Summary As the world’s most vital region, Asia embodies explosive economic growth, diverse political systems, vibrant societies, modernizing militaries, cutting-edge technologies, rich cultural traditions amid…
Topic: Foreign Policy
Abstract The rebalancing of power relations places China at a crossroads. One path the predominant pattern to date is China’s continued socialization into global norms,…
Abstract This article argues that processes of norm localization are producing an accommodation between the two principles. This accommodation involves the formal retention of both…
Abstract The logic of the democratic peace suggests that as two democracies, Japan and South Korea should not have militarized conflicts between them, while mutual…
Summary The problem of memory in China, Japan and Korea involves a surfeit rather than a deficit of memory, and the consequence of this excess…
Abstract This article seeks to understand what role China can and will play in global energy governance by examining how its domestic energy context shapes…
Summary This book provides a fairly comprehensive account of the evolution of India’s foreign policy from 1947 to the present day. It is organized primarily…
Summary One fifth of the world’s people live in India and Pakistan. Looking back on their first fifty years of independence, leading specialists on South…
Summary India’s foreign policy, out of the structural confines of the Cold War strategic framework, has become more expansive in defining its priorities over the…
Summary South Asia is home to a range of extremist groups from the jihadists of Pakistan to the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. In the…
Abstract With each passing day, Pakistan becomes an even more crucial player in world affairs. Home of the world’s second-largest Muslim population, epicenter of the…
Abstract Transparency and accountability are fundamental enablers for arms control and nuclear weapon safety and security. As noted in a United Nations-supported Weapons of Mass…
Abstract Tensions surrounding numerous maritime territorial disputes in East Asia have become a pressing challenge for U.S. foreign policymakers. Beginning around 2005-2006, long-disputed waters in…
Abstract The relationship between China and Taiwan is more stable in 2009 than it has been in years, but China has nonetheless not renounced its…
Summary Using major new documentary sources, this book tells the story of why and how China built its nuclear submarine flotilla and the impact of…
