Summary This Trends in Southeast Asia series — now revamped and redesigned — acts as a platform for serious analyses written by selected authors who…
Country or Region: China
Abstract Competition and conflict in the South China Sea involves many nations due to its resources and vital sea lanes. However, it is China which…
Abstract Thailand’s domestic political crisis that began in the final year of the Thaksin Shinawatra administration (2001–06), culminating in the military coup of September 2006…
Abstract This paper examines the regional security implications of China’s realpolitik approach in its territorial claim over the South China Sea. It observes that China…
Abstract Ever since the Vietnamese nation-state emerged as an independent entity in the first millennium it has had to contend with “the tyranny of geography”.…
Abstract This article analyses Vietnamese strategies to constrain China in the South China Sea. It tests Brantly Womack’s theory of asymmetry as a framework for…
Summary Shadow of the Dragon examines the long historical cycle of tribute, domination, and independence that has shaped Sino-Vietnamese bilateral relations. After generations of bloody struggle…
Abstract This article examines Vietnam’s strategy toward China since 1990. The study suggests that Vietnam’s China policy has been informed by a changing mix of…
Summary In their three thousand years of interaction, China and Vietnam have been through a full range of relationships. Throughout all these fluctuations the one…
Summary Although the Chinese and the Vietnamese were Cold War allies in wars against the French and the Americans, their alliance collapsed and they ultimately…
Abstract The middle powers literature often conflates role identity (national self-conception) of middle power states with role performance (foreign policies), while neglecting East Asia as…
Abstract Nuclear energy is an integral part of China’s energy strategy and will increasingly contribute to China’s total energy supply. China has more than twenty…
Abstract In this new Lowy Institute Paper, our Visiting Fellow, Dr Milton Osborne, evaluates the potentially huge social and environmental risks for the Mekong River…
Abstract This paper critically analyses one of Southeast Asia’s gravest social and environmental challenges, the damming and dredging of the Mekong River system. This Paper…
Abstract Already the world’s second largest energy consumer, China has accounted for more than a third of the increase in global oil demand since 2000.…
