Foreign Policy In Asia Research Articles

The new Silk Road diplomacy: China's central Asian foreign policy since the Cold War

Introduction 1 The Past in the Present: The Reach of History on the Sino-Central Asian Frontier 2 Treading Carefully: China Enters the Central Asian Arena, 1992-96 3 Pushing the Boundaries: Deepening Sino-Central Asian Cooperation, 1996-2001 4 A Momentary Setback: Sino-Central Asian Relations in the Post-September 11 World Order, 2001-2 5 China in Central Asia: A New Regional Power after 2002? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Japan's East Asian Foreign Policy

Japan's East Asian Foreign Policy

Hasan H. Karrar, 2009, The New Silk Road Diplomacy. China’s Central Asian Foreign Policy since the Cold War, Vancouver, bc, ubc Press, 253 p.

Hasan H. Karrar, 2009, The New Silk Road Diplomacy. China’s Central Asian Foreign Policy since the Cold War, Vancouver, bc, ubc Press, 253 p.. Un article de la revue Études internationales (Volume 41, numéro 3, 2010, p. 313-430) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Democracy and American Grand Strategy in Asia: The Realist Principles Behind an Enduring Idealism

Has democracy promotion been discredited as a central theme of American foreign policy after the US experience in Iraq? Many American critics and friends overseas appear to believe so. It would be wrong, however, to believe that the ideational approach of American foreign policy will diminish, particularly in Asia. First, there is not in fact a tension between the United States’ material power and its ideals as a democracy. Second, post-Bush leaders identify and embrace the promotion of bilateral and multilateral cooperation among Asia-Pacific democracies as central to the United States’ regional strategy. Third, and most important, democracy promotion and security cooperation among like-minded democracies will remain a central objective of American foreign policy in Asia because those elements magnify American power and facilitate US goals. In short, the ideational balance of power in Asia directly affects the material balance of power. This article examines these trends in American policy in Asia, the outlook for greater strategic and diplomatic cooperation among regional democracies, and the implications for the region, including China and ASEAN, of a US democracy-based approach to Asia policy.

Balancing China in Asia

This article focuses upon India's Look East Strategy, which has been a cornerstone of the country's new foreign policy orientation after the end of the Cold War. It reflects a newfound inclination on India's part to play a pre-eminent role in the affairs of the East and the Southeast Asian region. In this great game, competition and rivalry with China has become a significant component. Although relations between India and China have improved considerably over the years, long-standing mutual suspicion and animosities continue to persist over a large number of issues. A critical review of India's Look East strategy as part of her overall foreign policy in Asia reveals that one of the important objectives behind this strategy is to play a new balancing game against China in the Southeast Asian and the Asia-Pacific region. Though China has greater economic integration with the Southeast Asian region, there is still apprehension over the strategic role it will play in the future. A close scrutiny of India's Look East strategy reveals that in spite of both India and ASEAN refusing to admit so openly, the rise of China has been one of the significant factors behind the evolution and consolidation of this policy. Look East strategy is part of a grand vision in which India gets to play a prominent role in Asia and world affairs. Lord Curzon, former British Viceroy to India was the inspiration behind this vision. (The neo-Curzonians among the Indian elite are in favour of implementing a larger strategic vision for India under the present context by taking into account the new realities). In a way, the prospect of expanding Chinese power, particularly in the Southeast Asian region, seems to propel India's Look East strategy. This is part of an overall Forward policy in Asia based on the Curzonian legacy that India has embarked upon since the culmination of the Cold War. It is quite apparent that strategic competition with China is an undeclared element of India's Look East strategy. This becomes clear if one carefully evaluates recent Indian efforts to improve relations with the military regime in Myanmar, its attempt to forge sub-regional cooperation in the form of BIMSTEC, its effort to promote the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation forum, the reasons behind its inclusion in the ARF (ASEAN Regional Forum) and in the recently concluded East Asian Summit as well as the evolving strategic linkages with countries like Japan in the Asia-Pacific region.

Locating the Global South: Faulkner and Wright in Postwar Asia

Of all the disturbing scenes to appear inThe Ugly American(1958), William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick's fictional account of U.S. foreign policy in Asia, none is more unnerving than the depiction of two French Foreign Legionnaires — one African American, one Vietnamese — returning from an ill-fated attempt to scout the Communist Vietnamese position:Davis was leading Apache. From fifty yards they could see that there was a gout of blood on Davis's cheek. At twenty-five yards they could see the mangled remains of his left eye, hanging in a cluster of tiny glistening cords and muscles…. “They caught us, Major,” Davis said. “There has to be a first time for everything and this time they caught us.” …Davis reached over and pulled Apache's hand away from his throat. Squarely in the center of his throat there was a twisted hole. Far back in the hole the muscles and cords of his neck glistened. (130–31)The anti-Communist bonding of the African-American Davis and the Vietnamese “Apache” — the only such interracial union depicted inThe Ugly American— ends with the physical mutilation and symbolic castration of each man, one denuded of his voice, the other of his eye. In part, the horrific results of Apache and Davis's capture reveal the Communists' brutal refusal to allow locals to ally themselves with foreigners of any color. As Davis puts it, “They left my right eye so that we could find our way back and show ourselves as a lesson to others” (131).

China and the New Geometry of East Asia

China and the New Geometry of East Asia Brad Glosserman (bio) The trilateral relationship between the United States, Japan, and China may be the most important strategic triangle in the world; it is certainly the most dynamic and most confusing. The United States is the world's sole remaining superpower and possessor of national power unmatched by any other nation, now or at any other time. Japan, Asia's leading nation and America's sometime surrogate within the region, has entered a crisis of confidence after a decade of economic stagnation that shows no sign of ending. China appears to be waking from its century-and-a-half long slumber and is reclaiming its rightful place on the regional and international stage. These changes challenge the accepted international order in the Asia-Pacific. While there are uncertainties aplenty, a continuation of existing trends would transform the region's geopolitical landscape. The thoughts that follow assume that current trajectories generally continue.1 For American strategists, this new international environment requires a substantial change in perspective. The instruments of United States foreign policy in Asia can and should continue. A continued United States forward presence in the region that rests upon America's bilateral alliances will continue to play an essential role in guaranteeing peace and stability throughout the Asia-Pacific. The survival of those alliances will depend upon an equally important transformation in United States' thinking about relations with its treaty partners. First, Washington will have to start treating them more like partners and less like subordinates. Burdens, [End Page 103] responsibilities, and, yes, credit will have to be more evenly shared. This means those partners will have to act responsibly as well. Second, the alliances themselves will have to be transformed. In the 21st century, alliances will have to be based upon shared values and interests, rather than shared threat perceptions. Quite simply, alliances will have to be for something rather than merely counters to some external threat. Finally, the alliances will have to reach out to other nations, both friends and potential adversaries, to build a framework for strategic dialogue and the creation of ad hoc coalitions when situations warrant. This paper begins with an examination of American interests and strategic concerns in the Asia-Pacific region. It then assesses Japan's prospects and concludes that they are not good. This poses particular problems for Washington since a pillar of its presence in Asia is its alliance with Tokyo. The paper then turns to China, and American approaches to dealing with Beijing. While hardliners and the media appear eager for a fight, the United States is in fact hedging: hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. Next, the paper looks at two arenas of geopolitical competition between Japan and China, Northeast and Southeast Asia. In both cases, Beijing's diplomacy is more dynamic and Japan appears to be reacting to Chinese initiatives. The paper concludes with an examination of the trilateral relationship shared by the United States, China, and Japan. The three countries have to escape the zero-sum thinking that has dominated strategic calculations since World War II. United States Interests in Asia The United States is a Pacific power. Hawaii gives the United States a physical presence in the region, but ever-growing parts of the United States look west to Asia when they contemplate the future. An expanding number of Americans — 10.9 million people, or about 4% of the population — cast their eyes in the same direction when they think about their past.2 As Secretary of State Colin Powell pledged in a recent speech, "America's commitment to Asia's security and stability is [End Page 104] an enduring one.… We are a Pacific power. We will not yield our strategic position in Asia."3 The United States has many reasons to remain engaged. The first is economic. As Powell explained, "Under the protection of America's security umbrella, two-way trade between the United States and East Asia and Pacific has risen to $700 billion annually, larger than our trade with Europe. Between 1990 and 2000, exports of American products to Asia grew by over 80% and imports to the United...

Japanese foreign policy in Asia and the Pacific: domestic interests, American pressure, and regional integration

Foreword R.C.Angel Introduction A.Miyashita Japan's Foreign Economic Policy with the United States Y.Sato Consensus or Compliance? Gaiatsu and Japanese Foreign Aid to China and Russia A.Miyashita Continuity and Discontinuity in Japanese Foreign Policy toward North Korea: Freezing the KEDO in 1998 H.Sakai Cautious Proactivism and Reluctant Reactivism: Analyzing Japan's Foreign Policy Toward Indochina K.Hirata The Layered Japanese Policy Toward the Middle East: A Plea for Truly World Perspective in Understanding Realities Y.Kuroda Non-Proliferation as a Goal of Japanese Foreign Assistance W.Long Japan in APEC C.K.Yeung Determining Factors of Japan's Cooperation and Non-Cooperation with the United States: The Case of Asian Financial Crisis Management, 1997-1999 S.Katada Diplomacy of the Ministry of Finance: Politics of Foreign Exchange Y.Sato Conclusion Y.Sato

Fishy Business: A Political-Economic Analysis of the Southern Bluefin Tuna Dispute

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsYoichiro SatoYoichiro Sato is an assistant professor of regional studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a co-editor (with Akitoshi Miyashita) of Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Domestic Interests, American Pressure, and Regional Integration, and has published articles on foreign policy and political-economic issues in Asia-Pacific.

Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific

Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific

National Identity and Ethnicity in Russia and the New States of Eurasia ed. by Roman Szporluk (review)

National Identity and Ethnicity in Russia and the New States of Eurasia ed. by Roman Szporluk (review)

The Evolution of Soviet Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia: Implications for Russian Foreign Policy

acterized by periods of activism in certain states and bouts of benign neglect in others. The lack of a sustained Soviet commitment to Southeast Asia is directly related to turbulent political events in the twentieth-century international system. The bipolar character of the international system of the twentieth-century shaped and defined the role of the Soviet Union in Southeast Asia, in some ways serving as a constraint to Soviet behavior and in other ways providing the Soviet leadership with opportunities. Initially, the Soviet Union sought to gain influence through the support of communist revolutionary movements that existed, with varying degrees of influence, in virtually every state in the region. Later, the Soviet Union developed close relations with the countries of Indochina, particularly Vietnam, and sought to expand those relationships through political alliances and massive amounts of aid. In the latter part of the 1980s, Soviet foreign policy in Southeast Asia had begun to change in tone and content. The changes were the result of Soviet domestic reform imperatives; the Soviets recognized the value of expanding relations with noncommunist countries and extending policy options to include bilateral trade, and they reassessed relations with allies in Indochina. The collapse of the Soviet state following the 1991 August coup attempt and the end of the Cold War accelerated these trends in Southeast Asian foreign policy. The rationale directing foreign policy shifted from a military to a developmental imperative. International factors have made it possible for Russia to

Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and U. S. Foreign Policy in Asia.

Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and U. S. Foreign Policy in Asia.

Review: Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia, by Ronald McGlothlen

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Ronald L. McGlothlen. Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia. New York: W. W. Norton. 1993. Pp. 320. $27.95

Journal Article Ronald L. McGlothlen. Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia. New York: W. W. Norton. 1993. Pp. 320. $27.95 Get access McGlothlen Ronald L.. Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia. New York: W. W. Norton. 1993. Pp. 320. $27.95. Douglas Brinkley Douglas Brinkley Eisenhower Center, University of New Orleans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 99, Issue 4, October 1994, Page 1423, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/99.4.1423 Published: 01 October 1994

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Controlling the waves: Dean Acheson and US foreign policy in Asia

Journal Article Controlling the waves: Dean Acheson and US foreign policy in Asia Get access Controlling the waves: Dean Acheson and US foreign policy in Asia. By Ronald McGlothlen. New York, London: Norton. 1993. 320pp. Index. £27.95. ISBN 0 393 03520 4. Peter Lowe Peter Lowe 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 2, April 1994, Pages 350–351, https://doi.org/10.2307/2625301 Published: 01 April 1994