Country Report: China (December 2014)
The prevailing Chinese narrative is zero-sum, blaming Japan unsparingly and the United States, if in a less vitriolic manner, for regional fragmentation when a path to integration is […]
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‘The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia’
Saadia Pekkanen, John Ravenhill and Rosemary Foot, eds., Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) Broad implications of the emergence of a […]
China and India: Coping with Growing Asymmetry
It is not just the GDP figure of China that has expanded to become nearly four times that of India’s; the components that constitute it reflect a picture […]
Looking Eastward to China: Beijing’s Central Asian Diplomacy and its Implications for China’s New Silk Road Initiatives
During a meeting with the presidents of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Pakistan on November 8, 2014, President Xi Jinping announced that China was contributing 40 billion […]
The Northeast Asia Peace and Cooperation Initiative (NAPCI): A Vision toward Sustainable Peace and Cooperation in Northeast Asia
The security environment in the Asia-Pacific is in flux. South Korea is facing the most serious and complex external security environment since the end of the Cold War. […]
Country Report: Japan (December 2014)
As Abe stumbled in the fall of 2014, his defenders grew more aggressive. Initiatives to Russia, North Korea, and China faced one sort of problem or another. Even […]
The New Fulcrum of Asia: The Indo-Japan Entente and the Rise of China
A new and potentially pivotal alignment of India and Japan is forming in response to China’s rise. This still informal security and military partnership implicitly premised on countering […]
Comparative Southeast Asian Military Modernization – II
Regional Leadership through Strength?: Indonesian Foreign and Security Policies in Southeast Asia With the enthusiasm surrounding the election of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, some have again speculated as […]
China Dream – 1
What Can the China Dream “Do” in the PRC? Since Xi Jinping chose “The China Dream” (中国梦) as his signature slogan in late 2012, much has been […]
Civilizational Divides and Regional Confrontations – 4
Reading Kazuhiko Togo’s powerful piece on the dilemmas of Japan, one feels in a time warp. The echo of the 19th century’s choice of modernization with the adoption […]