Abstract A change in U.S. administrations can often result in significant policy shifts. However, in the case of South Asia, with marked exceptions, U.S. policy…
Country or Region: Southeast Asia
Abstract The Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) is a part of China’s experiment in scaling up economic corridors across vast swathes of diverse economic geographies.…
BRI signals a shift in China’s foreign policy and a departure from its long-held low-profile approach. Since Xi came to power in 2012, the Chinese…
Abstract Like other proposed mega-FTAs, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is intended to address twenty-first-century trade issues. The attributes of the RCEP negotiations are…
Abstract The rise of mega-regionalism in the Asia-Pacific has become a significant development for the region itself as well as the global trading system. Europe,…
Abstract There is the perception in Japan that a reforming Myanmar is Japan’s “final frontier” in Asia. Indeed, Japan is enthusiastically seeking a larger political…
Summary There is a quiet drama playing out in American foreign policy far from the dark contours of upheaval in the Middle East and South…
Abstract This paper explores China’s responses to mega-regional negotiations, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. By examining Chinese elite discourse, the…
Introduction The South China Sea has come to involve important stakes for all involved. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is no different—though its…
Abstract High stakes are involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations: the United States seems to be on the verge of redirecting Asian regionalism…
Abstract Asia–Pacific regionalism is quite different from its counterparts in other regions of the world. Most notably, it displays an extremely low level of institutionalization…
Abstract The international order in East Asia has been anchored on four pillars. The first pillar is the 1952 San Francisco peace treaty between the…
Abstract The aim of this article is to analyze the rationale and likely impacts of Chinese military modernization, which seems focused to work as China’s…
Abstract Although the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) has made significant progress providing confidence-building mechanisms, it remains inconsistent in moving towards a shared goal of collective…
Abstract A strategic choice is fast approaching between accepting China’s sub-regional hegemony and pushing back through strategies that would impose costs. During the course of…
