China in the Middle East: Aspiring to become a great powerbroker -- Japan: Eyeing a new role in Middle East Affairs …"China with its Belt and Road, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas all have a stake in the development of the … Middle East and Central Asia, whether Persian, Arab or Turkic. While the U.S. acts as if the Middle East were somehow its own …

framework or, in an institutionalized form, security community, in Northeast Asia, the authors in this volume are realistic as … disappointment. The past two years again saw the rising of tensions in Northeast Asia and the masterful way in which even an … and maybe even more than ever the search for a stable security framework for Northeast Asia as a precondition for peaceful …