Summary Successful deterrence requires both threats and assurances about the conditionality of those threats. The real security dilemma is how to be tough enough without…
Country or Region: China
From the publisher: Food is a tireless referent in international relations studies about China and its ties with the rest of the world. This paper addresses…
From the publisher: China’s rise to become the world’s second-largest economy, surpassing Japan in 2010, and the modernization of its military have caused anxiety among China’s…
Summary As Taiwan heads into dual national elections—a legislative election scheduled for January 12, 2008, and a presidential election scheduled for March 22, 2008—tensions across…
From the publisher: The real threat from Beijing’s geostrategic energy security strategy is not the risk of conflict or even energy insecurity, where their leverage is…
Summary This paper analyzes the development of Taiwan’s security policy by exploring the decision-making of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government under the leadership of…
From the publisher: Over the past few years, Chinese experts began to clear some of their legendary legal, moral, ideological, and practical hurdles to using unilateral…
From the publisher: Over the last five years, China and Japan have worked to develop several maritime confidence building and communication arrangements to reduce the chances…
Continue reading Przystup, James, John Bradford, and James Manicom
Publisher’s Note China’s tough stand on maritime territorial disputes evident in the 2012 confrontations with the Philippines in the South China Sea and with Japan…
From the publisher: Many in China fear that the United States’ Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) framework seeks to co-opt or destroy regional economic cooperation, leading Beijing to…
From the publisher: The choices that four rising democracies—Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Turkey—make will help determine the trajectory of the interlocking web of norms, institutions, rules,…
From the publisher: The risk of conflict escalating from relatively minor events has increased in the South China Sea over the past two years with disputes…
The relationship between the United States and China is one of the most important issues in the twenty-first century, and is, ultimately, hostage to conditions…
From the publisher: In the Hu Jintao era (2002–2012) China’s politics, economics, and national security policies have changed almost beyond recognition. The ongoing transformation has been…
Summary The majority of Taiwan residents now have Taiwan-centered national identities, viewing the island as separate and independent from the Chinese mainland. Thus, few people…
