the potential of China's approach to stabilising security conditions in Pakistan and Afghanistan through development. The … Initiative (BRI) in South Asia, in particular the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). One aspect of the philosophy behind … province. As this issue can shed light on the kinds of problems that China will face in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the report …

, exploring how structural, behavioral, and historical factors shape the way in which Japan and Pakistan respond, respectively, to … China's and India's regional power politics. The paper concludes that the explanatory power of these factors depends on the … particular context: in the case of Japan, China's militarily assertive regional role has invoked the most significant strategic …