Abstract I argue that there is a distinct and longstanding regional structure in East Asia that is of at least equal importance to the global…
Country or Region: Japan
Abstract Until March 11, with the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident approaching — and memories of that disaster receding — safety concerns no longer…
Abstract Confronted during the first decade of the twenty-first century with the rapidly burgeoning US-Indian security partnership and then by the emergence of the India-Japan…
Abstract This article examines recent developments in the East China Sea maritime disputes, focusing primarily on the Principled Consensus agreed on by China and Japan…
Abstract This article discusses one of the most difficult disputes in the world, the territorial dispute over the Tiaoyu Islands. This dispute has defied solution…
Abstract Can economic interdependence reduce conflicts among states in East Asia? The so-called ‘cold politics and hot economics’ has become a defining feature of Sino-Japanese…
Abstract Energy issues have recently moved to centre stage on the world arena. Oil and gas prices increased significantly during 2003 and 2004, and continued…
Abstract This article reexamines the conventional wisdom that characterizes Sino-Japanese energy relations as predominantly competitive, but views Sino-Japanese environmental relations as essentially cooperative. Using sociological…
Abstract China and Japan used to have good energy cooperation before China switched into a net oil importer in the mid-1990s, but the recent years have witnessed…
Abstract This article explores the relationship between diversification and energy security risks. It uses portfolio theory to conceptualise energy security as an insurance mechanism against…
Abstract In 2010–12, Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated without the Yasukuni Shrine or Chinese human rights violations in the forefront. To improve relations, attention should turn to…
Summary The ways in which law has interacted with concrete interests to reshape Japan’s foreign trade politics at the start of the twenty-first century can…
Abstract The conventional view in the field of international political economy – that greater economic interdependence creates an incentive for active foreign policy engagement –…
Abstract Northeast Asia has emerged as the center of gravity in contemporary international relations (IR), partly owing to China’s rise, over the past two decades.…
Abstract This paper charts the growth and patterns of free trade agreement (FTA) activity in the Asia-Pacific, discussing the extent to which there has been…
