Summary Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific. Despite this,…
Country or Region: China
Summary Tracing the genesis of the Senkaku Islands in the memoirs of history, and its potential future, in the backdrop of the East China Sea’s…
Summary The Routledge Handbook of Africa–Asia Relations is the first handbook aimed at studying the interactions between countries across Africa and Asia in a multi-disciplinary…
Summary Asia after the Developmental State presents cutting-edge analyses of state-society transformation in Asia under globalisation. The volume incorporates a variety of political economy and…
Summary Japan’s Foreign Relations in Asia has been specifically designed to introduce students to Japan’s foreign relations in Asia since 1990, a period in which…
Summary Numerous crosswinds are buffeting the more than 40-year-old People’s Republic of China–American relationship, yet only once since Nixon’s historic trip to China in 1972…
Abstract The United States and China have now become the world’s leading countries but, problematically, there is no strategically shared consensus among policymakers and scholars…
Abstract This article aims to evaluate the will of the Chinese government to implement UN Security Council Resolution 2270 following North Korea’s fourth nuclear test…
Abstract Western commentators often view the emergence of a modernizing Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) through the theoretical lens of Alfred Thayer Mahan, an…
Abstract Is China’s rise a threat? Offensive realists see rising China as a main cause of global instability in the 21st century. Because all states…
Abstract Transboundary rivers have remained one of the sources of contention and cooperation among states in international politics. The Mekong is one such river along…
Abstract The aim of this paper is to project the emerging power-relations in the maritime realm between geopolitical players in the Indian Ocean region. These…
Abstract Asia, a region grappling with the impacts of climate change, increasing natural disasters, and transboundary water issues, faces major challenges to water security. Water…
Abstract Of the nine countries known to have nuclear weapons, six are located in Asia and another, the United States, borders the Pacific Ocean. Russia…
Abstract The China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is set to become a formidable development programme and its implications will be far reaching for East…
