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Asia is at a geopolitical crossroads. After China launched its
ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, Japan and the
United States responded with the November 2017 promulgation of the
Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) Strategy. Perhaps not
surprisingly, these two initiatives share some common features, and
two of these - their ambiguity and their competitiveness - seem to
be crucial in the foreign policy evaluation process. Competition
leads to ambiguity, which makes reactions, and responses in foreign
policy more and more difficult. Middle-Power Responses to China's
BRI and America's Indo-Pacific Strategy addresses that gap.
Starting from the insight that neither the BRI nor the FOIP exists
in isolation, and drawing on the knowledge that when either China
or the United States sneezes, it is often the less powerful
geopolitical players that catch the worst colds, the chapters
gathered herein examine how the US-China geopolitical competition
affects nations as diverse as Taiwan, Hungary, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, and the member states of ASEAN. These insights are
provided by an international, multidisciplinary group of leading
experts that include military flag officers, academic researchers,
current and former government officials, and retired diplomats, all
of whom contribute to a well-rounded, multifaceted view of the
transformation that is currently taking place in the geopolitics of
the Asia-Pacific.
The armed forces of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan are in
dire need of reform to address a plethora of problems including
inadequate training, low morale, poor public perception, and low
recruitment numbers. This book uses the postmodern military model
to measure how public perception of the military is influenced by
self-identification in Taiwan, and it shows that the public has
little confidence or trust in their military, even as they remain
acutely aware of the threat posed by an increasingly belligerent
China and its ever-growing People's Liberation Army. While there
has been much analysis as to what strategies and weapons systems
should be adopted by ROC defense planners, relatively little has
been written on how to create a more relevant military within
Taiwan society. Ultimately, this book addresses these matters and
provides policymakers within the ROC government and military, as
well as researchers of Asia Pacific security, with an understanding
of the current relationship between military and society, to assist
in the creation of a more accountable military.
This volume takes readers beneath the surface of the South China
Sea by exploring critical but under-researched issues related to
the maritime territorial disputes. It draws attention to the
importance of private sector, civil society, and subnational
actors' roles in the disputes and sheds light on key policy issues
that are addressed less often in the literature. By going beyond
mainstream analyses focused solely on issues of traditional
security, resource economics, and international law, it offers a
fresh and engaging look at the South China Sea disputes. The book
is divided into five parts - historical foundations, enterprises,
localities, people, and policy - and its chapters investigate
historiography in the region, the global defense industry's role as
beneficiary of the disputes, tourism as a territorial strategy, the
roles of provinces and local governments, disaster management,
confidence-building measures, environmental and science diplomacy,
and other topics seldom discussed in other analyses of the South
China Sea disputes. The book's diverse content and fresh
perspectives make it an essential read not only for policymakers
and those in the international relations community but also for all
others interested in gaining a more well-rounded understanding of
the many issues at stake in the South China Sea maritime
territorial disputes.
Many possibilities for bilateral coordination between Taiwan and
Japan exist in the face of China's rapid military development,
growing international influence, and increasingly belligerent
regional behavior. This volume examines several facets of such
potential coordination between Japan and Taiwan, in such areas as
Security Policy, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity,
Nuclearization, Missile Defense, and others.
To have a State, four distinct conditions must be met. First, there
must be a community of people, and it matters not whether they
belong to the same color, faith, or ethnicity. Second, there must
be a geographical space, a settlement that this community of people
calls a home. Third, there must be governing authority. And
finally, the government must be sovereign – sovereign in the
sense that it is self-governing and independent of any domestic or
international body. Palestine, Taiwan, and Western Sahara have met
all the forestated conditions -- except for broad international
support and recognition and membership of the United Nations.
However, this has not been the case with Palestine, Taiwan, and
Western Sahara. This edited volume examines some of the endogenous
and exogenous factors that have contributed to the ambiguous and
contested nature of these political entities and argued that the
undermined nature of these entities contributes to regional
instability and global insecurity. And finally, the continued
denial of statehood is a violation of their collective human
rights.
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