Abstract What explains Japan’s security behavior? As an economically powerful state without commensurate military capabilities, Japan has long puzzled theorists of international relations. To explain…
Country or Region: Japan
Summary Is East Asia heading toward war? Throughout the 1990s, conventional wisdom among U.S. scholars of international relations held that institutionalized cooperation in Europe fosters…
Introduction In recent years, China has started throwing its weight around. It has defied international law and risked violent clashes in the East China and…
Abstract This article builds on previous academic works to elucidate a theory as to how Japan’s historical revisionism could have a negative impact on Japan’s…
Summary In January 2016, the RAND Corporation’s Center for Asia Pacific Policy organized a conference on maritime disputes in the East and South China Seas.…
Introduction In the next four years, North Korea is poised to cross a dangerous threshold by finally developing the capability to hit the continental United…
Introduction This paper examines the possibility of East Asia’s economic integration, paying special attention to East Asia’s economic institutionalization, including East Asian Economic Caucus (EAEC),…
Introduction One of the principal security issues of the post-Cold War era the disposition of plutonium. Decisions made by Japan over next decade—whether or not…
Introduction Northeast Asia is the only region in the world in which the technological potential to make nuclear weapons is combined with deep-seated (though currently…
Introduction Because of geographical convenience, China and East Asia have a long history of exchanges with each other. Relations between the two parties have a…
Abstract Trends of regionalism have helped Japan and Korea turn their attention toward forming an FTA. The two countries have continued to debate the FTA,…
Abstract The East Asian economy is ripe for a shift toward regional integration in response to the rise of the Chinese economy and developing regionalism…
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…
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 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…
