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East Asia and the "Constrainment" of China
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This article is published in International Security.The article was published on 1996-01-21. It has received 89 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Orient & Far East.read more
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Getting Asia Wrong: The Need for New Analytical Frameworks
TL;DR: The theory of international politics is written in terms of the great powers of an era as mentioned in this paper, which is inductively derived from the European experience of the past four centuries, during which Europe was the locus and generator of war, innovation, and wealth.
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Economic Interdependence and War: A Theory of Trade Expectations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a new dynamic theory to help overcome some of the theoretical and empirical problems with current liberal and realist views on the question of whether economic interdependence increase or decrease the probability of war among states.
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Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China's Compromises in Territorial Disputes
TL;DR: This paper argued that state leaders are more likely to compromise in territorial disputes when confronting internal threats to regime security, including rebellions and legitimacy crises, and that regime insecurity best explains China's pattern of compromise and delay in its territorial disputes, including the revolt in Tibet, the instability following the Great Leap Forward, the legitimacy crisis after the Tiananmen upheaval and separatist violence in Xinjiang.
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The Geography of the Peace: East Asia in the Twenty-first Century
TL;DR: In this article, a discussion of post-Cold War East Asia has focused on the prospects for regional tension and heightened great power conflict, and some scholars believe that tension will increase because of the relative absence of the three liberal/Kantian sources of peace: liberal democracies, economic interdependence, and multilateral institutions.
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Containment or Engagement of China?: Calculating Beijing's Responses
TL;DR: A robust debate is under way in Western and Asian nations about how best to deal with the awakened dragon as discussed by the authors, which poses substantial challenges to Asian and European nations as well as international regimes.
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Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that bipolarity, an equal military balance, and nuclear weapons have fostered the post-World War II order in Europe, and that domestic political factors, not calculations about military power or international economic system, are the principal determinants of peace.
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The political logic of economic reform in China
TL;DR: The political logic of economic reform in China is discussed in this paper, with a focus on authority relations between the Central Communist Party and government institutions in the People's Republic of China.
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The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China
TL;DR: In this article, Shirk pioneers a rational choice institutional approach to analyze policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country and to explain the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present.
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Hegemon on the Horizon?: China's Threat to East Asian Security
TL;DR: This article argued that a burgeoning China poses a long-term danger to Asia-Pacific security for two reasons: first, despite Japan's present economic strength, a future Chinese hegemony in East Asia is a strong possibility, while Japan's inherent weaknesses create doubts about the ability of the Japanese to increase or sustain.
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Wealth, Power, and Instability: East Asia and the United States after the Cold War
TL;DR: The authors argued that Asia is becoming more important to the United States at the same time that it is becoming less stable as an arena of great power interaction, which is a bad combination, precisely the opposite of that in Western Europe.