’. They do so by following Cold-War concepts and prescriptions, despite the rise of new realities and new visions…
Abstract Northeast Asia has emerged as the center of gravity in contemporary international relations (IR), partly owing to China’s rise, over the past two decades.…
Abstract This paper charts the growth and patterns of free trade agreement (FTA) activity in the Asia-Pacific, discussing the extent to which there has been…
Abstract The 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath have triggered uncertainty about the future of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. China and other…
Abstract The national currency of the United States, the dollar, plays a critical international role. The privileged position of the dollar, which has greatly facilitated…
Summary Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East,…
Summary Northeast Asia, where the interests of three major nuclear powers and the world’s two largest economies converge around the unstable pivot of the Korean…
Summary In brute-force struggles for survival, such as the two World Wars, disorganization and divisions within an enemy alliance are to one’s own advantage. However,…
