Abstract Instead of competing with rising powers for scarce fossil energy resources of the past, security, economic, & environmental factors give U.S. policymakers strong incentives…
Country or Region: United States
Abstract As the world’s economic and strategic “center of gravity” shifts from the Euro-Atlantic area to the Asia-Pacific, the Indian Ocean is emerging as an…
Abstract We take aim at “offshore balancing,” a foreign-policy concept that has come into vogue in a United States beset by war weariness, a stagnant…
Abstract Although China and the United States do not rely on one another for energy supplies, the prospects for energy to become a cause for…
Abstract In the January 2006 State of the Union address, President Bush announced a new Advanced Energy Initiative, a significant part of which is the…
Summary In 1973, the United States and other western countries were shocked by the Arab oil embargo. Lines formed at gasoline pumps; fuel stations ran…
Summary This analysis of the United States and energy security examines the close relationship between US military supremacy in oil-rich regions and America’s maintenance of…
Abstract A series of Six-Party Talks involving the United States, China, Japan, South and North Korea, and Russia resulted in the emergence of a narrative…
Summary Combining a close knowledge of Asia and an ability to tap Chinese-language sources with naval combat experience and expertise in sea-power theory, the authors…
Abstract In its relations with Taiwan and China, Washington has begun to implement separate dual strategies in order to simultaneously deter unilateral action while balancing out the…
Abstract Focusing on the US Clinton and Bush administration’s dissimilar security policies and practices toward the Korean Peninsula, this article aims to examine how the…
Abstract Mainstream approaches perpetuate the Taiwan–China ‘crisis’. They do so by following Cold-War concepts and prescriptions, despite the rise of new realities and new visions…
Abstract This paper charts the growth and patterns of free trade agreement (FTA) activity in the Asia-Pacific, discussing the extent to which there has been…
Abstract The 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath have triggered uncertainty about the future of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. China and other…
Abstract The national currency of the United States, the dollar, plays a critical international role. The privileged position of the dollar, which has greatly facilitated…
