Summary China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been hailed as the biggest coming-out party in the history of capitalism. Its membership eventually…
Topic: Foreign Policy
From the publisher: With the Gulf War as a trigger, Japan began to make a humanitarian contribution by dispatching the Self Defense Forces to United Nations…
Summary With China’s rise as a major player in international affairs, how have its policies toward developing countries changed? And how do those policies now…
Summary Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the “workshop of the world.”…
Summary Bringing together substantial essays by leading scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the politics of the People’s Republic of…
Abstract This paper presents some scenarios that, if they were to come to pass, could result in military conflict with China over the next thirty…
Summary China’s Political System examines how the government of China is affected by ongoing efforts to harmonize its unique culture with external influences and ideas.…
Abstract In recent years, China’s power and influence relative to those of other great states have outgrown the expectations of even its own leaders. A…
Abstract For years, China’s leaders lay low; they now realize that fulfilling their needs at home demands a more activist global strategy. As China’s economic…
Abstract The article discusses foreign relations and security policy between Japan and the U.S. The author reflects on the economic growth and rebuilding of infrastructure…
Abstract The article discusses the politics and government of Japan, as of January 2010. It focuses on the results of the previous year’s national elections,…
Abstract Since the end of the Cold War, American policy makers have operated under the flawed assumption of an inexorable march of history guaranteeing perpetual…
Abstract In this essay, the author looks first at the features of the American postwar order. After this, the author discusses the rise of unipolarity…
Abstract Theories of the product cycle, hegemony, and the world system are used to analyze the creation and development of the Northeast Asian political economy…
Abstract In this article entitled “Getting Asia Wrong,” David King makes two major arguments. First, European-derived theories in general and realist theories in particular frequently…
