Summary In the twenty-first century, the concept of internationalisation remains a crucial tool for understanding the dynamics of globalising processes. It draws attention to the…
Topic: Foreign Policy
Summary The relationship between the United States and China is one of the most important issues in the twenty-first century, and is, ultimately, hostage to…
Summary Since the 1990s, questions of Japanese wartime conduct, apologies for aggression, and compensation to former victims of the country’s imperial policies, have been brought…
Summary Since the end of the Cold War, Japan’s security environment has changed significantly. While, on the global level, the United States is still Japan’s…
Summary International Relations and Identity examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of the international beyond the notion of states. Providing…
Summary With the rupture of the UN Security Council in March 2003 over the US spearheaded intervention in Iraq, the attempts made to subject the…
Summary This volume explores how difference is constructed, manifested, mobilised and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuelled by neoliberal economic growth in the recent years.…
Summary The rhetoric of armed social welfare has become prominent in military and counterinsurgency circuits with profound consequences for the meanings of democracy, citizenship, and…
Summary From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two…
Summary This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to…
Summary Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe China is antimilitary and reluctant…
From the publisher: This book uses empirical evidence from various case studies to examine the relationship between territorial and regional autonomy, the nation-state and ethnic conflict…
From the publisher: This volume considers recent studies that move beyond primordialism and its antithesis, social constructivism, to search for new insights to illuminate the nature…
Abstract This article reviews and explains Chinese attitudes towards the use of force in international affairs, especially from the perspective of strategic culture. The author…
Summary Developing a framework to study “what makes a region,” Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and international relations. He…
