Summary Vietnam is a developing country in southeast Asia of 93 million people. Since 1986, it has been modernizing its once centrally planned economy and…
Country or Region: Vietnam
Summary After communist North Vietnam’s victory over U.S.-backed South Vietnam in 1975, the United States and Vietnam had minimal relations until the mid-1990s. Since the…
U.S.-Vietnamese cooperation on nuclear energy and nonproliferation has grown in recent years along with closer bilateral economic, military, and diplomatic ties. In 2010, the two…
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Abstract International safeguards is the system of measures put in place by the International Atomic Energy Agency and states to ensure nuclear programs remain dedicated…
Abstract How is East Asia responding to the rising China? Pertinent literature suggests that explicit balancing or containment has been rare and engagement, if not…
From the Publisher: This book is, in essence, about incentives: the incentives for competing societal interest groups to cooperate with each other to benefit from a…
Abstract Over the last fifteen years, the steady rise of China’s naval capabilities has received a level of attention unmatched since the Soviet navy’s expansion…
Abstract Despite worries that ASEAN is becoming weak, the organization remains as strong as it ever was, given the parameters of its design. Its member…
Summary This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development and operations of the navies of South-East Asia since the end of World War II.…
Summary Variously described by historians and thinkers as the ‘most terrible century in Western history’, ‘a century of massacres and wars’ and the ‘most violent…
Summary From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two…
Summary Ever since China and Vietnam resumed diplomatic contacts and reopened the border in 1991, the borderland region has become part of the vibrant growing…
From the publisher: This article is composed of three major sections. In the first section, I explain why the pessimistic predictions of the 1990s about a…
The article makes the case that China is pursuing an expensive aircraft carrier plan due to prestige benefits, the need to manage a complex regional…
Summary For students of international political economy, it is hard to ignore the growth, dynamism, and global impact of East Asia. Japan and China are…
