Asian Perceptions Research Articles

The Role of the United States in Post-Cold War East Asian Security Affairs

The article argues that, while U.S. structural power has not significantly declined since the end of the Cold War, East Asian perceptions of the current and prospective U.S. role in the region's security affairs have changed. On the one hand, continuing U.S. economic and military presence in the region is widely appreciated by local governments and people who seem to be trapped in a spiraling arms race and faced with potential dominance by Japan and China. On the other hand, however, many East Asians are also highly critical of domineering and unilateralist tendencies in U.S. policy. These observations lead the authors to the conclusion that Washington's problem is not a decline of U.S. hard power but inadequacies in the use of its soft power and that security relations in post-Cold War Asia call for well-informed and intelligent use of old-fashioned diplomacy, a tool U.S. policy makers do not seem to have mastered.

Justice for all? Race and perceptions of bias in the Ontario criminal justice system – A Toronto survey

This paper extends previous work on conflict theory by examining racial differences in the perception of criminal injustice. The data are taken from a 1994 general population survey ofblack, Chinese and white residents in Toronto, Ontario. Initial results indicate that blacks are more likely to perceive discrimination within the criminaljustice system than either whites or Asians and that these racial differences persist after controlling for various demographic variables. Additional analysis suggests that racial differences in perceptions of injustice are at least partially explained by differences in experiences with the police and the courts. While police contact increases perceptions ofinjusticefor blacks, it has no impact on the perceptions of whites or Asians. Furthermore, while court contact increases perceptions ofinjusticefor all respondents, the effect is more pronounced among black respondents. The theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.

Asian Perceptions of Nature: A Critical Approach.

Sacred trees and haunted forests - Indonesia sociopolitical structures and the Southeast Asian ecosystems nature as the virgin forest - Sri Lankan farmers' perspective nature conservation in Northern Pakistan Japanese advertising nature - ecology, women, fashion, art culture in Japanese nature Feng-shui and the Chinese perception of nature.

Perceptions of Asia: a geographical perspective

(1994). Perceptions of Asia: a geographical perspective. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 145-152.

Australian perceptions of Asia: cultural history and cultural ethics

Alison Broinowski. The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 260. Contents, foreword, preface, acknowledgements, introduction, illustrations, glossary, notes, references and sources, index. A$27.95, paper. David Walker, editor. Australian Perceptions of Asia. Special Issue of Australian Cultural History, Volume 9, 1990. Pp. 134. Paper.

Asian Perceptions of Nature. Edited by Ole Bruun and Arne Kalland. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 1992.

Asian Perceptions of Nature. Edited by Ole Bruun and Arne Kalland. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 1992.

The communication of public speaking anxiety: Perceptions of Asian and American speakers

In the present study, levels of self‐perceived speaker anxiety, audience members' perceptions of speaker anxiety, and the relationship between these variables, is examined for American and non‐American (Asian) student speakers. The results show that American audiences perceive Asian speakers to have more speech anxiety than American speakers, even though Asian speakers do not self‐report higher anxiety levels. The findings also confirm that speech state anxiety is not communicated effectively between speakers and audiences for Asian or American speakers. Explanations and implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are provided.

Affective influences on stereotype judgements

Abstract What role does affect play in stereotype judgements? This experiment investigated mood effects on perceptions of Asian (heterosterotype) or Causcasian (autostereotype) characters who were part of a same-race or a mixed-race dyad. We expected that mood should (a) distort stereotype judgements in a mood-consistent direction, and (b) that mood biases should be stronger for mixed-race dyads that require more detailed and inferential processing. Happy, neutral or sad mood was induced in subjects (n=198) using an audio-visual mood induction procedure in an allegedly separate experiment. Subjects were then asked to form impressions of Asian or Caucasian targets associated with a same-race or an other-race partner. As predicted, we found consistent mood-congruent biases in such. However, both positive and negative mood effects were significantly greater when a target was part of a mixed-race dyad, a condition presumably requiring more detailed and substantive inferential processing. These findings are in...

General Practitioners' Perceptions of Asian and Non-Asian Patients

The literature on the health of the population of Asian origin contains little on their interaction with primary care services. This paper reports results of a postal survey of GPs' attitudes towards Asian and Non-Asian patients. The response rate was 78%-141 of the 182 GPs replied. Compared with non-Asian patients, GPs held less positive attitudes towards Asian origin patients who were thought to require longer for consultations, be less compliant, and make excessive and inappropriate use of health services. These perceptions have implications for patient care and the GP workload.

American Policy toward Problems of Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia

I n the mid-seventies, following the Indian nuclear implosion in 1974, a major shift took place in the definition of nuclear capability. Whereas nuclear capability had merely been equated with the manufacture or acquisition of nuclear weapons, its significance broadened to include the possession of nuclear materials, most notably highly enriched uranium and/or weapons-grade plutonium, which could be diverted from civilian uses to nuclear weapons and explosives. India's 1974 demonstration also ushered in an era of concern regarding nuclear proliferation in South Asia. This concern was a product of both the increasing tension between India and Pakistan and concern about militarization of the Indian Ocean. It received expression in projects such as the task force report for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which addressed the problem of nuclear arms in South Asia.' Chaired by Leonard S. Spector, the task force was made up of American specialists in the field of nuclear nonproliferation, South Asian security, and arms control. It attempted to outline the dynamics of nuclear proliferation in South Asia and made recommendations on slowing down the nuclear arms race in that region. This article examines the problem of nuclear proliferation in South Asia, American policies in the region, and changes that have taken place in the South Asian perception of U.S. policy.

The United States in a Changing Pacific Rim: Asian Perceptions and the U.S. Response

The United States in a Changing Pacific Rim: Asian Perceptions and the U.S. Response

Australian perceptions of Asia

Australian perceptions of Asia

Southeast Asia in Indian Foreign Policy: Some Preliminary Observations

The purpose of this paper is to make a preliminary attempt to locate the position and importance of Southeast Asia in the broader framework of Indian foreign policy concerns. A major assumption behind this exercise is that Southeast Asia has in recent years begun to look increasingly important from New Delhi's per spective and that many Southeast Asians have also begun to re-evaluate their earlier perceptions of India as at best a marginal actor as far as the Southeast Asian region is concerned. While such a re-evaluation of Southeast Asian perceptions does not form a part of the subject matter of this paper, it would be correct to assume that it does have a positive feedback effect on the making of Indian policy towards this region and to that extent is relevant as an input into the Indian foreign policy making process. While India's cultural and religious links with Southeast Asia go back to ancient times, and while there had been great sympathy among the Indian intel ligentsia during the colonial period for the anti-colonial movements in the British, French and Dutch colonial possessions in Southeast Asia, independent India's interest in the region seemed to wane soon after the heady days of the Afro-Asian Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia, in April 1955. There were many reasons for this relative neglect of Southeast Asia by New Delhi. These included India's preoccupation with the conflict with Pakistan as well as its attempt, largely unsuccessful, to minimize external, principally superpower, intervention in the affairs of the subcontinent. Moreover, with Southeast Asia, specially Indochina, emerging as a major arena of contention between the two superpowers in the 1960s, non-aligned India's capacity to influence events in the strategic region was extremely limited. India's military humiliation at the hands of China in the border conflict of 1962 further circumscribed New Delhi's capacity to act outside its borders. It not only forced the government to look inward in order to better under stand the reasons for the debacle, but it also had very adverse effects on India's standing abroad, particularly among Southeast Asian countries who, as close neighbours of both the Asian giants, were extremely sensitive to any change in the balance of power between India and China. Although the harm done to India's military credibility, and therefore its standing as a major Asian power, by the 1962 debacle was partially overcome by

Southeast Asian Perceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy

Research Article| June 01 1985 Southeast Asian Perceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy Robert C. Horn Robert C. Horn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1956) 25 (6): 678–691. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644381 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Robert C. Horn; Southeast Asian Perceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy. Far Eastern Survey 1 June 1956; 25 (6): 678–691. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2644381 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1985 The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Southeast Asian Perceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy

The events that occurred at the end of the 1970s in Southeast Asia, and more broadly in Asia, have seemed to resurrect that region as a focus of American foreign policy. Within Southeast Asia, the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea (Cambodia) was followed by a punitive attack by the People's Republic of China (PRC) on Vietnam to teach it a lesson. The close ties between Vietnam and the Soviet Union-seen in Hanoi's joining the Soviet-sponsored economic grouping COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) and signing the Soviet-Vietnamese friendship treaty, both in 1978-and the increasingly prominent military dimension' of these ties further drew American attention. Other events in Asia, including the warming relations between the United States and China on the one hand and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on the other, served to polarize U.S.-Soviet relations and to deepen the U.S. commitment to work with China in an effort to confront Soviet and Vietnamese designs in Southeast Asia. U.S. policy in Southeast Asia over the past five years has sought strenuously to build close ties with the noncommunist states of the area. This article, in addressing the nature and results of that effort, is particularly concerned with how these Southeast Asian states perceive Washington's