Summary Geopolitics is a crucial element in understanding international relations in East Asia, with major and medium powers competing for influence. This book examines geopolitics…
Topic: East Asian Security
Summary China’s emergence as a great power is a global concern that can potentially alter the structure of world politics. Its rise is multidimensional, affecting…
Summary This book explores the ways that institutions play a role–or fail to–in Japanese and American approaches to regional governance in East Asia. It uses…
Summary Although India and China have very different experiences of colonialism, they respond to that history in a similar way—by treating it as a collective…
Summary This book looks at U.S.-Korea relations and argues that the durability of military alliances depends upon a combination of power distribution, material assets, and…
Summary Why is it that political conflict between countries sometimes undermines commerce between those states, and yet at other times it seems to have little…
Summary Various domestic factors impact upon China’s foreign policy making, such as bureaucracy, academics, media and public opinion. This stimulating book examines their increasing influence…
Summary Is East Asia heading toward war? Throughout the 1990s, conventional wisdom among U.S. scholars of international relations held that institutionalized cooperation in Europe fosters…
Summary This book takes an in-depth look at Japan’s long-festering territorial and maritime disputes with its three neighbors – China, South Korea and the Russian…
Summary China’s anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM), the DF-21D, has reached the equivalent of Initial Operational Capability. Although it probably has been deployed in small numbers,…
Summary Why should Americans worry about South Korean security? The answer is clear: North Korea, and beyond. Most international attention to the North Korea problem…
Abstract American preoccupation with the global economic recession and conflicts in Southwest Asia and the Middle East indicated that US relations with the rest of…
Summary “Sober and well-informed. . . . A careful and compelling examination of the U.S.-Chinese relationship from a number of angles.”—Financial Times There may be…
Summary “Future presidents will need to find the right balance in China policy, so as to maintain America’s strength and watchfulness but not fall into…
Summary The emergence of China on the world scene constitutes the most significant event in world politics since the end of World War II. Given…
