Abstract The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) currently faces a series of
major, historically unprecedented, challenges. Perhaps the most consequential of these new …

This paper inquires theoretically into how leaders act and react to the state role of rising
power through the case study of India. It brings together role theory and leadership trait …

Why has the Western strategy of engagement towards China been less effective than initially
heralded? Juxtaposing theoretical advances in the International Relations (IR) scholarship …

Challenging a popular view that China's rise will lead the United States and China to fall into
the 'Thucydides trap'—a possible hegemonic war between the two—this paper proposes an …

While existing studies show that China has been a norm-taker in accommodating to the
norms of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to manage the South China …

This book analyzes the Chinese-centered globalization 'from below'brought about by
China's entrepreneurial migrants and conceived of as a projection of Chinese power in the …

Purpose: Communism, being one of the most repressive systems, influences the whole spec-
trum of behaviors of individuals, groups, and society. Countries that changed their politi-cal …

There have been few efforts to overcome the binary of China versus the West. The recent
global political environment, with a deepening confrontation between China and the West …

This book argues that China's international socialization of the political elites of Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI) partner states is an exceptionally effective instrument of China's current …

Scholarly efforts to predict the future character of the US-China relationship abound. Few
however looks to leaders' beliefs as valid explanatory variables. In this paper, we argue that …