Abstract This article explains the shift in China’s behavior in the South China Sea between two periods: the first from 2000–2008 and the second from…
Topic: Maritime Security
Abstract In 2015, Harvard’s Graham Allison wrote an evocative article discussing the “Thucydides Trap” in relations between China and the United States, highlighting the danger…
Abstract Both the East and Southeast China Seas have been home to a series of repeated episodes of tension between the People’s Republic of China…
Abstract China’s declaration of an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea shocked the international community, and many explanations have been offered…
Abstract As the international security environment grows increasingly complex, the need for multilateral solutions grows. Two such efforts are United Nations peacekeeping and counterpiracy operations…
Abstract U.S. policy in the South China Sea has failed to fully address two problems: China’s continuing buildup of military and paramilitary power in the…
Summary The history of the South China Sea is a catalyst of international cooperation and conflict. Security in the Indo-Asia-Pacific is largely governed by command…
Summary How are China’s ongoing sovereignty disputes in the East and South China Seas likely to evolve? Are relations across the Taiwan Strait poised to…
Summary This book analyzes the rise of China’s naval power and its possible strategic consequences from a wide variety of perspectives – technological, economic, and…
Abstract How do territorial disputes shape regional contexts within which politics among local states takes place? This paper analyses regional impacts of territorial disputes drawing…
Abstract This article examines the strategies employed by China and Japan in advancing their national interests in the South China Sea dispute. It argues that…
Abstract Nearly every important measure of the US–China competition demonstrates broad-based US primacy but trend lines that favour China. The military aspects of the intensifying…
Abstract: The failure to agree on a statement fostered the impression that the ADMM-Plus could go the way of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), an…
Abstract: This analysis begins with an assessment of China’s expanding interests and presence in the Indian Ocean, followed by a summary of India’s perspectives and…
Abstract: With regard to China’s growing maritime and naval presence in the Indian Ocean, there is an important question to raise: Will China’s leaders be…
