Summary This new title from Routledge, edited by Professor Leszek Buszynski, includes the key literature on Asia Pacific Security. Arranged across four volumes, the collection…
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Summary How can countries decide what kind of military forces they need, if threats are uncertain and history is full of strategic surprises? This is…
Summary The debate surrounding U.S. nuclear policy focuses too narrowly on reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the American arsenal toward zero. More important…
From the publisher: This article is composed of three major sections. In the first section, I explain why the pessimistic predictions of the 1990s about a…
From the publisher: A serious gap exists in scholarly understanding of nuclear proliferation. The gap derives from inadequate attention to the phenomena of nuclear reversal and…
From the publisher: This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global…
The article is a response to a piece by Daniel Drezner, Professor of International Politics and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University,…
Abstract This article reconstructs an ideational trajectory in which China’s views of the Korean–American alliance evolved during the last 60 years. The article first surveys…
Abstract The Asian seas today are witnessing an intriguing historical anomaly—the simultaneous rises of two homegrown maritime powers against the backdrop of U.S. dominion over…
Summary At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and…
Summary Conventional wisdom holds that China’s burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer of Beijing. Not so, writes…
Summary Since the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997–98, East Asian economies have sought to make themselves less vulnerable to global financial markets by transforming the…
From the article: For long, the US has played a rather ambivalent role in relation to Israeli arms exports. It has acted both as an advocate…
Abstract The conventional understanding of Japan’s approach to East Asian regionalism is that of a primacy struggle with China, using both hard and soft balancing.…
Abstract What role does oil play in international security? While the threat of “resource wars” over possession of oil reserves is often exaggerated, the sum…
