Summary The majority of Taiwan residents now have Taiwan-centered national identities, viewing the island as separate and independent from the Chinese mainland. Thus, few people…
Topic: Foreign Policy
If Taiwan is not a sovereign state, what is it? On an island about the size of the state of West Virginia, Taiwan’s people have…
For China, Taiwan is next in line to be unified with the People’s Republic after Hong Kong in 1997. China’s claim on Taiwan is of…
Abstract This article argues that India’s foreign policy preferences cannot be understood without referring to its state identity as it has evolved over time. The…
Abstract Strategic historians and practitioners associated with the 32-day Sino-Indian border conflict of autumn 1962 have for long argued that India’s appeal for US military…
Summary This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the security discourse of Chinese policy elites on the major powers in East Asia in…
Summary In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for…
Absract Many commentators wonder whether China is a status quo power that will continue to comply with regional and international norms or whether it is…
Summary New Dimensions of Chinese Foreign Policy is an in-depth analysis of China’s new place in international affairs. Taking Hu Jintao’s proposal for “peaceful development” as…
Abstract A series of moves in China’s foreign policies since the global financial crisis in 2008 seems to suggest that China is now more confident…
Abstract Over the course of the last decade, students of Chinese foreign relations have engaged in an extended, and often rather breathless, debate over the…
Summary The focus of the book is the wide stretch of water- and sea-ways connecting the coasts of Bengal and Sri Lanka to the coast…
Summary A fresh historical and theoretical exploration of the much-debated, but still elusive, question of the Korean divide. In contrast to much of the literature on…
Summary The Development of Modern South Korea provides a comprehensive analysis of South Korean modernization by examining the dimensions of state formation, capitalist development and nationalism. Taking a…
Abstract The middle powers literature often conflates role identity (national self-conception) of middle power states with role performance (foreign policies), while neglecting East Asia as…
