Summary Economic diplomacy is back. Globalization and shifting power balances between the West and East Asia are creating new incentives and conditions for governments in…
Topic: Political Economy
Summary China has become the world’s second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world’s largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies…
Abstract This paper seeks to explore and explain the process through which Taiwan utilizes free trade – both at multilateral and bilateral levels – in…
Abstract Recent patterns suggest that states are using economic sanctions more frequently. However, sanctions fail to achieve intended political or economic goals most of the…
Abstract In this article I explore why US approaches to the trade-security nexus in postwar East Asia have unfolded in three critical stages: securitization, desecuritization,…
Abstract In this article I consider the links between foreign aid and policy transformations in aid-receiving countries, with a particular reference to the South Korean…
Abstract Korea and China have maintained cordial economic relations for the past twenty years based on remarkable expansion of trade and investment flows. However, some…
Abstract This article proposes a theory that the strategic preferences of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members should be a key variable in…
Abstract Institutions do not always matter. They can make it easier for states to deal with non-traditional security threats and alleviate arms races, but they…
Abstract The idea that China’s rise, and more specifically its increased material capabilities, are about to produce a power shift in East Asia raises the…
Abstract This article explores the ways in which trade bilateralism, the Sino-Japanese rivalry, and cross-regional free-trade agreements (FTAs) could push East Asia closer to an…
Abstract The authors offers their perspectives regarding concerns raised by the public on both sides of the Taiwan Strait whether Taiwanese president Ma Ying-Jeou will…
Abstract The Islamic Republic of Iran has pursued full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). In doing so, Iran has appeared to be unfazed…
Abstract Japan–South Korea security relations seemed to be going so well. The two countries, along with their American ally, met on the sidelines of the…
Abstract Ensuring access to ever larger quantities of foreign oil has been a focus of debate in China since the late 1990s, when the country’s…
