Abstract This article presents results from a nationally representative survey conducted in Taiwan in November 2011 that explores Taiwanese attitudes toward China and the world.…
Topic: Foreign Policy
Abstract Other than during the Civil War of 1945–1949, Taiwan has never been part of a Chinese state ruled by Han Chinese in Mainland China.…
Abstract In 2010–12, Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated without the Yasukuni Shrine or Chinese human rights violations in the forefront. To improve relations, attention should turn to…
Abstract Focusing on the US Clinton and Bush administration’s dissimilar security policies and practices toward the Korean Peninsula, this article aims to examine how the…
Abstract Northeast Asia has emerged as the center of gravity in contemporary international relations (IR), partly owing to China’s rise, over the past two decades.…
Abstract Takashi Inoguchi once stated that Japan’s international relations theory is characterized by its exclusive disciplinary orientation toward constructivism. Nishida Kitaro is widely recognized as…
Summary What role does identity play in foreign policy? How might identity impact on Japan’s relations with South Korea? This book takes identity theorizing in…
Abstract This article seeks to contribute both to the scholarly debate on Japan’s territorial dispute with USSR/Russia and to the broader body of academic literature…
Abstract The role that peer pressure plays in efforts by member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in socializing a reluctant or…
Abstract ASEAN’s engagement with human rights is characterized by an action-identity gap; member states have created impressive regional commitments while continually violating rights domestically. This…
Abstract Chinese and Korean protests over “revisionist” Japanese histories of World War II are well known. The impact of contested Chinese and US histories of…
Summary This book is the first major exploration of Indian political economy using a constructivist approach. Arguing that India’s open-economy policy was made, justified, and…
From the publisher: There is growing interest among scholars and advocates in the way that the nascent norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is diffusing…
From the publisher: Numerous academic works have critiqued Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme for being mercantilist and failing to promote democratization and human rights (Orr…
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 conditions…
