Abstract Maritime security concerns in the South China Sea are increasing for several reasons: higher volumes of shipping traffic, protection of exclusive economic zone resources,…
Country or Region: Southeast Asia
Abstract As maritime trading becomes an increasingly important element of the modern Chinese economy, concerns in Beijing are being raised about the safety of vital…
Abstract Maritime security in the South China Sea faces a number of challenges, ranging from lower-level nontraditional threats to traditional politicostrategic considerations, including the potential…
Abstract China’s recent claims to a large “U-shaped” area in the South China Sea, involving the disputed Spratly and Paracel Islands, has given rise to…
Abstract Despite its existence on the Chinese maps for more than six decades, the U-shaped line, as a traditional maritime boundary line of China in…
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…
Abstract This article argues that in the post-Cold War strategic transition in East Asia, ASEAN has helped to create a minimalist normative bargain among the…
Abstract Since the late 1980s, the scope of security policy has widened dramatically to encompass a wide range of ‘non-traditional’ threats. Southeast Asian states have…
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 The scholarship has argued that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) security management, outweighing democracy and economic interdependence, is the main force constituting…
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…
Abstract The role that peer pressure plays in efforts by member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in socializing a reluctant or…
Abstract ASEAN’s engagement with human rights is characterized by an action-identity gap; member states have created impressive regional commitments while continually violating rights domestically. This…
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…
Abstract East Asia has increased its formal institutional linkages in both the economic and security arenas. This article addresses three questions concerning this expansion. First,…
