Summary The Preventive Defense Project conducted the latest in its series of Washington WMD Workshops entitled “Iran Plan B Design” on May 22, 2006. The…
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Abstract U.S. scholars and policymakers commonly worry that a lack of “energy security” hurts U.S. national security, yet few have analyzed the links between states’…
Abstract The United States needs support from other states to carry out global governance, particularly from rising powers such as China and Russia. Securing cooperation…
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Abstract Robert Ross of Boston College considers the prospects for a U.S.-China war over Taiwan. Ross praises the first Bush administration and the Clinton administration…
Abstract Recent developments in Chinese politics and defense policy indicate that China will soon embark on an ambitious maritime policy that will include construction of…
Summary North Korea’s foreign relations are a blend of contradiction and complexity. They start from the incongruity between Pyongyang’s highly touted policy of juche, or self-reliance, and North…
Summary This book explores Korea’s place in terms of multiple levels and domains of interaction pertaining to foreign-policy behaviors and relations with the four regional/global…
Abstract Robert Ross of Boston College reaches a more optimistic conclusion about the future of East Asian security. He focuses on the role of geography…
Summary Defining and conceptualizing Northeast Asia’s security complex poses unique quandaries. The security architecture in Northeast Asia to date has been predominately U.S.-dominated bilateral alliances,…
Summary Is Northeast Asia primed for peace or ripe for great-power rivalry? In this turbulent region, all the world-order challenges of arms control and disarmament,…
Summary Have Japan’s relative economic decline and China’s rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power,…
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Summary Most studies of Asia-Pacific security are marked by pessimism and continuing belief in the virtues of a balance of power. Pacific Asia? goes against…
Summary This book is the first systematic examination of the emerging arms race in Asia. The global trade in arms is to a large degree…
Abstract A cursory examination of the post-Cold War record shows significant successes in sustaining nonproliferation. Nevertheless, major challenges do exist, especially in the inability of…
Summary Despite the rise of ‘new’ security threats like terrorism, cyber-war and piracy, the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons still hangs over the world.…
