Assessing Abe’s Economic Agenda: Abenomics, TPP, and Domestic Politics
It is premature to evaluate the success of Abenomics and TPP, two signature items of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo during his first two years in office, but it […]
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The Foreign Policy of Abe Shinzo: Strategic Vision and Policy Implementation
On January 5, 2015, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo reaffirmed that his government will continue to pursue a “proactive contribution to international peace” in his first press conference of […]
US-Japan Relations under Abe Shinzo
When Abe Shinzo became prime minister for a second time, the reaction in Washington was decidedly mixed. In both the Obama administration and the policy/intellectual community of Japan-watchers, […]
Realism vs. Revisionism in Abe’s Foreign Policy in 2014
This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703
Country Report: Russia (January 2015)
Russian publications have had to react to an unexpectedly difficult environment at the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015. Counting on increasing polarization in the Asia-Pacific […]
Comparative Southeast Asian Military Modernization – III
Maritime Balance in the South China Sea: Submarines in Southeast Asia In recent years, Southeast Asian countries have pursued the acquisition of submarines with increasing vigor. Currently, four […]
Country Report: South Korea (January 2015)
Deepening confrontation between China-North Korea-Russia on one side and South Korea-the United States-Japan on the other was the center of discussion over the last two months. As the […]
Washington Insights: December 2014
The November summitry—APEC, the EAS, and the G20 as well as concomitant bilateral, trilateral, and other multilateral meetings—stimulated rethinking about regional relations. In Washington, this took the form […]
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 […]
‘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 […]