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H-Diplo|RJISSF Rountable on Chung, Pride, Not Prejudice: National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia

March 6, 2023March 20, 2023 By Eunbin Chung,Seanon S. Wong,Kan Kimura,Aram Hur,Il Hyun Cho,Xiaoming Huang

I was enormously curious over the claim coming out of the book’s title when asked to introduce this book in this H-Diplo Roundtable. As my fellow reviewers here noted as well, the book’s main claim runs opposite to a well-established view, at least in the discipline of political science and international relations, on the causal…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Commentary: “Japan’s New NSS: Zeitenwende or Time-Tested Tradition?”

February 17, 2023February 17, 2023 By Erik Isaksson

Japan’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) and its associated National Defense Strategy and National Buildup Program, which were announced on 16 December, have provoked commentary on the radical change in Japanese security policy.[1] The country’s first ever National Security Strategy was introduced in 2013, and a revision of that document had long been in the…

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Policy Series: “Inconsistent, Incoherent, and Unpredictable: U.S. Policies in East Asia under President Donald J. Trump”

June 27, 2018January 23, 2021 By James I. Matray

On 8 March 2018, National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong of the Republic of Korea (ROK) met with President Donald J. Trump at the White House to brief him on his recent talks with Kim Jong Un, leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), in Pyongyang. Trump learned that Kim had promised not to…

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Roundtable 10-9 on Powerplay: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia

March 5, 2018March 3, 2018 By Mira Rapp-Hooper, Zack Cooper, James Curran, Van Jackson

For alliance scholars who are interested in institutional design and U.S. foreign policy in Asia, Victor Cha’s 2010 International Security article, “Powerplay: The Origins of the U.S. Alliance System in Asia” is a valuable resource.[1] Cha has expanded his article-length treatment into a thoughtful and timely book, and in so doing has given us much…

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Roundtable 10-8 on China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination

February 5, 2018February 3, 2018 By Seo-Hyun Park, Timothy Brook, Victoria Hui, Yuanchong Wang, R. Bin Wong, Ji-Young Lee

Joining the growing list of international relations (IR) scholars who are turning to historical analyses of alternative, non-Westphalian diplomatic systems for insights into the creation and maintenance of political order is Ji-Young Lee, whose book, China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination, provides an empirically rich and theoretically insightful account of premodern East…

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Policy Series: “The Art of the Bluff: The U.S.-Japan Alliance under the Trump Administration”

April 24, 2017January 22, 2021 By Jennifer Lind

Tell us this cannot happen, the Japanese said to their American friends, listening to Republican Party nominee Donald J. Trump during the 2016 campaign. Trump attacked Japan as an economic predator, disdained American allies as free riders, and broadly rejected the U.S. grand strategy that had benefited Japan tremendously. Friends in Boston and Washington D.C….

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Roundtable 9-9 on Endurance and War: The National Sources of Military Cohesion

January 3, 2017December 24, 2020 By Alexander B. Downes, Brendan Rittenhouse Green, Phil Haun, Austin Long, Caitlin Talmadge, Jasen J. Castillo

The study of military effectiveness in political science has come a long way in a short period of time. When I started graduate school in the mid-1990s, most of the key works on the subject were written by historians and sociologists rather than political scientists.[1] Beginning in the late 1990s, however, military effectiveness began to…

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Roundtable 9-3 on Barriers to Bioweapons: The Challenges of Expertise and Weapons Development

October 3, 2016December 24, 2020 By Lynn Eden, Philip R. Egert, Jacques E. C. Hymans, Alexander H. Montgomery, Alex Spelling, Sonia Ben Ouargrham-Gormley

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley’s outstanding Barriers to Bioweapons demonstrates that while it may be relatively easy to pick your poison, there are very significant barriers to manufacturing it. Her main argument, as our reviewers so clearly explain, is that making bioweapons—that is, ‘weaponizing’ biological agents such as anthrax, smallpox, plague, and many others—has been far more…

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Roundtable 9-1 on Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History

September 19, 2016February 1, 2017 By Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Ja Ian Chong, James Holmes, Yongjin Zhang, Feng Zhang

It is a pleasure to read Feng Zhang’s Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History. This book is an exemplar in its serious treatment of Chinese history, its holistic approach to East Asian history covering Inner Asia as well as Korea and Japan, its simultaneous analysis of the foreign policy strategies…

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Roundtable 8-7 on Dictators at War and Peace

January 11, 2016September 14, 2020 By Dan Reiter, Alexander B. Downes, H. E. Goemans, Alex Weisiger, Jessica L.P. Weeks

The International Security Studies Forum (ISSF) of H-Diplo is very pleased to provide a roundtable discussion of Dr. Jessica Weeks’s book, Dictators at War and Peace. The book offers an important answer to the centuries-old international relations question as to how the politics within states affect the politics between states? Since at least the Enlightenment,…

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