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  • The Effects of Wars

    Lessons from the War in Ukraine

    Edited by Pierre Bocquillon, Suzanne Doyle, Toby S. James, Ra Mason, Soul Park, Matilde Rosina ...
    War has been an ever-present feature of human existence. The analysis of wars has tended to focus on either their causes or the military and strategic consequences of a conflict. This book argues that war can have a much wider impact across layers of society that go beyond international boundaries. It presents a heuristic multi-disciplinary framework for analysing the ripple and backwash effects ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Japan's Relations with North Korea and the Recalibration of Risk

    by Ra Mason ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    North Korea’s contemporary relations with Japan have been fraught with tension. Tactics employed by Pyongyang have included abductions of Japanese citizens, missile launches over Japanese territory, intrusions into Japanese sovereign waters, and nuclear tests in defiance of Japanese and international condemnation. In light of the security risk the DPRK poses, this book examines how the state, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Risk State

    Japan's Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty

    by Sebastian Maslow, Ra Mason, Paul O'Shea ...
    Series series Rethinking Asia and International Relations
    The increase of new complex security challenges and the heightening significance of a diverse array of actors has simultaneously posed a challenge to traditional perspectives on international relations and foreign policy and created an opportunity for new concepts to be applied. Conventional explanations of Japan’s foreign policy have provided us with theoretically predetermined understandings and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Regional Risk and Security in Japan

    Whither the everyday

    by Glenn D. Hook, Ra Mason, Paul O'Shea ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    Japan’s unusual position in the realm of international politics encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia, both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst international relations theory offers a number of ways to analyse these relations, this book instead utilizes the concept of risk to provide an ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

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  • The Long Game

    China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

    by Rush Doshi ...
    Series series Bridging the Gap
    For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989

    From balancing to bandwagoning?

    by Reinhard Drifte ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989 raises the crucial question of whether Japan's political leadership which is still preoccupied with finding a new political constellation and with overcoming a deep economic crisis is able to handle such a complex policy in the face of an increasingly assertive China and a US alliance partner with strong swings between engaging and containing China ... Read more

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  • Japan as a 'Normal Country'?

    A Nation in Search of Its Place in the World

    Edited by Masayaki Tadokoro, Yoshihide Soeya, David A. Welch ...
    Series series Japan and Global Society
    For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of sophistication. Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic and geographically comparative discussion of the unique limitations of Japanese foreign and defence policy. The contributors reappraise the definition of normality and ask whether Japan is indeed ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization

    Case Studies from Beijing and Taipei

    by W Emily Chow, Chiang Chun-chi, Rosita Dellios, James C. Hsiung, Shawn S. F. Kao, Richard W. Mansbach, Samuel S. Zhao ...
    In the this collection, International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization, the writers explore international relations and globalization by using specific examples from Beijing and Taipei. In December 1949, when China was politically divided the People's Republic of China (PRC) central government was in control of most resources, tangible and intangible. For that reason, our unit of analysis ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Japan–South Korea Identity Clash

    East Asian Security and the United States

    by Brad Glosserman, Scott A. Snyder ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Japan and South Korea are Western-style democracies with open-market economies committed to the rule of law. They are also U.S. allies. Yet despite their shared interests, shared values, and geographic proximity, divergent national identities have driven a wedge between them. Drawing on decades of expertise, Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder investigate the roots of this split and its ongoing ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • PLA Influence on China's National Security Policymaking

    Edited by Phillip C. Saunders, Andrew Scobell ...
    In recent years there have been reports of actions purportedly taken by People's Liberation Army (PLA) units without civilian authorization, and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) civilian leaders seeking to curry favor with the military—suggesting that a nationalistic and increasingly influential PLA is driving more assertive Chinese policies on a range of military and sovereignty issues. To many ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A War Like No Other

    The Truth About China's Challenge to America

    by Richard C. Bush, Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    "Nobody approaches the objectivity and precision of Bush and O'Hanlon when it comes to analysis of the military and political dimensions of the Taiwan issue. This is one challenge that U.S. policymakers and military strategists cannot afford to get wrong, and scholars cannot afford to ignore."- Michael Green, former Senior Director for Asian Affairs National Security CouncilThe Showdown to ComeIn ... Read more

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  • The United States and Northeast Asia

    Debates, Issues, and New Order

    Edited by Chung-in Moon, Professor G. John Ikenberry ...
    Series series Asia in World Politics
    Since World War II, the United States has played a crucial role in shaping Northeast Asian politics and economics. However, as this authoritative book shows, the Cold War's demise, September 11, and America's major strategic realignments have unleashed seismic changes in the region. China's rise, Japan's quest for a normal state, and the North Korean nuclear quagmire are also potential flashpoints ... Read more

    $47.79 USD