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, market, and society in Japan have framed North Korea as a salient evil, and have in turn constructed and manipulated the risks posed by their neighbour.
Using the example of Japan's post-Cold War responses to North Korea, this book studies the concept of risk in international relations, and its interactive relationship with domestic civil society. It focuses on how security risks are identified and re-evaluated by policy makers, mass media, and civil society stakeholders, and in doing so disentangles the complex processes by which Japan has framed and recalibrated risks in response to the DPRK. By exploring how risks identified with Pyongyang's behaviour towards Japan have been mediated between the state, market, and society via mainstream discourse in Japan, Ra Mason highlights the way in which these processes are causally linked to key actors' conceptions of risk. Indeed, this book provides an original theoretical framework - distinguishing between risk and traditional threat perceptions - through which to address issues of national security and identity, as well as the norms which inform them.
Japan's Relations with North Korea and the Recalibration of Risk will be welcomed by students and scholars across a wide range of fields including Japanese politics, Asia-Pacific studies, international relations, and security studies.
Автор: Liegl, Markus B. (goethe-universitat Frankfurt Am Main, Germany) Название: China`s use of military force in foreign affairs ISBN: 1138389056 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138389052 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides a detailed investigation of China`s crisis behavior in four key historical cases and provides an answer to the question: why and under what conditions might the China use military force in foreign relations?
Описание: A comprehensive and often controversial account of Japan`s foreign and security policy before the Second World War based on War Crimes Trials materials, original Japanese sources, and detailed accounts by Japanese historians. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make availa
Название: Japan`s search for strategic security partnerships ISBN: 1138943592 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138943599 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book shows how trust and co-operation with the United States, the only partner with which Japan has a formal alliance, is being rebuilt. And discusses how other relationships, both on security and on wider issues, are being formed in the region and other countries - with India and Australia being of particular importance.
Автор: Cheng Joseph Yu-Shek & Wong Bryan Pak Nung Название: Global China: Internal And External Reaches ISBN: 9814596728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814596725 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 21226.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: After Two Decades Since The Disintegration Of Soviet Union In 1991, The Largest And The Most Populist Socialist State - The People'S Republic Of China - Does Not Only Manage To Stay Intact, But Has Also Emerged As The Second Largest Economy In The World. Moreover, Its Political, Diplomatic, Military And Cultural Reaches Have Been Extended To Various Parts Of The World. There Have Been Many Factual And Fictional Discussions And Debates In The Public Domains, On China'S Apparent Rise Either As A Threat Or An Opportunity. This Book Will Take On These Discussions And Debates To Provide Theory-Informed Empirical Studies Regarding A Few Research Questions:
How Does The People'S Republic Of China Manage To Rise And Achieve Global Reaches?
How Can We Effectively Conceptualize China'S Global Reaches?
What Internal And External Strategic And Security Measures Have Chinese State Adopted In Order To Maintain Such Vast And Far-Reaching Constellations Of Domestic-External Nexuses?
We Consider That The Idea And Concept Of "Global China" Is Perhaps The Most Viable Analytical Instrument To Capture Such Increasingly Complex Phenomenons In Association With The Rise Of China.
Описание: This book examines how critical approaches to security developed in Europe can be used to investigate a Chinese security issue - the case of the Falungong.
Автор: Liu Wei Название: China In The United Nations ISBN: 1938134443 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781938134449 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 12038.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines China's participation in the United Nations (UN). There are two research components. First, the author seeks to find a pattern of China's multilateral diplomatic behavior in the UN by examining China's behavior toward peacekeeping operations and arms control issues during different leadership periods under Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin respectively. Second, a model is proposed to explain this pattern of behavior. By marrying rationalism and constructivism, this model argues that the amelioration of China's external security environment changes in its projected self-image. Furthermore, China's consistently strong view of sovereignty determines its evolving pattern of behavior in the UN.
How to stabilize the security relationship between Washington and Beijing.
The U.S.-China relationship has not always been smooth, but since Richard Nixon's opening in the early 1970s, the two countries have evolved a relationship that has been generally beneficial to both parties. Economic engagement and a diplomatic partnership together with robust trade and investment relations, among other activities, have meant a peaceful context for reform and China's rise, helping to lift millions of Chinese out of poverty and giving the PRC incentive to work within the U.S.-led global order.
The logic of the relationship, however, is now open to serious debate on both sides of the Pacific. After a period of American preoccupation with the Middle East, President Obama attempted a rebalancing of U.S. interests toward the Asia-Pacific region. With the Trump administration in office, the U.S.-China relationship appears to be at a crossroads: does it continue to focus on constructive engagement and managing differences, or prepare for a new era of rivalry and conflict?
Here, following up on their 2014 book, Strategic Reassurance and Resolve, the authors provide a more balanced assessment of the current state of relations and suggest measures that could help stabilize the security relationship, without minimizing the very real problems that both Beijing and Washington must address. The authors are hopeful, but are also under no illusions about the significance of the challenges now posed to the bilateral relationship, as well as regional order, by the rise of China and the responses of America together with its allies.
Автор: Reeves Название: Chinese Foreign Relations with Weak Peripheral States ISBN: 1138891509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138891500 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines China`s relations with its weak periphery states through the theoretical lens of structural power and structural violence.
Описание: This book presents an interdisciplinary examination of cross-Taiwan Strait relations and the complex dynamics at play in the region.
Автор: Andrew C. Mertha, Andrew Mertha Название: Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979 ISBN: 1501731238 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501731235 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3380.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they inherited a war-ravaged and internationally isolated country. Pol Pot’s government espoused the rhetoric of self-reliance, but Democratic Kampuchea was utterly dependent on Chinese foreign aid and technical assistance to survive. Yet in a markedly asymmetrical relationship between a modernizing, nuclear power and a virtually premodern state, China was largely unable to use its power to influence Cambodian politics or policy. In Brothers in Arms, Andrew Mertha traces this surprising lack of influence to variations between the Chinese and Cambodian institutions that administered military aid, technology transfer, and international trade.
Today, China’s extensive engagement with the developing world suggests an inexorably rising China in the process of securing a degree of economic and political dominance that was unthinkable even a decade ago. Yet, China’s experience with its first-ever client state suggests that the effectiveness of Chinese foreign aid, and influence that comes with it, is only as good as the institutions that manage the relationship. By focusing on the links between China and Democratic Kampuchea, Mertha peers into the "black box" of Chinese foreign aid to illustrate how domestic institutional fragmentation limits Beijing’s ability to influence the countries that accept its assistance.