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October 21, 2014 Special Forum
Japan’s Foreign Policy toward Northeast Asia as Seen in Chinese Publications

In the past few years, China and Japan have been experiencing serial difficulties in their relations, beyond anything seen since normalization in 1972. Chinese writings on Japan’s foreign […]

Cheng Xiaohe*

October 17, 2014 Special Forum
Sino-Japanese Competition and Its Multilateral Implications

While eyes are fixed on the Sino-US competition in East Asia, there is also a competition for influence between China and Japan. In the decade of the 2000s, […]

Editorial Staff

demonization, India, multilateralism, Southeast Asia, Territorial Disputes, triangular relations, Vietnam
October 17, 2014 Special Forum
Vietnam Among the Powers: Struggle & Cooperation

  *The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and are not presented as those of the Congressional Research Service or the Library of Congress. […]

Mark Manyin

Arms sales, ASEAN, collective self-defense, communist party, equidistance, great power rivalry, oil rig, South China Sea, the Philippines, tourism, Vietnam
October 17, 2014 Special Forum
Japan’s Approach to Southeast Asia in the Context of Sino-Japanese Relations

At times, since 2000, interest has piqued in Sino-Japanese competition—over Russia (rival proposals for an oil pipeline in the early 2000s), South Korea (maneuvering within ASEAN+3 and in […]

Gilbert Rozman

Asian values, Asianism, Australia, East Asian Community, Fukuda Doctrine, India, Rebalancing, Regionalism, Revisionism, South China Sea, Southeast Asia
July 25, 2014 Special Forum
Introduction to Special Forum

Economists, political scientists, and sociologists greeted developments at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s with acclamation that their theoretical views were proven correct and […]

Editorial Staff

contradictory transitional thinking, elite continuity, historical memories, symbolic pretexts
May 23, 2014 Special Forum
Asian Multilateralism: Introduction

In the mid-2010s multilateralism centered on East Asia stands at a turning point. What are its main purposes? What balance of power—military, economic, and cultural—will it reflect? Who […]

Editorial Staff

ASEAN, Bifurcated multilateralism, community of common destiny, cultural multilateralism, economic multilateralism, security multilateralism, triumphalist leadership
May 23, 2014 Special Forum
Multilateralism in East Asia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

In his masterpiece, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Italian film director Sergio Leone constructed a surreal cinematic space through microscopic close-ups of his movie characters juxtaposed […]

Jochen Prantl

East Asia, EU, formal-informal continuum, global-regional next, great power management, layered hierarchy of states, the state as market actor
May 23, 2014 Special Forum
ASEAN-led Multilateralism and Regional Order: The Great Power Bargain Deficit

The post-Cold War East Asian and Asia-Pacific strategic landscape has been dominated by three factors: 1) the United States’ military preponderance underpinned by its hub-and-spokes San Francisco system […]

Evelyn Goh

ASEAN, great power bargain deficit, inclusivity, institution-racing, minimalist norms, multilateralism, regional order, restricted scope, small state voices
May 23, 2014 Special Forum
China’s Regionalism in Asia

President Obama’s “tour around China” and China’s response that “China is right here whether he (Obama) comes or not”1 reflect a delicate US-China estrangement. The China-Japan Diaoyu Island […]

Zhang Xiaotong*

community of common destiny, community of common interest, evolving attitudes toward regionalism, expanded FTAs, regionalism with Chinese characteristics, TPP
March 21, 2014 Special Forum
Introduction to the Special Forum: March

The discourse employed in China to control the narrative on domestic and global issues has long attracted special attention. Confucian tradition placed fundamental importance on the “rectification of […]

Editorial Staff

core values, cultural security, discourse duality, Set expressions