Asia Publications
Taiwan's Energy Conundrum
May 22, 2012Explore the complex set of opportunities and challenges inherent in Taiwan’s energy profile in the latest Asia Program Special Report. more
NKIDP e-Dossier No. 7: East German Documents on Kim Il Sung’s April 1975 Trip to Beijing
May 16, 2012NKIDP is pleased to announce the addition of 4 new documents on Kim Il Sung’s 1975 visit to Beijing to the Digital Archive. Introduced by Ria Chae, the documents demonstrate Kim’s changing unification strategy and his increasingly distant relationship with China in the mid-1970s. more
NKIDP e-Dossier No. 6: The Origins of the Northern Limit Line Dispute
May 09, 2012NKIDP is pleased to announce the addition of 16 new documents on the Northern Limit Line (NLL) Dispute to the Digital Archive. Introduced by Terence Roehrig, the documents provide insights into North Korean and United States thinking on this contentious maritime boundary in Korea. more
East Asian National Identities: Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism
Apr 30, 2012This rigorous comparative study of national identity in Japan, South Korea, and China examines countries with long histories influenced by Confucian thought, surging nationalism, and far-reaching ambitions for regional importance. East Asian National Identities compares national identities in terms of six dimensions encompassing ideology; history; the salience of cultural, political, and economic factors; superiority as a model national community; displacement of the U.S. in Asia; and depth of national identity. more
NKIDP e-Dossier No. 5: New Romanian Evidence on the Blue House Raid and the USS Pueblo Incident
Apr 20, 2012NKIDP is pleased to announce the addition of 28 new documents to the Digital Archive. The Romanian documents open an exciting new window into communist bloc policies and perspectives on the Pueblo crisis. more
e-Dossier No. 33 - North Vietnam's "Talk-Fight" Strategy and the 1968 Peace Negotiations with the United States
Apr 16, 2012CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of 13 new documents to its online Digital Archive. The newly translated documents released today reveal the Vietnamese Communist Party's "Talk-Fight" negotiation strategy, first described by First Secretary Le Duan in a 1965 speech and put into action during initial 1968 peace talks. more
China and Coexistence
Mar 21, 2012"Peaceful coexistence," long a key phrase in China's strategic thinking, is a constructive doctrine that offers China a path for influencing the international system. So argues Liselotte Odgaard in this timely analysis of China's national security strategy in the context of its foreign policy practice. more
e-Dossier No. 30 - Treatment of American POWs in North Vietnam
Feb 14, 2012CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new document to its online Digital Archive. The document released today is a 1969 North Vietnam Communist Party resolution containing detailed instructions for improving the treatment and living conditions of American prisoners of war. more
South Africa, the East African Community, and the U.S.-Africa Policy Conundrum
Feb 01, 2012The perception that Africa takes a backseat to Asia in President Barack Obama’s foreign policy view obscures a compelling strategic landscape the administration could construct were it ever to elevate the attention it apportions to Africa. more
China Orders the World: Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy
Jan 31, 2012This volume examines a series of complex debates surrounding the role of China's historical ideals in shaping its foreign policy. Presenting and analyzing the works of key Chinese philosophers and prominent international relations theorists, the contributors—prestigious scholars from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France—examine how an idealized version of China's imperial past now inspires a new generation of Chinese scholars and policymakers and their plans for China's future. more
