Abstract The Asian currency crisis of 1997 awakened keen interests in regional monetary and financial cooperation in Asia. Since then, academic debates and policy dialogues…
Country or Region: China
Introduction The Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) has gradually become one of issues at stake among Northeast Asian Countries since the currency crisis of 1997. Different…
Introduction This paper will first examine the latest episode of the Taiwan strait crisis, the cross-strait relations between Beijing and Taipei, and the future probability…
Introduction In the immediate post-Cold War period, scholars and policy makers looking at strategic issues in the region tended to concentrate on Japan’s prospective military…
Introduction This essay surveys the patterns of East Asian and South Asian nuclear WMD proliferation and examines how US policy, unilaterally and in concert with other…
Introduction For the 40 years from 1949 to 1989, Sino-Soviet-US relations strongly influenced the political, economic, and security structure of East Asia. Today, though Beijing,…
Introduction For the purpose of this discussion northeast Asia is assumed to incorporate the People’s Republic of China, the Republic China (Taiwan), the Democratic People’s…
Introduction In the past year, the security environment on the Korean peninsula has gone from a seemingly hopeless stalemate to a situation with the best…
Introduction In the fifth ASEAN+three (ten nations belonging to the Association of South-East Asian Nations plus Korea, Japan and China) meeting held in Brunei in…
Introduction The World Trade Organization (WTO) came into force on January 1995 succeeding the General Agreements on Tariffs Trade (GATT 1948). Dozens of new membership…
Summary Yu Zheng challenges the idea that democracy is the prerequisite for developing countries to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and promote economic growth. He…
Abstract This article examines the impact of US monetary policy as the world dominant monetary policy on the global crude oil prices and investigates the…
Summary The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the…
Summary In international relations today, influence is as essential as military and economic might. Consequently, leaders promote favorable images of the state in order to…
Summary This book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of a key concept in East Asian security debates, sovereign autonomy, and how it reproduces hierarchy…
