Nicholas Khoo

Bio: Nicholas Khoo is an academic researcher from University of Otago. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & International relations. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 24 publications receiving 247 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicholas Khoo include University of Liverpool.

Enter the Vanguard State: Reinterpreting ASEAN’s Response to the South China Sea Issue:

Abstract: This article analyzes the Association of Southeast Asian Nation’s (ASEAN) interactions with China over the South China Sea issue since the end of the Cold War. A neorealist understanding of ASEAN’s international relations is advanced. This approach highlights the degree of security maximizing interest convergence between key ASEAN actors and an extra-regional actor, the United States, to explain the varying outcomes in the empirical record. Our approach is contrasted to alternatives in the existing literature that either overemphasize or underemphasize ASEAN’s autonomy in regional politics.

China's Policy toward Japan: Looking for a Great Power Peace in the Wrong Places

Abstract: While their reasons differ, scholars as varied as G. John Ikenberry and William Wohlforth have seen eye to eye on the reality of an extended period of peace among great powers, of which China and Japan are, to varying degrees. A not insignificant number of scholars of the Asian region endorse this perspective. Yet, to concur with this consensus requires one to make some brave assumptions about the troubled Sino-Japanese relationship. Contrary to claims in the literature, left to their own devices, a great power peace between Beijing and Tokyo is unlikely to emerge. A more accurate and compelling way to characterize this bilateral relationship is through the realist concept of a power transition, emphasizing different rates of economic growth and competing state interests. Here, China is an unambiguous rising great power, and Japan a declining one, whose future at once hinges on how China interacts with it, and on the existence of a robust U.S.-Japan alliance.

Asian Security and the Rise of China: International Relations in an Age of Volatility

Abstract: 'Congratulations to the authors for a clearly argued and comprehensive treatment of China's post-Cold War rise and what it means for existing and future dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region. Effectively employing realist theory in a fair-minded treatment of regional developments, the volume shows how and why power realities are more important than non-material factors in determining the region's trajectory and thereby demonstrates that China's ascendance in Asia remains complicated and conflicted.'

The Evolution of International Security Studies

Abstract: International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, ‘new agenda’ or critical. • The first book to tell the post-1945 story of International Security Studies and offer an integrated historical sociology of the whole field • Opens the door to a long-overdue conversation about what ISS is and where it should be going • Provides a detailed institutional account of ISS in terms of its journals, departments, think tanks and funding sources

국제정치이론 = Theory of international politics

Abstract: Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and de‹ciency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself the enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency. (Ibn al-Haytham)1