Abstract The Asian Financial Crisis in 1997–1998 and the mishandling of the crisis by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United States catalyzed the…
Country or Region: China
Abstract In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, monetary regionalism has been widely advocated as a means to shelter East Asia from not only…
Abstract The most under-reported aspect of the Arctic’s growing importance is its impact upon Asia’s international relations. There is an enormous need for energy due…
Introduction Military coercion has already changed the Asia-Pacific region. With so much attention being devoted to maritime security competition in Asia, including in the South…
Summary US-China Relations in the 21st Century addresses the bilateral relations of these two nations on an international, domestic, societal and individual level between 1990…
Abstract Normative changes in the Western-dominated international society have been taking place, symbolized by the evolution from the “standard of civilization” to the “new standard…
Abstract The widely held view ascribes China’s remarkable economic growth in the 1990s to the communist regime’s gradualist reform policies and illiberal development strategy. This…
Abstract US surveillance operations in the Chinese Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and entry into the 12 NM of China-held reefs in the South China Sea…
Abstract A key organizational challenge for all modern militaries is instituting an effective command-and-control (C2) structure for joint operations. China has been a relative latecomer…
Abstract The particular difficulties that Taiwan’s new administration faces are paradoxical, for their origin no longer has to do with ensuring the continuing existence of…
Summary The end of the Cold War has regrettably not brought an end to all the major confrontations of the last century. One such confrontation…
Abstract The relational turn of IR stresses the processual constitution of the state. The indigenous theory of Chinese IR adopts the relational turn but contends…
Summary In recent years, Asia’s economic and strategic environment has been transformed in a fundamental sense. The emerging ‘Asian Economic Community’—encompassing ASEAN, China, Japan, India…
Summary This book looks ahead to consider the most likely results of the encounter between China and the international system. Environmental, cultural and perceptual matters…
Abstract Over the past two decades the PLA has developed an operational concept designed to deny US naval forces use of vast areas of ocean.…
