Abstract Vietnam’s perception of China is nuanced and complex, a mixture of challenge and opportunity. Given its geographic proximity and overwhelming power, China represents a…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract Over the last two decades, China has experienced one of the most dramatic and sustained periods of economic growth in world history. China’s use…
Abstract Vying for high-speed railway projects overseas has become a prominent feature of China’s diplomacy in recent years, including in Southeast Asia. These efforts have…
Abstract In response to the challenge of unstable North Korea (weak economy, weapons of mass destruction [WMD] development), China has followed an engagement-oriented strategy based…
Abstract In recent decades, the development of trilateral institutions among China, Japan and South Korea has begun to take shape. This study analyzes its strengths…
Abstract Over the last 30 years, East Asia has progressed from virtually no intergovernmental arrangement in the 1980s to exclusive financial regionalism supported by strong…
Abstract When external eyes turned to China 30 years ago (if they did at all), the focus was still on the extent to which it…
Abstract This paper explores the probable causes and consequences of an Asian Paradox or the highly incongruous structure of Asia within the broader international system:…
Abstract What kind of challenge did a rising Japan in the 1970s and 1980s pose to the United States, and how does that differ from…
Abstract This article examines China’s motivations for trilateral aid cooperation in the context of its seemingly assertive diplomacy in recent years. Previously known for its…
Abstract This paper seeks to understand why the United States treated Japan and Korea differently in the revisions of bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements. On the…
Abstract While the Korea–United States (KORUS) free-trade agreement negotiations were concluded in 2007, and ratified in 2011, the agreement has remained deeply controversial. Labor unions,…
Abstract This article focuses on the export of infrastructure systems as Japan’s foreign economic policy that is unique in terms of diplomatic goals and means.…
Abstract This paper analyses ASEAN’s prominence in regional order negotiation and management in Southeast Asia and the Asia-pacific through the lens of social role negotiation.…
Abstract The political-economic evolution of post-Mao China has been portrayed as a historically inevitable embrace of neoliberalism; as an exemplification of the East Asian developmental…
