Summary Nonviolent state behavior in Japan, this book argues, results from the distinctive breadth with which the Japanese define security policy, making it inseparable from…
Topic: East Asian Security
Abstract Japan is undergoing profound changes that are empowering its political leadership at the expense of its bureaucracy. But rather than bringing about a clean…
Summary Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs—that between the United States and China. How the relationship…
Summary This book offers an empirical comparison of Chinese and Indian international strategic behavior. It is the first study of its kind, filling an important…
Abstract: This essay assesses recent Chinese scholarship on nontraditional security (NTS) issues, develops a new conceptual approach to NTS, and identifies challenges facing the Chinese…
Summary The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post–Cold War security…
From the Publisher: What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines in this revised version of his classic book the…
Summary Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as the science of victory. Today, however, in our world of…
Summary Japan’s Nuclear Option: Security, Politics, and Policy in the 21st Century is the culmination of a joint US-Japan task force assembled to examine the…
Summary In this paper, we explain why the U.S. government chose multilateral security arrangements in Europe and bilateral ones in Asia in the 1940s and…
Summary Traditional friends and allies of the United States in East Asia acknowledge that a key determinant of stability in the region has been the…
Summary In this book, Emmers addresses the key question: to what extent may the balance of power play a part in such cooperative security arrangements…
Abstract Is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) a pluralistic security community (PSC)? Does community cause security in Southeast Asia? In a PSC, member…
Abstract The small and medium-sized states in Southeast Asia have faced significant geostrategic changes with the end of the Cold War and the rise of…
