Abstract This article contends that the Tsai administration will likely be positive for U.S.-Taiwan relations. While the partnership may well require more work than was…
Topic: U.S. Foreign Policy
Abstract The “Okinawa problem” to which the APJ has paid so much attention over recent years continues to evolve, and the contradiction between the national…
Abstract Sino‐US relations are the most problematic of all the great power relationships in the Asia‐Pacific region, and in that relationship it is the question…
Abstract This article provides a critical discussion of Okinawa’s role in serving American and Japanese strategic interests. Since the end of World War II Okinawa…
Abstract The next U.S. president will inherit a security environment in which the United States confronts mounting threats with increasingly constrained resources, diminished stature, and…
Abstract In April, I laid a wreath at the Manila American Cemetery, in the Philippines, where some 17,000 Americans are buried. Looking up at the…
Introduction A quarter century after the Cold War ended, critics have renewed their calls for the United States to abandon its existing grand strategy, which…
Abstract While power asymmetry typically defines security relationships between allies, there exist other forms of asymmetry that influence alliance politics. In order to illustrate how…
Abstract The Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989 was one of the most influential events in the last few decades on China’s relationship with the…
Abstract China has long upheld a neutral, if not opposing, stance to Korean unification, a stance which could be largely defined as the political risks…
Abstract President Obama’s stewardship of US foreign policy is continuing his predecessors’ success in maintaining regional stability and the US pre-eminence in the region. Obama…
Abstract Many contemporary academics and policy analysts have revisited the Anglo-German rivalry before 1914 to predict what may await China and the United States in…
Abstract Scholars and officials persistently criticize China for low transparency in its military affairs. Why does Beijing exacerbate the asymmetric information problem, even though this…
Abstract This article examines the formulation and implementation of American grand strategy under the Obama administration, and how the “pivot to Asia” functions within this…
Abstract What specific forms of reasoning underlie the US approach to Asia, what downside risks do they imply, and to what extent can they be…
