fosters inter-group affinity. Our empirical setting is the Soviet aid to China during the 1950s, namely the 156 program, when …

This paper investigates the sequence of trade liberalization in postwar Japan and its determinants. As the Japanese …

This study quantitatively evaluates the relative importance of different causes of China's Great Famine, especially for …

This Paper examines some of the benefits and dangers of Taiwan's deepening economic ties to China. In brief, the …'s democratic sovereignty. China's rising Comprehensive National Power - which aims to suppress Taiwan's sovereignty and self …-government - has been significantly enhanced by investment from Taiwan itself. China's trade policies are directed for political …

The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has …. The South China Sea is defined as "Mediterranean." By comparing it to other maritime spaces, like the Baltic and the … from concepts of the cultural theory of Oswald Spengler. The paper will look at the South China Sea from two perspectives …

adopt new technologies, but also fundamentally threatened the national sovereignty of both Qing China and Tokugawa Japan. We …We provide a new framework to account for the diverging paths of political development and state building in China and … Japan during the second half of the nineteenth century. The arrival of Western powers not only brought opportunities to …