Summary Now in its new and fully updated third edition, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific continues to provide a compelling analysis of a…
Country or Region: United States
Summary Numerous crosswinds are buffeting the more than 40-year-old People’s Republic of China–American relationship, yet only once since Nixon’s historic trip to China in 1972…
Abstract The United States and China have now become the world’s leading countries but, problematically, there is no strategically shared consensus among policymakers and scholars…
Abstract Of the nine countries known to have nuclear weapons, six are located in Asia and another, the United States, borders the Pacific Ocean. Russia…
Preview The Barack Obama administration pursued a policy of rebalancing toward the Asia-Pacific with the aim of strengthening ongoing engagement in the region. One of…
Abstract The existing accounts about the China-led multilateral development bank–the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)–have focused on the USA’s policy concerns and the economic and…
Abstract Taiwan faces an uncertain future after the electoral victory of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the January 2016 elections. The election results,…
Abstract Recent political events, such as the UK decision to exit the EU and the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency, may indicate…
Abstract Recent political events, such as the UK decision to exit the EU and the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency, may indicate…
Abstract This article examines how Wilsonian foreign policy tradition has shaped the postwar US One China policy, and how Jacksonianism, championed by the Donald Trump…
Abstract This article examines the transformation of Thailand’s ties with the United States away from its “special relationship” in the Cold War, when Thailand viewed…
Abstract This article explains the shift in China’s behavior in the South China Sea between two periods: the first from 2000–2008 and the second from…
Abstract In 2015, Harvard’s Graham Allison wrote an evocative article discussing the “Thucydides Trap” in relations between China and the United States, highlighting the danger…
Abstract This article analyzes Sino-American relations using three strands of international relations scholarship–internal stability, trade expectations, and military perception. There has been no attempt to…
Abstract In this article we examine the exceptional case of South Korea’s establishment of cooperative relations with Iran, despite the latter’s confrontation with the United…
