Summary The Basel Accord – now commonly referred to as “Basel I” – has exerted a profound influence on international financial politics and domestic prudential…
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Summary The oil industry is the world’s largest commercial enterprise. Its extent is global; international issues are consistently influenced by considerations of oil production and…
Abstract The end of Great Britain’s standing as a superpower conjures up a frightening picture of how a post-American world might come about, not by…
Abstract A U.S. initiative treating Russia as a serious East Asian partner, engaging in a real dialogue on security threats there, and a strong public…
Abstract South Korea, China and Japan ratified the Law of the Sea Convention and proclaimed their respective exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the late 1990s.…
Abstract Naval programs are back on the agenda in East Asia, after a lull in defence spending in the wake of the Asian financial crisis.…
Abstract China’s rapid rise in economic and military power has occurred alongside the apparent decline of Japan, which has traditionally been America’s closest ally in…
Abstract According to integration theory, growing economic interdependence between China and Japan should have spilled over into more cordial political relations. The opposite occurred, as…
Summary This book examines the critical changes to the Asia-Pacific security architecture emerging in the context of shifts in the global order as the Obama…
Summary In the 1980s the performance of Japan’s economy was an international success story, and led many economists to suggest that the 1990s would be…
Summary With featuring far-reaching diversities and disparities among the regional states in their political, economic and social systems and cultural and religious orientations, East Asia…
Summary The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades. But so, it must be said, has Japan…
Summary In the twenty-first century, the concept of internationalisation remains a crucial tool for understanding the dynamics of globalising processes. It draws attention to the…
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Summary North Korea’s contemporary relations with Japan have been fraught with tension. Tactics employed by Pyongyang have included abductions of Japanese citizens, missile launches over…
Summary Since the 1990s, questions of Japanese wartime conduct, apologies for aggression, and compensation to former victims of the country’s imperial policies, have been brought…
