Abstract This article systematically examines the perceptual dimension of US–China–ASEAN relations. It specifically focuses on Chinese perceptions of American intentions in Southeast Asia, Chinese perceptions…
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Abstract South Korea’s alliance strategies for the past several years have demonstrated that Seoul has a strong desire to maintain the US–South Korean alliance and…
Abstract In this analysis of the Senkaku/Diaoyu, including the US role, I employ the framework of Western theories of international relations (IR). The analysis turns…
Abstract Science can serve as an attractive mode for trust building and cooperative engagement between countries where formal political or diplomatic relations have been strained…
Abstract US-China relations recently have gone through ups and downs. I examine changes in public opinion that underpin the constrained relationship. In fact, public perceptions…
Abstract During 2009–2011, Chinese writings on South Korea and the history of the Korean nation grew more somber in tone. They widened the national identity…
Abstract A growing body of literature has focused on an alleged “power shift” from the United States to China (and from the West to the…
Abstract In 2009 the Democratic Party of Japan came to power promising a foreign policy shift, aiming for a more equal relationship with the United…
Abstract I analyze the substance and goals of China’s antisatellite program. Following China’s 2007 antisatellite test that successfully destroyed one of its aging satellites, signs…
Abstract Recent patterns suggest that states are using economic sanctions more frequently. However, sanctions fail to achieve intended political or economic goals most of the…
Abstract Using a historical approach based on newly declassified materials, I attempt to explain the correlation or contradiction between the open “Korea Clause” of 1969…
Abstract In this article I explore why US approaches to the trade-security nexus in postwar East Asia have unfolded in three critical stages: securitization, desecuritization,…
Abstract The current East Asian strategic environment and US strategy toward the region reveal that the United States faces foreign policy problems that would diminish…
Abstract I review the principle of reciprocity in South Korean security policy with regard to North Korea and the United States and analyze how the…
Abstract The George W. Bush administration resorted to war to respond to the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, whereas it virtually ruled…
