Summary The Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia is designed to serve as a comprehensive reference guide to politics in Asia. Covering East, South, Southeast,…
Country or Region: Japan
Summary A vital component of the interdependent global economy, maritime transit routes are nowhere more critical than those traversing the Indian Ocean and the Western…
Summary Since the end of the Cold War, China has experienced several notable interstate crises: the 1999 ’embassy bombing’ incident, the 2001 EP-3 mid-air collision…
Summary As tensions between China and Japan increase, including over the disputed islands in the East China Sea, Japan has adopted under Prime Minister Abe…
Summary This balanced and deeply informed book provides a comprehensive account of China’s Asia policy since the Cold War. Lowell Dittmer traces the PRC’s policy…
Summary This book examines the foreign and security policies adopted by China and Japan since the 1970s in their competition over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in…
Summary Now in its new and fully updated third edition, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific continues to provide a compelling analysis of a…
Continue reading Connors, Michael Kelly, Rémy Davison, and Jörn Dosch
Summary Tracing the genesis of the Senkaku Islands in the memoirs of history, and its potential future, in the backdrop of the East China Sea’s…
Summary The Routledge Handbook of Africa–Asia Relations is the first handbook aimed at studying the interactions between countries across Africa and Asia in a multi-disciplinary…
Summary Asia after the Developmental State presents cutting-edge analyses of state-society transformation in Asia under globalisation. The volume incorporates a variety of political economy and…
Continue reading Carroll, Toby, D. S. L. Jarvis, and Richard Stubbs, eds
Summary Japan’s Foreign Relations in Asia has been specifically designed to introduce students to Japan’s foreign relations in Asia since 1990, a period in which…
Abstract Amid the soured bilateral relations with South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has taken swift steps toward transforming Japan into a more active…
Abstract This paper examines recent reversals and divergences in Japan’s and Korea’s free-trade agreement (FTA) patterns and strategies through the cases of the Trans-Pacific Partnership…
Abstract We examine the influence of political economy reforms on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations using a two-level game analysis. Our main findings are summarized…
Preview One of the distinctive characteristics of Japan’s national security policy in recent years is the strengthening of its security relationships with Asia-Pacific countries and…
