Abstract All the theories that explain post-Mao China’s economic success tend to attribute it to one or several “successful” policies or institutions of the Chinese…
Abstract All the theories that explain post-Mao China’s economic success tend to attribute it to one or several “successful” policies or institutions of the Chinese…
Abstract Whether and how India and China manage their futures as rising powers will critically shape international relations in the twenty-first century. These two countries…
Abstract The dispute over ownership of islands, maritime boundaries, jurisdiction, perhaps as much as 100 billion barrels of oil equivalent, and other nonliving and living…
Abstract In this analysis of the Senkaku/Diaoyu, including the US role, I employ the framework of Western theories of international relations (IR). The analysis turns…
Abstract US-China relations recently have gone through ups and downs. I examine changes in public opinion that underpin the constrained relationship. In fact, public perceptions…
Abstract Since 1945, the United States (US) has served as a focal point of both Left-wing and Right-wing Japanese nationalism. Both sides argued that the…
Abstract Why did the leaders of four very different countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—decide to hold a summit in 2009 in Yekaterinburg, thus transforming “the…
Abstract China’s domestic climate-change policy has changed remarkably since 1988. In the late 1980s, the central government viewed climate change as a highly scientific, foreign…
Abstract In this article I seek to improve the dominant neorealist analysis of China’s rise. I offer a neoclassical realist analytical framework in order to…
Abstract The contested Sino-Korean border issue has received very little study. Making use of presently available sources in the several different archives in China and…
Abstract Based on newly available Chinese and Russian archival documents and oral histories, this article examines the origins and evolution of Soviet policies concerning China’s…
Abstract During 2009–2011, Chinese writings on South Korea and the history of the Korean nation grew more somber in tone. They widened the national identity…
Abstract Nowhere is China’s aid program both more important and yet less understood than with North Korea. This article examines two puzzles: China’s aid to…
Abstract Over the last thirty years, China has experienced tremendous growth, with many commentators attributing the rapid development to the “China Model” (CM) or the…
Abstract China has basked for some time in the achievement of having promoted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), now in its eleventh year. Without a…