Abstract The new century has witnessed phenomenal worldwide growth in renewable energy investments. China has been especially remarkable, surpassing both the US and the EU…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract The “Okinawa problem” to which the APJ has paid so much attention over recent years continues to evolve, and the contradiction between the national…
Abstract China attaches great importance to maintaining constructive relations with major powers. This article deals with the background and characteristics of the relationship between China,…
Abstract Only recently the Sino-Taiwanese issue has again been in the headlines of the international media. On Saturday, 3 August 2002, Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian…
Abstract Though Sino‐ASEAN relations improved in the 1970s, Indonesia and Singapore did not establish diplomatic relations with Beijing until 1990. China’s rise as a major…
Abstract The creation of formal regional cooperation in Southeast Asia is generally attributed to initiatives that came from countries in the region. In particular, the…
Abstract This article critically engages with recent scholarship that casts Russian foreign policy either in terms of a gradual evolution towards neo-imperialism, or alternatively as…
Abstract This paper examines the impact of increasing intra-state conflict in the Asia Pacific on domestic, regional and international security. It focuses on secessionist conflicts…
Abstract This essay examines why nationalism seems to be on the rise in Asia and beyond at a time when globalization is also becoming more…
Abstract Sino‐US relations are the most problematic of all the great power relationships in the Asia‐Pacific region, and in that relationship it is the question…
Abstract Vietnam has come to represent any situation of unexpected military failure or frustration, having an unexpectedly negative or counterproductive effect on the failing or…
Abstract Benedict Anderson reminds us that modernity has been characterized by the emergence of nation-states that can mobilize the passion of young men to “die…
Abstract Writing shortly after North Korea’s inaugural nuclear test in late 2006, Jonathan Pollack observed that ‘a decision to proceed with additional testing would constitute…
Abstract In India, a significant barrier to market-competitiveness of renewable energy is a shortage of attractive debt. Domestic debt has high cost, short tenors, and…
Abstract In this study, changes in natural gas reserve/production ratio (R/P) of the four countries having the highest natural gas reserves (Russia, Iran, Qatar, Turkmenistan),…
