Abstract Both Russia’s 2012 APEC chairmanship and recent dynamics in its dialogue partnership with ASEAN indicate Russia’s intention and ability to act as a constructive…
Country or Region: Japan
Introduction China’s assertive and high-handed activities in Asian waters—especially in the East and South China Seas—are generating serious security concerns within the international community. In…
Abstract Since 2011, there has been a remarkable transformation in Japanese-Russian relations, crowned by the opening of territorial negotiations. In sharp contrast with the provocative…
Abstract This paper contends that nationalism has always been a constant feature of Chinese politics. Indeed in order to understand the implications of China’s nationalism…
Abstract High stakes are involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations: the United States seems to be on the verge of redirecting Asian regionalism…
Abstract South Korea’s rising status in regional and global affairs has received significant attention in recent years. In academic, media, and policy debates, though, South…
Abstract This study argues that the concept of a regional leader is particularly promising for explaining the development of East Asian regionalism, albeit not the…
Abstract Asia–Pacific regionalism is quite different from its counterparts in other regions of the world. Most notably, it displays an extremely low level of institutionalization…
Abstract The international order in East Asia has been anchored on four pillars. The first pillar is the 1952 San Francisco peace treaty between the…
Abstract While the analysis of normative power has dominated the debates in European international relations studies for the past 20 years, this topic has hardly…
Abstract The aim of this article is to analyze the rationale and likely impacts of Chinese military modernization, which seems focused to work as China’s…
Abstract This article examines the Philippines’ strategy of external balancing against an aggressive China as it intensifies its security ties with the United States, its…
Abstract This study aims to analyze the possibility of a multilateral Northeast Asian free-trade agreement (FTA), a China–Japan–Korea FTA (CJK FTA), and estimates the optimal…
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…
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…
