Summary Clymer explores attitudes toward Burma (later Myanmar), from anxious anticommunism during the Cold War to interventions to stop drug trafficking to debates in Congress,…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract This article explains why a considerable part of the International Relations literature frames highly complex energy relations between the EU and Russia in terms…
Abstract The rise of China increased competition for foreign direct investment and exports for the ASEAN economies. It also increased ASEAN trade with China. But,…
Abstract This paper discusses the political motivations behind the evolution of economic cooperation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from its founding to…
Abstract Scholars and officials persistently criticize China for low transparency in its military affairs. Why does Beijing exacerbate the asymmetric information problem, even though this…
Abstract Globalization scholars have long-debated to what extent economic integration, and, specifically, mobile private capital, constrains national policy-making. With Western capital reeling from the 2008…
Abstract This paper examines the role of FDI from the United States in the economic performance of East Asian NICs for 1966–2000. To this end,…
Abstract This article analyses Japan-China maritime relations with reference to economic, geopolitical and identity-politics factors, seeking to account for the shift from the high-point of…
Abstract The belief that China will soon become the dominant power in Asia is based on assumptions that its continued and rapid economic rise, and…
Abstract This article seeks to examine the foreign policy behaviour of weak states in regions marked by politically turbulent geostrategic environments. An analysis of Afghanistan’s…
Summary This book analyses the notion of neutrality to the politics of the state in Southeast Asia. Distinguishing among neutrality, neutralism and neutralisation, it asks…
Abstract This article investigates the evolution of the European Union (EU)–Russia relationship to understand whether Russia’s violations of Ukraine’s territorial integrity in 2014 destroyed the…
Abstract New Delhi has been grappling with the challenge of China’s rapid rise for some time now. Even as they sign loftily worded documents year…
Abstract This article attempts to measure and define the level of “securitization” of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Japanese national politics by analyzing both the…
Abstract In 2007, the European Union (EU) and the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) started interregional negotiations on a free trade agreement, which…
