Authors Flashcards
Medeiros
Cyclical and structural drivers of US-China relation leading to a more competitive era
Chen and Cohen
Examination of 1992 consensus and 23 agreements of 2008-15
Feng
analyzes the change in policy discourse of the Trump administration and its destructive effects on US-China relations.
Raymond and Welch
Two important inflection points of China’s attitude in SCS : 2012 and 2016
Kim
new trends and developments concerning the Senkaku Islands dispute, together with legal and political aspects of China’s assertive moves in recent years and its strategy to shift the previous status quo and weaken Japan’s control over the Senkakus.
Zhao
China shifted from a delaying strategy to an assertive stance in the SCS
Rahman
Overview of BRI
infrastructure connectivity, policy communications, finance, trade, and
people-to-people bonds
Li
Geo economic goals of China led to the BRI and ultimately to created a geopolitical strategy
Bassan
since the beginning of the twenty- first century, China’s soft- power strategy toward Africa has not only been used to protect China’s economic interests on the continent, but as an instrument for Beijing to advance alternative views on global issues under the rhetoric of a renewed Afro- Asian identity.
Pang
Why is China’s soft power not necessarily soft but getting sharp?
Conteh-Morgan
examine U.S.-China rivalry in Africa by analyzing: (i) the differences in worldview between the two nations; (ii) their competition for energy sources in Africa; and (iii) the strategies utilized by both powers in their rivalry on the continent.
Wakefield
Japan Article 9, Abe should stop being so divising and should go the amendment route
Mo
South Korea has indeed been able to overcome the tensions between regional and global priorities. Its relative success is due to the fact that it is a middle power, not a great power, in the East Asian region. Being a regional as well as a global middle power, Seoul has been able to achieve strategic consistency in dealing with both regional and global challenges, i.e., employing a middle power strategy in both arenas
Pacheco Pardo
SK FP has been pretty consistent since 1987, its key goals have been strengthening national security, autonomy,
Korean reunication, promoting economic openness at the global level, and inuencing international
affairs.
KIM
Threat perception in NK
NK’s interpretation of threats is framed by the Juche ideology: compels people to struggle against hostile environment instead of staying passive.
NK use violation of the armistice to encourage cohesion within the country.
Fiori and Kim
why North Korea is “resistant to change” and will not follow in the Middle East’s footsteps
Zhou
not read but argue that China could
worsen its foreign relations if it were to overemphasize the principle of
China’s core interests in foreign policy practice
Acharya
non western ir
Kang
Hierarchy and tributary system
Goldstein
Xi has not changed the chinese FP strategy but its approach
Iida
Xi enhances its authority by promoting a distinctive FP
Sutter
China has a consistent FP strategy, but external variables make it subject to change
