Kishida the accelerator: Japan's defense evolution after Abe
In: The Washington quarterly, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 63-83
ISSN: 1530-9177
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In: The Washington quarterly, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 63-83
ISSN: 1530-9177
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In: Asia policy: a peer-reviewed journal devoted to bridging the gap between academic research and policymaking on issues related to the Asia-Pacific, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 125-160
ISSN: 1559-2960
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In: The China quarterly, Band 252, S. 1066-1093
ISSN: 1468-2648
This study analyses the "one China" framework's significance for Japan–Taiwan relations since Tokyo switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1972. Drawing on Chinese-, Japanese- and English-language sources, it examines developments since the breakthrough Japan–PRC normalization communiqué and the "Japan formula," which enabled Tokyo to normalize relations – six years before Washington – without recognizing Beijing's claim of sovereignty over Taiwan, and while maintaining robust, if unofficial, ties with Taipei thenceforth. Highlighting distinctions between Beijing's self-asserted "one-China principle" and Japan's ambiguous official position and subsequent effective policies, it assesses incremental but practically significant evolutions of Japan–Taiwan relations over the past half-century. In the 21st century, the trend towards incrementally closer ties has proven strikingly resilient to political transitions in Japan and Taiwan, China's growing power, pushback from Beijing and worsening cross-Strait frictions. Beyond Japan–Taiwan relations and theoretical debates on "one China," this article's findings carry significant implications for Taiwan's international space, cross-Strait dynamics and China–Japan–United States relations. (China Q/GIGA)
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In: Asian survey, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 29-42
ISSN: 1533-838X
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In: Asian survey, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 49-64
ISSN: 1533-838X
Japan's leaders began 2020 with grand ambitions to make it a historic year. Tokyo was set to welcome the world for the Summer Olympics, Japan's first since 1964, and Abe Shinzō, the powerful prime minister, planned to realize his party's 65-year-old dream: revising Japan's never-amended, US-drafted 1947 constitution. By spring, however, it was clear that COVID-19 had other plans. Despite public health outcomes better than in any other G7 member, daily life was severely disrupted, and the domestic political and economic fallout for Japan was significant. By late summer, circumstances were improving, but both Abe's popularity and his personal health had suffered. He resigned in September, ending the longest prime-ministership in Japanese history. Though COVID-19 and the end of the Abe Era were the major storylines of Japan in 2020, a subplot was, paradoxically, remarkable continuity in national politics and foreign affairs.
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 49-64
ISSN: 0004-4687
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In: International relations of the Asia-Pacific: a journal of the Japan Association of International Relations, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 453-491
ISSN: 1470-4838
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In: Asia policy: a peer-reviewed journal devoted to bridging the gap between academic research and policymaking on issues related to the Asia-Pacific, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 140-143
ISSN: 1559-2960
In: The China quarterly, Band 233, S. 137-165
ISSN: 1468-2648
In recent years, scholarship examining US and security allies' responses to China's rapidly growing power and "assertive" policies towards its neighbours has proliferated. The English-language literature remains relatively one-sided, however. Crucial to understanding the complex forces driving strategic competition in the contemporary Asia-Pacific are comprehensive surveys of how Chinese views are evolving. This study draws extensively on Chinese sources to update existing scholarship, much of it two decades old, with a particular focus on recent Chinese reactions to major developments concerning the US-centred alliance system - a foundational element of the 65-year-old regional order. Beijing expresses deepening frustration towards, and even open opposition to, recent alliance strengthening, and instead champions alternative security architectures free of what it alleges to be "exclusive," "zero-sum," "Cold-war relic" US-centred alliances. Proposals for concrete pathways to operationalizing these abstract visions that take into account contemporary political and security realities (for example, North Korea), however, appear less forthcoming. (China Q/GIGA)
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In: Asia policy: a peer-reviewed journal devoted to bridging the gap between academic research and policymaking on issues related to the Asia-Pacific, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 139-172
ISSN: 1559-2960
In: The China quarterly, Band 233, S. 137-165
ISSN: 1468-2648
AbstractIn recent years, scholarship examining US and security allies' responses to China's rapidly growing power and "assertive" policies towards its neighbours has proliferated. The English-language literature remains relatively one-sided, however. Crucial to understanding the complex forces driving strategic competition in the contemporary Asia-Pacific are comprehensive surveys of how Chinese views are evolving. This study draws extensively on Chinese sources to update existing scholarship, much of it two decades old, with a particular focus on recent Chinese reactions to major developments concerning the US-centred alliance system – a foundational element of the 65-year-old regional order. Beijing expresses deepening frustration towards, and even open opposition to, recent alliance strengthening, and instead champions alternative security architectures free of what it alleges to be "exclusive," "zero-sum," "Cold-war relic" US-centred alliances. Proposals for concrete pathways to operationalizing these abstract visions that take into account contemporary political and security realities (for example, North Korea), however, appear less forthcoming.
In: Asia policy: a peer-reviewed journal devoted to bridging and gap between academic research and policymaking on issues related to the Asia-Pacific, Band 24, S. 139-172
ISSN: 1559-0968
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In: Security studies, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 420-459
ISSN: 1556-1852
In: Security studies, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 420-459
ISSN: 0963-6412
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In: The Washington quarterly, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 79-99
ISSN: 1530-9177