Abstract This article examines the foreign policy views of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), from the party’s founding through its first year in power.…
Country or Region: United States
Abstract The treatment of the wartime period in Japan’s history textbooks has long been a subject of debate and controversy, even a source of international…
Summary The United States has maintained military forces in the Asia Pacific region since the end of World War II and its alliances with key…
Summary One Alliance, Two Lenses examines U.S.-Korea relations in a short but dramatic period (1992–2003) that witnessed the end of the Cold War, South Korea’s full…
Summary From the Opium Wars of the 1840s, to the Red Scare of the 1940s, through the Tiananmen “massacre” of 1989, and the Wen Ho…
Summary India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership examines the astonishing new strategic partnership between the United States and India. Unlike…
Summary The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 rapidly and irrevocably transformed Central Asia’s political landscape. This region of five sovereign states with a…
Summary Often lost in the discussion about the nuclear crisis are its regional dynamics. Since 2002, China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea have struggled to…
Abstract The Obama administration has responded to Chinese assertiveness by reinforcing U.S. military and diplomatic links to the Asia-Pacific, to much acclaim at home and…
Summary From Deterrence to Engagement provides a comprehensive examination of the U.S.-South Korea defense relationship from 1945 to the present. Using deterrence theory as its…
Summary As tensions on the Korean peninsula rise after an international investigation found that North Korea was responsible for the sinking of a South Korean…
Summary Contains a collection of papers produced by participants (U.S. and regional scholars and analysts) at a conference,“Asia Eyes America,” held at the Naval War…
Summary As he prepares to visit India in November, President Obama faces criticism that his administration has done too little to enhance U.S.–Indian relations. Pundits…
Abstract China is building a modern and regionally powerful Navy with a modest but growing capability for conducting operations beyond China’s near-seas region. The question…
Abstract Russia made uneven progress in democratization during the 1990s, but this limited progress was reversed after Vladimir Putin rose to power in 1999-2000, according…
