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Becoming Electable: The Causes of the Successes and Failures of Opposition Parties in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
(Georgetown University, 2018)
In the past twenty years, opposition parties in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have been experiencing different levels of success in elections, despite similarities in the three countries’ institutions (particularly the ...
Beyond Realism: A Psychological Approach to Understanding Cambodia-China Relations and Its Implications for ASEAN Solidarity
(Georgetown University, 2019)
The rise of China has brought about changes in the balance of power in Southeast Asia, and the realist approach to foreign policy cannot explain why some Southeast Asian countries are balancing the increasing economic and ...
Dynamic Institutionalization: The Foundations of Japan's Radioactive Problem
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This thesis examines Japan’s policies of implementing a closed nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear hedging. Many scholars have argued that Japan specifically pursues closed fuel cycle development in order to maintain the ...
The Democratic Pressure: New Constraints on Japan's Military Buildup in the 21st Century
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Why has the Abe administration maintained its defense spending at 1 percent of its GDP despite the deteriorating regional security environment, conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s willingness to play an active role ...
Historical Memory and Domestic Civic Trust in Japan-South Korea Security Relations
(Georgetown University, 2018)
South Korea and Japan were unable to implement the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) or pursue an Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) in 2012 despite recent violent provocations from ...
A Lilliputian Tethers Gulliver: State Governments in Taiwan’s Foreign Policy Towards the US
(Georgetown University, 2019)
Despite severing official ties in 1979, Taiwan’s relationship with the United States remains robust. However, little research has been done into the methods Taiwan employs to maintain the support of the United States, which ...
The Threshold of Jihadism: Securing Patronage in Southern Thailand and the Philippines
(Georgetown University, 2019)
The issue of southern Thailand becoming the next battleground for international jihadist terrorist organizations—such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Jemaah Islamiyah—has reemerged as a prominent ...
Measuring Chinese Aggression: Military Exercises as Cost Imposition on Alignment with the United States
(Georgetown University, 2019)
Although the sentiment that People’s Republic of China (PRC) foreign policy has become increasingly aggressive in recent years, particularly upon the leadership of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping, ...
Victim and Accomplice? The Role of Overseas Chinese in China’s Foreign Interference Activities in the Xi Jinping Era
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Drawing upon previous diaspora studies’ findings and a wide range of primary data including government policy documents, archives, and news articles, this paper first provides an overview of the history and origins of ...
An Exploitable Theory: Thucydides' Trap Model Perceived by the Chinese Government
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This thesis examines the model of Thucydides' Trap and its effect on current international relations. Answering the question that why China and the United States, two supposed parties in Thucydides' Trap model, react ...