Abstract President Obama’s stewardship of US foreign policy is continuing his predecessors’ success in maintaining regional stability and the US pre-eminence in the region. Obama…
Country or Region: China
Abstract This Critical Comment seeks to situate the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) within the context of South China Sea…
Abstract Predictions of nuclear proliferation since the 1950s have proven to be almost wholly unreliable. Not only has the widely held expectation that the international…
Abstract Many contemporary academics and policy analysts have revisited the Anglo-German rivalry before 1914 to predict what may await China and the United States in…
Abstract The rise of China increased competition for foreign direct investment and exports for the ASEAN economies. It also increased ASEAN trade with China. But,…
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Abstract The nuclear arms control regime—centered on the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)—faces five challenges: failure of nuclear disarmament by the five NPT-licit nuclear powers…
Abstract What explains a state’s decision to give up its nuclear weapons program? While instances of nuclear reversal figure prominently in international politics, evidence in…
Abstract Scholars and officials persistently criticize China for low transparency in its military affairs. Why does Beijing exacerbate the asymmetric information problem, even though this…
Abstract This article examines the formulation and implementation of American grand strategy under the Obama administration, and how the “pivot to Asia” functions within this…
Abstract In the 64 years since the development of nuclear weapons, large and vibrant debates over the role of nuclear weapons in deterrence and war-fighting…
Abstract Chinese foreign policy can be usefully examined from a world order perspective because its normative components play such a crucial role. An explicit set…
Abstract Globalization scholars have long-debated to what extent economic integration, and, specifically, mobile private capital, constrains national policy-making. With Western capital reeling from the 2008…
Abstract The IR literature on hegemony rarely combines attention to material power and ideas. Cox’s neo-Gramscian work is a rare exception, but it too narrowly…
Abstract This article analyses Japan-China maritime relations with reference to economic, geopolitical and identity-politics factors, seeking to account for the shift from the high-point of…
Abstract The belief that China will soon become the dominant power in Asia is based on assumptions that its continued and rapid economic rise, and…
