China's new assertiveness and the sudden inward turn of United States are a function of
causes located in both the second and third images. The key second-image variable is …

How strenuously, and at what risk, should the United States resist China's efforts to dominate
the South China Sea? An identification of three options along a continuum—from increased …

The past decade has seen a notable increase in tensions in the South China Sea.
Superficially the new situation has been triggered by Chinese territorial claims centering …

At least since Halford Mackinder's work, The Geographic Pivot of the History, geopolitical
analysis has identified the Eurasian landmass as a key prize in geopolitics. Historically, the …

Policymakers increasingly view China's rapidly growing wealth as a threat. China currently
ranks second, or perhaps even first, in the world in gross domestic product (although 78th in …

Many have noticed the rise of China and warned of underlying danger to regional stability in
Northeast Asia leading to global instability. A discourse about whether China and the US will …

This paper aims to understand the impact of the behavior of" saving face" and how it has
motivated China's responsive measures in foreign relations. Considering the behavior of …

As the introduction to this book explains, within the evolving international system, the
challenges posed to the dominant powerful states by those that manage to achieve …

The so-called “Thucydides's Trap” frames much of the discourse on US–China relations.
Some observers are concerned that Chinese military behavior over the Taiwan Strait …

Underwater cultural heritage is immersed also in a legal environment of Public and Private
International law, with a long tradition of scholarship. This history illuminates the rationale …