Abstract There is doubt about whether the ‘democratic peace’ proposition applies in Asia. I theoretically deconstruct regime type into institutional components including political competition, constraint…
Country or Region: Japan
Abstract Since its democratization, South Korea’s foreign relations with Japan have become increasingly volatile. We investigate the diversionary incentives behind these fluctuations in South Korean…
Continue reading Kagotani, Koji, Kan Kimura, and Jeffrey R. Weber
Abstract China and Japan have been deepening economic interdependence over the last two decades, while China has recently shown territorial ambitions and initiated disputes with…
Summary This new title from Routledge, edited by Professor Leszek Buszynski, includes the key literature on Asia Pacific Security. Arranged across four volumes, the collection…
Summary Since the end of the Cold War China and Japan have faced each other as powers of relatively equal strength for the first time…
From the publisher: This article is composed of three major sections. In the first section, I explain why the pessimistic predictions of the 1990s about a…
Summary The rising demand for energy, the higher costs of oil and gas, and the association of fossil fuels with adverse climate change have all…
From the publisher: The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post–Cold War security…
From the publisher: This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global…
Continue reading Dutton, Peter, Robert Ross, and Øystein Tunsjø
Abstract Within the framework of the liberal theory of peace, the author analyzes maritime delimitation disputes that have occurred between Japan and China in the…
Summary At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and…
Summary The financial crisis that swept across East Asia during 1997–1998 was devastating not only in its economic impact but also in its social and…
Continue reading MacIntyre, Andrew, T. J. Pempel, and John Ravenhill
Summary Since the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997–98, East Asian economies have sought to make themselves less vulnerable to global financial markets by transforming the…
Summary In Asia’s Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan’s paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Why…
Abstract Russia has tied the success of its efforts to reclaim great power status in Asia to its success in selling China, Japan, and South…
