International Relations of East Asia
This post reviews what the international academic conference on "Informal Political Actors in East Asia, Russia, and the Middle East" at Sheffield University in January 2015 can tell us about international politics.
This article examines current streams of Chinese International Relations theorising and asks what these approaches to world order can contribute to our understanding of the territorial disputes in the East China Sea.
In this video interview, Florian Schneider and Russ Glenn discuss China’s military modernization in the context of changing PRC foreign policy goals. The interview follows up on the 2013 US report on China's military, the PRC’s 2013 White Paper on the Armed Forces, and the discussion of China’s role in the world that these publications have elicited in the English-language press.
The politics, economics, and cultures of East Asian societies today play a profound role in international relations. Consequently, ideas from the region on how to structure international politics have not only become more prominent in academic discussions, they increasingly affect how world affairs work.