Summary This book explores Korea’s place in terms of multiple levels and domains of interaction pertaining to foreign-policy behaviors and relations with the four regional/global…
Topic: East Asian Security
Abstract Robert Ross of Boston College reaches a more optimistic conclusion about the future of East Asian security. He focuses on the role of geography…
Summary An overarching ambiguity characterizes East Asia today. The region has at least a century-long history of internal divisiveness, war, and conflict, and it remains…
Summary Defining and conceptualizing Northeast Asia’s security complex poses unique quandaries. The security architecture in Northeast Asia to date has been predominately U.S.-dominated bilateral alliances,…
Summary Is Northeast Asia primed for peace or ripe for great-power rivalry? In this turbulent region, all the world-order challenges of arms control and disarmament,…
Summary Have Japan’s relative economic decline and China’s rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power,…
Summary Most studies of Asia-Pacific security are marked by pessimism and continuing belief in the virtues of a balance of power. Pacific Asia? goes against…
Summary Traditionally, stability in Asia has relied on America’s bilateral alliances with Japan, Australia, and the Republic of Korea. Yet in recent years, emergent and…
Summary The rivalry between Japan and China has a long and sometimes brutal history, and they continue to eye each other warily as the balance…
Summary The seminal text on neorealist analysis! From Theory of International Politics: National politics is the realm of authority, of administration, and of law. International…
Summary This book is the first systematic examination of the emerging arms race in Asia. The global trade in arms is to a large degree…
Summary The Asian Pacific has emerged as one of the most important regions in the world, causing scholars to pay increased attention to the various…
Summary “A superb book….Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers.”—The National Interest, Barry R. Posen A decade…
Summary Kapor argues that explanations of international relations in Asia in the post-Second World War period have relied too much on the Cold War as…
Summary The navies of China, India and to a lesser extent Japan are expanding rapidly at present. This has the potential to alter the US-dominated…
