Abstract Alliance coordination involves a multiplicity of equilibria, the resolution of which depends on institutions and knowledge known as focal-point effects. Since the end of…
Country or Region: Japan
Abstract Takashi Inoguchi once stated that Japan’s international relations theory is characterized by its exclusive disciplinary orientation toward constructivism. Nishida Kitaro is widely recognized as…
Abstract As part of its movement toward ‘normal country’ status, Japan has begun to engage in a policy of alliance/alignment restructuring and diversification. This is…
Summary Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East,…
Summary Northeast Asia, where the interests of three major nuclear powers and the world’s two largest economies converge around the unstable pivot of the Korean…
Abstract Japan’s vital interests, both its energy security and US alliance, are at stake in the Middle East. Change in Japan’s Middle East policy is…
Abstract Since the 1990s, Japan and the Republic of Korea have chosen dissimilar policy options with respect to the US-led missile defense (MD) systems in…
Summary What role does identity play in foreign policy? How might identity impact on Japan’s relations with South Korea? This book takes identity theorizing in…
Abstract This article seeks to contribute both to the scholarly debate on Japan’s territorial dispute with USSR/Russia and to the broader body of academic literature…
Summary In brute-force struggles for survival, such as the two World Wars, disorganization and divisions within an enemy alliance are to one’s own advantage. However,…
Abstract In this article, I ask what might be the effect of international trade on interstate conflict in Asia and the Pacific. Overall, the associations…
Summary The dynamics of Northeast Asia have traditionally been considered primarily in military and hard security terms or alternatively along their economic dimensions. This book…
Abstract Tensions between Japan and its neighbors pose a significant problem for the viability of Japan’s strategic ‘dual hedge’ between China and the United States.…
Abstract Chinese and Korean protests over “revisionist” Japanese histories of World War II are well known. The impact of contested Chinese and US histories of…
Abstract The recent proliferation of regional trade agreements in the East Asian region can be seen as the most notable development in the region’s trading…
