Abstract The logic of the democratic peace suggests that as two democracies, Japan and South Korea should not have militarized conflicts between them, while mutual…
Country or Region: Japan
Summary The problem of memory in China, Japan and Korea involves a surfeit rather than a deficit of memory, and the consequence of this excess…
Abstract Insisting that Japan is a great power, as Prime Minister Abe and others have, sets Tokyo up for failure by setting unrealistic and unrealizable…
Abstract Conventional narratives have largely ignored that, in Chinese eyes, the rich fishing grounds of the East and South China seas are as critical to…
Abstract Although news accounts cover the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands issue, rarely is historical background given. This article focuses on Taiwanese diplomatic documents dating from after World…
Abstract The sea sets East Asia apart from other regional systems that influence international economic, political and military affairs. Alessio Patalano argues that in East…
Abstract The East China Sea (ECS) is gaining an increasingly central role in Sino-Japanese relations as it is crucial to the economic development and political…
Abstract This article analyzes the most recent phase of Japan’s security policy reform, focusing on its shifting priorities towards the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the…
Abstract Most international relations (IR) research on the role of collective memory and representations of the past gives the impression that these primarily matter for…
Summary How has world order changed since the Cold War ended? Do we live in an age of American empire, or is global power shifting…
Summary New security challenges are increasingly important in U.S. security planning. Transnational threats that do not arise from national rivalries or involve geopolitical competition—climate change,…
Summary The second of Gilbert Rozman’s contributed volumes on East Asian national identity traces how efforts to draw a sharp divide between one country’s identity…
Summary This rigorous comparative study of national identity in Japan, South Korea, and China examines countries with long histories influenced by Confucian thought, surging nationalism,…
Abstract International safeguards is the system of measures put in place by the International Atomic Energy Agency and states to ensure nuclear programs remain dedicated…
From the Publisher: This study will examine the determinants of local Japanese government involvement in decentralized international cooperation by taking an actor-specific approach to three outstanding…
