Abstract This essay challenges the dominant negative critiques of the foreign policy of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). The DPJ possesses a coherent grand…
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Abstract “A crisis almost always reveals the reality, and the Persian Gulf crisis revealed the real Japan. In the moment of truth, an economic superpower…
Summary This book is the first attempt to examine Japan’s relations with Russia from the perspective of national identity; providing a new interpretation of Japan’s…
Summary After suffering crushing military defeats in 1945, both Japan and Germany have again achieved positions of economic dominance and political influence. Yet neither seeks…
Summary The study of security has been dominated for four decades by a scientific perspective that has been under attack since the end of the…
Summary Chapters on China, Japan, Russia. Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes…
Summary Personal Identity, National Identity and International Relations is the first psychological study of nation-building, nationalism, mass mobilisation and foreign policy processes. In a bold…
Summary This book argues that community can exist at the international level, and that states dwelling within an international community have the capacity to develop…
Summary In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore,…
Abstract The Asian Pacific region is highly unstable, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Contrary to the assertions of Realists, who argue multipolarity makes…
Summary The major criticism of the ASEAN Community idea is its elitist approaches. It lacks the most crucial components that have brought about the success…
Summary This second edition of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia takes the excellent framework from Acharya’s first edition and brings it up-to-date, looking at ASEAN’s…
Summary More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but Asia still faces serious security challenges. These include the current…
Summary Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation…
Abstract Both New Delhi and Washington have rhetorically invoked the unique ties between “the world’s oldest and largest democracies.” It is time for both countries…
