Abstract: This article examines Japan’s role conception in its multilateral commitments to the Asia-Pacific after the global financial crisis in 2008. The Hatoyama government launched…
Topic: Maritime Security
Abstract: Japan has a national interest in the South China Sea issue. Although its direct commitment is ultimately limited in a material sense due to…
Abstract: As an island country in the Pacific region, it is natural for Japan to have diplomatic relationships with neighboring island countries. By the early…
Abstract: The Sino-Indian rivalry features an increasingly prominent maritime dimension amidst the countries’ naval buildups and deployments in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and Western…
Abstract: Chinese President Xi Jinping has touted an Asian security architecture in which “it is for the people of Asia to run the affairs of…
Summary: Vietnam’s military modernization is increasingly focused on deterring China from seizing disputed territory in the South China Sea. By developing and fielding select capabilities—including…
Abstract: The South China Sea disputes involve both island and maritime claims among sovereign states and the issue has long been a point of debate…
Preview: we argue in this article, while India endorses the idea of the Indo-Pacific rhetorically, three issues prevent actual operationalization of the concept for New…
Preview: This article begins by describing the broad strategic challenge that North Korea, once armed with an operational nuclear weapons capability, poses to the United…
Preview: On January 9, 2017, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced that the country had successfully carried out the first-ever flight test of a nuclear-capable,…
Abstract: Security Strategies of Middle Powers in the Asia Pacific examines what drives the different regional security strategies of four middle powers in the Asia…
Abstract: The claim that the United States seeks primacy – a concept distinct from military superiority – in the Asia-Pacific is fundamentally wrong.
Abstract: Bound by the strategic primacy of the Indian Ocean and by the constraints on its sea-power projection, India’s interests sit uneasily with those of…
Continue reading Roy-Chaudhury, Rahul, and Kate Sullivan de Estrada
Abstract: China employs three sea forces to defend and advance its maritime claims – the People’s Liberation Army Navy, the China Coast Guard and the…
Abstract: It is the policy of the Chinese Communist Party that the country should become a great maritime power. In this article, Martin N Murphy…
