Abstract The controversy in the Unites States on how to deal with the “fiscal cliff” revealed not just a deep ideological difference between the Democratic…
Topic: U.S. Foreign Policy
Abstract The Obama administration perceives the Asia-Pacific as a vital and dynamic region and thus prioritized it in its foreign policy agenda. Some scholars have…
Abstract Compared with the strained relationship during the Koizumi era, Japanese-Chinese relations today seem to prove that despite many bilateral problems, a solution can always…
Abstract The rise of China provides a major challenge to the United States, the undisputed hegemon in the Asia-Pacific region since the second world war.…
Abstract In August 2009, the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP), which had been in power since 1955, lost the general elections to a recently-formed party, the Democratic…
Abstract This article first examines specific recent issues facing the two countries, namely the Senkaku Islands fishing boat incident and the relocation of the Futenma…
Abstract The US–Japan alliance serves as the cornerstone of US security strategy in East Asia. The Bush administration remains supportive of efforts by Japan to…
Abstract This rejoinder to Daniel Twining’s article in the last issue of The International Spectator argues that both China and the United States recognise how…
Abstract The paper analyses the new geo-political and geo-economic strategic relationship between China and Southeast Asia. Is Chinese soft power encroachment into Southeast Asia creating…
Introduction In January of this year, Malcolm Turnbull made his first visit to the United States as the prime minister of Australia. Turnbull met with President…
Introduction The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs sat down with Bill Hayton, a longtime reporter for the BBC whose latest book, The South China Sea:…
Introduction Perhaps there is something about playing hard to get. The more difficulty existing participants have concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, the more eager…
Abstract This article examines the situations in the South China Sea (SCS) and East China Sea (ECS) and the reasons for recent political and strategic…
Abstract A great historical transition is underway from American-led Globalization 1.0 to Globalization 2.0—the interdependence of plural identities where no one power or alliance of…
Abstract Why did President Bill Clinton, while having linked human rights to China’s most-favoured-nation (MFN) status in 1993, delink the two issues in 1994, despite…
