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  • Follow the Leader, Lose the Region

    Charting a Canadian Strategy for the Asia-Pacific

    As competition among the traditional great powers in the Asia region intensifies, Canada faces a stark choice: Should it align its foreign policy with the US-led free and open Indo-Pacific strategy? Shared values and material ties give Canada a clear incentive to follow the lead of the United States and Western-aligned democracies in the region. However, there are other considerations to take into ... Read more

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  • Non-traditional Security In East Asia: A Regime Approach

    In a changing security environment shaken by the United States' pivot to Asia, China's rise, growing economic interdependence, new institutional frameworks, and long-standing tensions, regional security dynamics within East Asia have changed profoundly. Non-Traditional Security in East Asia assesses how and why these and other developments have affected East Asian security regimes in the early ... Read more

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  • Chinese-Japanese Competition and the East Asian Security Complex

    Vying for Influence

    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This volume examines contemporary diplomatic, economic, and security competition between China and Japan in the Asia-Pacific region.The book outlines the role that Sino-Japanese competition plays in East Asian security, an area of study largely overlooked in contemporary writing on Asian security, which tends to focus on US–China relations and/or US hegemony in Asia. The volume focuses on Chinese ... Read more

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  • Middle Powers and the Rise of China

    China’s rise is changing the dynamics of the international system. Middle Powers and the Rise of China is the first work to examine how the group of states referred to as “middle powers” are responding to China’s growing economic, diplomatic, and military power. States with capabilities immediately below those of great powers, middle powers still exercise influence far above most other states. ... Read more

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  • Chinese Foreign Relations with Weak Peripheral States

    Asymmetrical Economic Power and Insecurity

    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This book examines China’s relations with its weak peripheral states through the theoretical lens of structural power and structural violence.China’s foreign policy concepts toward its weak neighbouring states, such as the ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy, are premised on the assumption that economic exchange and a commitment to common development are the most effective means of ensuring stability on ... Read more

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