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The Alliance Dilemma: A Stronger Japan and Regional Stability
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This paper is an attempt to explain the United States's puzzling silence on Japan's potential development of autonomous strike capability. I argue that this is due to the U.S.'s fear of entrapment vis-à-vis Japan, which ...
Ambassador Doraemon: Japan's Pop Culture Diplomacy in China and South Korea
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Despite a growing literature on Japanese soft power and public diplomacy, little research quantifies its effects or orients it in policy discussions. This paper investigates the relationship of consumption of Japanese ...
The Impact of the Internet on Chinese Nationalism: The Emergence of Contentious Spaces Onlines
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This paper seeks to answer the question of why anti-Japanese nationalism related to historical memory of World War II has grown at such a rapid pace among Chinese internet-users despite several elements commonly understood ...
Korean Perception on Defense Cooperation with Japan
(Georgetown University, 2017)
The Republic of Korea and Japan are two most important security allies of the United States in East Asia, yet they lack substantial defense cooperation between each other. This thesis looks at the current condition of ...
THE COMFORT WOMEN AGREEMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOTIVATIONS THAT LED TO PARK GEUN-HYE’S ACQUIESCENCE
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Since normalization in 1965, bilateral relations between Japan and South Korea have been perennially mired in historical acrimony. However, in December 2015, the South Korean and Japanese Foreign Ministries consummated ...
"Ubiquitous and Unremarked Upon": Militarized Prostitution and the American Occupations of Japan and Korea
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This thesis employs feminist international relations theory to examine the United States' reliance on foreign women to fulfill its international agenda. Specifically, this thesis parallels the development of military ...
Romancing India, Reinventing Japan, Explaining Continuity in the India-Japan Partnership
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Why did the Hatoyama Yukio administration in Japan continue to build its partnership with India, despite changes in policy toward the U.S. and China? This paper argues that continuity prevailed because partnership with ...
China’s Behavior in Maritime Dispute with its Neighbors: The Double-edged Sword Model
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This paper presents the “double-edged sword model” as a theoretical explanation for China’s puzzling behavior in maritime disputes with its neighbors. This paper argues that two factors are salient in determining a state’s ...
THE ISSUE OF HUMAN VALUES IN US-JAPAN RELATIONS: A RAPIDLY CHANGING REALITY AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PACIFIC
(Georgetown University, 2012)
The bilateral relation between the US and Japan during the second half of the past century was managed in unorthodox and symbiotic ways, after being conceived in a unique setting at the end of World War II. After the boom ...
Sino-Japanese Relations and the Security Dilemma
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This thesis investigates Sino-Japanese security relations and evaluates the explanatory power of the security dilemma theory, which is often invoked in the argument concerning the bilateral relationship. Upon demonstrating ...