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Robert Y. Eng

The Intractability of the Sino-Japanese Senkaku/Diaoyu Territorial Dispute: Historical Memory, People’s Diplomacy and Transnational Activism, 1961-1978

Roncevert Almond

U.S. Accession to the Law of the Sea Convention? A Challenge for America’s Global Leadership

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Hiromi Mizuno

Rasa Island: What Industrialization To Remember and Forget

Peter Lee

China Not Leaving the “South China Sea”

Alex Calvo

China, the Philippines, Vietnam, and International Arbitration in the South China Sea

Taoka Shunji

‘China Threat Theory’ Drives Japanese War Legislation

Kimie Hara

Okinawa, Taiwan, and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in United States–Japan–China Relations

Mel Gurtov

Rules and Rocks: The US-China Standoff Over the South China Sea Islands

Hamish McDonald

The Wired Seas of Asia: China, Japan, the US and Australia

Reinhard Drifte

The Japan-China Confrontation Over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands – Between “shelving” and “dispute escalation”

Herbert P. Bix

Abe Shinzo and the U.S.-Japan Relationship in a Global Context

John W. Dower

The San Francisco System: Past, Present, Future in U.S.-Japan-China Relations

Kimie Hara

From Cold War Thaws to the Arctic Thaw: The Changing Arctic and Its Security Implications for East Asia

Lin Man-houng

Taiwan and the Ryukyus (Okinawa) in Asia-Pacific Multilateral Relations – a Long-term Historical Perspective on Territorial Claims and Conflicts

Yabuki Susumu

China-Japan Territorial Conflicts and the US-Japan-China Relations in Historical and Contemporary Perspective

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Mel Gurtov

Trouble at Sea

Mark Selden

Economic Nationalism and Regionalism in Contemporary East Asia

Carlyle A. Thayer

ASEAN’S Code of Conduct in the South China Sea: A Litmus Test for Community-Building?

Kimie Hara

The San Francisco Peace Treaty and Frontier Problems in the Regional Order in East Asia: A Sixty Year Perspective−−６０

Wada Haruki

Resolving the China-Japan Conflict Over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands

Harsh V. Pant

China's Naval Expansion in the Indian Ocean and India-China Rivalry

Brantly Womack

Vietnam and China in an Era of Economic Uncertainty

Kimie Hara

Untying the Kurillian Knot: Toward an Åland-Inspired Solution for the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute

B McCartan

A Helping Chinese Hand: Trade and Aid with Southeast Asia

Reinhard Drifte

Territorial Conflicts in the East China Sea – From Missed Opportunities to Negotiation Stalemate

Ian Storey

China, The Impeccable Affair and Renewed Rivalry in the South China Sea

David Adam Stott

China, Japan, and Indonesia's LNG Ploys

Suisheng Zhao

China's Global Search for Energy Security: cooperation and competition in the Asia-Pacific

Michael Richardson

A Southward Thrust for China's Energy Diplomacy in the South China Sea

Matthew R. Augustine

Border-Crossers and Resistance to US Military Rule in the Ryukyus, 1945-1953

Ian Storey

Conflict in the South China Sea: China's Relations with Vietnam and the Philippines

Kimie Hara

Micronesia and the Postwar Remaking of the Asia Pacific: "An American Lake"

Arjun Makhijani and Mark Selden

Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy

Hisane MASAKI

Japan Vies With China for Dominance in Indochina and ASEAN

David Fullbrook

China's Strategic Southeast Asian Overture

Bertil Lintner

Chinese Advance in the South Pacific: Entrepreneurs Undaunted by Papua New Guinea Dangers

Kimie Hara

Cold War Frontiers in the Asia-Pacific: The Troubling Legacy of the San Francisco Treaty

Elizabeth Economy

China's Rise in Southeast Asia: Implications for Japan and the United States

David Rosenberg

Dire Straits: Competing Security Priorities in the South China Sea

Maeda Hisao

The 2002 Defense Ministry White Paper: Full speed ahead to the national warfare state