Military spending and the arms race on the Korean Peninsula Chung-In Moon Sangkeun Lee Northeast Asia 15 years ago

Narushige Michishita is Associate Professor in the Security and International Studies Program at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, and is the author of ‘North Korea’s …

China was different. The accumulation of history, politics, pride and prestige would not allow Japan to so easily accept absorption and relative subordination within any nascent Sino-centric order.

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h larger one. More importantly, beijing does not believe that the advantage of either economic or military power still lies with America—china seems to see the consequences of a potential clash being just …

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prevents’). The Chinese boom was driven by export-oriented growth and related investment spending. two interdependent steps were required: one to balance China’s trade surplus through Rmb …

Southeast Asia defies simple categorisation. Among its countries there are obvious contrasts: big and small, vibrant and stagnant, attractive and troubling, peaceful and unsettled, quaint and web-savvy, …

Within asia, what we broadly term ‘promoting the rule of law’ embraces environmental governance in china, judicial reform in Vietnam, court buildings and computers in Mongolia, independent regulators …

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