What recurring pattern did the interactions between imperial China and the surrounding
regimes follow? When imperial China was economically prosperous, what kind of policies …

The purpose of this study is to examine Chinese foreign policy by analyzing Chinese visions
and arguments on the nature of world politics. The study focuses on Chinese academic …

International relations scholars have recently taken increased interest in empire. However,
research has often focused on European colonial empires. This article aims to evaluate …

Before non-European regions adopted international law, a different set of law of territory
governed the non-European regions. Notwithstanding their differences, international courts …

Pundits and policymakers have articulated growing concerns about a coming clash between
the US and China. In this view, the US Pivot to Asia is a (merely hidden) attempt of the …

This commentary reviews An et al.'s (2021) article,'Towards Confucian Geopolitics'. It first
acknowledges the article's achievement in highlighting the importance of reading geopolitics …

Mainstream international theories have not been successful in explaining patterns of non-
Western international systems due to their deep-seated problem of Eurocentrism. Yet for …

This volume examines contemporary diplomatic, economic, and security competition
between China and Japan in the Asia-Pacific region. The book outlines the role that Sino …

The study of pre-modern Chinese hegemony is crucial for both theorizing hegemony and
envisioning a new global order. I argue the pre-modern Chinese hegemony was a …