Summary Defining and conceptualizing Northeast Asia’s security complex poses unique quandaries. The security architecture in Northeast Asia to date has been predominately U.S.-dominated bilateral alliances,…
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Summary Is Northeast Asia primed for peace or ripe for great-power rivalry? In this turbulent region, all the world-order challenges of arms control and disarmament,…
Summary Have Japan’s relative economic decline and China’s rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power,…
Summary Most studies of Asia-Pacific security are marked by pessimism and continuing belief in the virtues of a balance of power. Pacific Asia? goes against…
Summary Traditionally, stability in Asia has relied on America’s bilateral alliances with Japan, Australia, and the Republic of Korea. Yet in recent years, emergent and…
Summary The rivalry between Japan and China has a long and sometimes brutal history, and they continue to eye each other warily as the balance…
Summary The seminal text on neorealist analysis! From Theory of International Politics: National politics is the realm of authority, of administration, and of law. International…
Summary This book is the first systematic examination of the emerging arms race in Asia. The global trade in arms is to a large degree…
Summary The Asian Pacific has emerged as one of the most important regions in the world, causing scholars to pay increased attention to the various…
Summary “A superb book….Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers.”—The National Interest, Barry R. Posen A decade…
Summary Kapor argues that explanations of international relations in Asia in the post-Second World War period have relied too much on the Cold War as…
Abstract A cursory examination of the post-Cold War record shows significant successes in sustaining nonproliferation. Nevertheless, major challenges do exist, especially in the inability of…
Summary While policy makers and scholars have long devoted considerable attention to strategies like deterrence, which threaten others with unacceptable consequences, such threat-based strategies are…
Summary Despite the rise of ‘new’ security threats like terrorism, cyber-war and piracy, the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons still hangs over the world.…
Summary Why is nuclear energy in Asia accepted as part of the solution to power shortages and environmental pollution, whilst still regarded with suspicion in…
