Abstract: In spite of fiscal pressure at home and China’s continued rise abroad, the United States shows no signs of reversing its costly grand strategy…
Topic: U.S. Foreign Policy
Abstract: While the Obama administration’s Asia rebalance strategy received some praise from scholars and practitioners, it generated three problems that caused the USA to overlook…
Abstract: With the rise of China and relative decline of the United States, the question of whether both countries will fall into the so-called “Thucydides’…
Abstract: Economic growth and arms race are interesting phenomena in Southeast Asia. Contrary to the view of a majority of scholars that arms race has…
Abstract: Since the normalization of China-U.S. relations in 1979, there have been various disputes and friction between both countries. But their common interests far outweigh…
Abstract: This paper examines the interactions between the USA and the expanding ecosystem of East Asian and Asia-Pacific institutions. Concentrating on the period since the…
Abstract: East Asia has many distinctive features that set it apart from other comparable regions, not least attitudes to regional development and cooperation. Despite a…
Abstract: The Indo-Pacific region’s security landscape is unfolding in highly uncertain and potentially explosive ways. The postwar American-led network of bilateral alliances – underpinned by…
Abstract: Based on the premise that perception operates either as a catalyst or a constraint for a hegemonic war, this study examines ‘national perceptions’ (i.e.…
Abstract: Twenty years from now, the Chinese economy might be twice as large as that of the United States. Since great powers have always claimed…
Abstract: From 2011 to 2016, then US President Barack Obama vigorously pursued the policy of strategic rebalancing to Asia. The policy’s underlying goal was to…
Abstract: The Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) has not only changed how the USA engages in warfare but also how it maintains its military supremacy…
Abstract: Since the 1980s, Japan’s war memory has strained its relations with South Korea and China, to a less degree, the USA. Two of the…
Abstract: Liberalists have argued that increased economic interdependence will deter the likelihood of war as opportunity costs of a military conflict will not be fashionable…
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…
