Abstract This article seeks to analyse the strength and weaknesses of the three main international relations (IR) approaches, namely, neo-realist, liberal institutionalist, and constructivist frameworks,…
Topic: Foreign Policy
Abstract Vietnam’s membership of ASEAN was driven by pragmatic reasons of economic growth, political independence and regime survival in a post-Cold War environment. But in…
Summary Changing national identities have transformed the China-Taiwan and Korean conflicts. Democratization in Taiwan and South Korea, and liberalization in China, have forced leaders to…
Abstract Some Japanese scholars such as Ikegami Masako suggest that the Dokdo issue can and should be resolved using a liberalist approach. This approach, however,…
Summary In 2002, North Korea precipitated a major international crisis when it revealed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program and announced its withdrawal…
Abstract The summit meeting between the two Korean heads of state, which took place in Pyongyang in June 2000, constitutes a major turning point in…
Abstract The tendency for Chinese foreign policy elites to securitize culture in international relations by portraying it as a zone of intense contestation with other…
Abstract During his tenure, President George W. Bush touted the East Asian democratic experience as a positive model for democratization in the Middle East. Contrary…
Summary Once a model of Muslim enlightenment, Pakistan is now facing a lethal Islamist threat. Many believe this is due to Pakistan’s partnership with the…
Summary Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India’s Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in…
Abstract This article explores the following question: are India’s relations with Pakistan more confrontational and less cooperative when the political elite constituting the government espouses…
Abstract Since the late 1990s, Japan has sent increasing numbers of its military forces overseas. It has also assumed a more active military role in…
Abstract The United States needs support from other states to carry out global governance, particularly from rising powers such as China and Russia. Securing cooperation…
Abstract In this article, Alexander Wendt grapples with the question of whether state action is shaped by structure or process and institutions. For neo-realists, state…
Summary Drawing on philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a cultural theory of international politics that contrasts with the realist mainstream.…
