Asia

Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA A breakthrough between Japan and Russia is being vigorously pursued in 2016. Sixty years after the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Moscow, there is a prospect of a peace treaty and final resolution...

On December 2, President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Tsai Ing-wen, President of Taiwan, shattering nearly 40 years of diplomatic protocol. It has been characterized as everything from brilliant to petty and everything else in between. Since defeating Hillary Clinton...

Jacques deLisle will appear on WHYY's Radio Times in the 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. slot (ET) on Tuesday, December 6, and Clint Watts will appear on C-SPAN's Washington Journal on Tuesday, December 6 from 8:30 a.m. to...

China appears determined to assert itself throughout the Asia Pacific region and undercut United States’ alliances with potentially destabilizing effects on regional security. Its increasingly aggressive actions in the Western Pacific, coupled with rising defense spending have elevated the...

The Wire In 1963, noted American historian Richard Hofstadter published a book called Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. The book had been written after Adlai Stevenson, a prominent Democratic politician, twice lost his bids for the US presidency in 1952 and...

Humanities and Social Sciences Online Philip S. Golub’s stated purpose in writing this book is to chronicle “the end of a long sequence of world history in which power and wealth were durably concentrated in the hands of a few...

Abstract Green Island: A Novel, written by Shawna Yang Ryan, who teaches creative writing at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is a welcome treatment of one of the least written about periods in Taiwan’s modern history. The book’s...

Abstract In Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy, Syaru Shirley Lin presents a detailed history and analysis of Taiwan’s shifting economic policies toward China from the election of President Lee Teng-hui in...

Abstract The particular difficulties that Taiwan’s new administration faces are paradoxical, for their origin no longer has to do with ensuring the continuing existence of the state. That seems assured. Rather, the challenges arise because U.S. and China’s diplomacy...

Abstract Under the administration of Taiwan’s first woman president, Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan-Japan relations are likely to deepen while relying, as far as possible, on non-governmental and quasi-governmental working relationships. This reflects the Japanese government’s desire to avoid friction with...