From the publisher: Many in China fear that the United States’ Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) framework seeks to co-opt or destroy regional economic cooperation, leading Beijing to…
Topic: Political Economy
From the publisher: The choices that four rising democracies—Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Turkey—make will help determine the trajectory of the interlocking web of norms, institutions, rules,…
Abstract An examination of India’s erratic & often marginal political, economic, & security relations with Southeast Asia in 2002 describes India’s long-standing historical, cultural, &…
From the publisher: Pakistan is not, today, a failed state. However, for the first time since I started focusing on South Asia, in the past eight…
From the publisher: In the Hu Jintao era (2002–2012) China’s politics, economics, and national security policies have changed almost beyond recognition. The ongoing transformation has been…
From the publisher: A better way to conceptualize the Pakistani challenge is to recognize that Pakistan fits into a category of states that are both things…
From the publisher: Even as the BRICS member states come to terms with a rising China and even if they get their economic act together, the…
Summary Nuclear power is often characterized as a “green technology.” Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of…
Summary This Trends in Southeast Asia series — now revamped and redesigned — acts as a platform for serious analyses written by selected authors who…
Abstract The long-standing strategic disconnect between South Asia and the Korean Peninsula is breaking down. Driven by the changing balance of power in Asia, India and South Korea have…
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 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 Five Central Asian states emerged out of the Soviet Union’s Central Asian republics in 1991. Although U.S. policymakers presumed that Iran would inevitably sweep…
Summary The Fukuda Doctrine has been the official blueprint to Japan’s foreign policy towards Southeast Asia since 1977. This book examines the Fukuda Doctrine in…
Summary Japan’s Economic Power and Security is the first study to investigate, in depth, Japan’s reaction to the recent diplomatic, military, and economic security crisis…
