Title: Making Waves: Recent Developments of the South China Sea Disputes
Issue: Migration and Security – Volume 8 Issue 1, 2016
Publisher: Yonsei University Press
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“Cross-Border Attacks” of Somali Pirates and the Transformation of China’s Diplomacy
Title: “Cross-Border Attacks” of Somali Pirates and the Transformation of China’s Diplomacy
Issue: Migration and Security – Volume 8 Issue 1, 2016
Publisher: Yonsei University Press
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One China, One Taiwan: A New Framework for the Settlement of the Taiwan Straits Dispute
Title: One China, One Taiwan: A New Framework for the Settlement of the Taiwan Straits Dispute
Issue: Technology and Governance – Volume 7 Issue 2, 2015
Publisher: Yonsei University Press
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A Defense of Utility Models: The Case of China
Title: A Defense of Utility Models: The Case of China
Issue: Technology and Governance – Volume 7 Issue 2, 2015
Publisher: Yonsei University Press
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On China’s New Era Anti-Terrorism Governance in the Middle East
Title: On China’s New Era Anti-Terrorism Governance in the Middle East
Issue: Technology and Governance – Volume 7 Issue 2, 2015
Publisher: Yonsei University Press
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Review:War-Monger or Judicious Realist? Liu Mingfu as a Historically-Minded America Watcher
Title: War-Monger or Judicious Realist? Liu Mingfu as a Historically-Minded America Watcher
Issue: Technology and Governance – Volume 7 Issue 2, 2015
Publisher: Yonsei University Press
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A Paradoxical American Foreign Policy: Pivot to Asia
Title: A Paradoxical American Foreign Policy: Pivot to Asia
Author: Jung Taek Lim
Affiliation: Yonsei University
Issue: Peace & Stability – Volume 7 Issue 1
Publisher: Yonsei University Press
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Since Obama assumed office, his foreign policy aim was to reinvigorate Asia under the title of “Pivot to Asia”. Obama and his cabinet members unequivocally articulated that the strategy is designed not to agitate China, but to build more amicable ambiance for further economic-relations. However, U.S.-Japan security ties check China’s ambition in the Southeast China Sea and Washington-Beijing diplomatic discord is inevitable. The Obama’s Asia strategy illustrates a paradox that exists between economic and security realms. This paper analyzes Obama’s foreign policy in Asia and its implications for the region.
An Analysis of How the EU Understands Its Strategic Partnership with China
Title: An Analysis of How the EU Understands Its Strategic Partnership with China
Author: Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang
Affiliation: RMIT University
Issue: Peace & Stability – Volume 7 Issue 1
Publisher: Yonsei University Press
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From the European perspective, the rise of China challenges the European Union (EU) on intellectual, technological, organizational, economic and political fronts but also offers ample opportunities for cooperation. The EU has attached increasing importance to building a strategic partnership with China. However, what Brussels means when it talks about forging a “strategic partnership” with China and on what conceptual ideas and principles it wants this “strategic partnership” to develop have not been made clear. This paper aims to offer insight into the EU’s ideas of strategic partnership with China. It will begin with a review of the EU approach to China. Next, it will make an assessment of the thinking behind EU-China communications to show the differences between their respective conceptualizations of strategic partnership. Then, it will demonstrate the difficulties caused by these differences and recommend how the two sides should manage them.
Brushed Past: US-CCP Relations, 1941-45
Title: Brushed Past: US-CCP Relations, 1941-45
Author: Jie Gao & Sean J. McLaughlin
Affiliation: Carroll University & University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Issue: Law & Order – Volume 6 Issue 1
Publisher: Yonsei University Press
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This article explores the controversial “lost chance theory” that CCP leader Mao Zedong genuinely wished to build a working relationship with the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, but was rebuffed by short-sighted decision makers in Washington who passed on the opportunity to cooperate with China’s future ruler. The authors note key historiographical developments and explain the major arguments both for and against the lost chance theory before advancing a post-revisionist position that its opponents have in recent years inadvertently created the false impression that there was never any real possibility that Washington and the CCP might have built a positive working relationship during the war years, while the window for CCP-US cooperation was far more ephemeral than lost chancers understood. This paper argues that Mao’s wartime expressions of his desire to work with the United States were indeed sincere through to the end of 1944, however by the spring of 1945 cooperation had become an impossibility because the Roosevelt administration badly misread Jiang Jieshi’s ability to unite the country and clung to unfounded suspicions that the CCP would serve as an obedient Soviet proxy in East Asia.
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The Chinese Government’s Policy Toward North Korean Defectors
Title: The Chinese Government’s Policy Toward North Korean Defectors
Author: Eunbee Chung
Affiliation: Yonsei University
Issue: Changes & Transitions – Volume 5 Issue 2
Publisher: Yonsei University Press
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The Chinese government’s repatriation policy for North Korean defectors has been a topic of controversy. Due to deteriorating living conditions in North Korea, many flee North Korea to find food or work. Many of them go to China, and yet they are greeted by hostility. While humanitarian activists and organizations urge the government to issue refugee status, Beijing identifies them as illegal economic migrants and forcibly returns them to North Korea where severe punishments await. The current essay assumes that Beijing’s repatriation of North Koreans is a breach to international refugee law, and explores political, economic, and social reasons contributing to the decision.
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