This book contains the latest cutting-edge research, compiling the most interesting contents of reports by researchers from 42 countries around the world at the International Studies Association Asia Pacific international conference held in Tokyo in 2023. Topics such as the Anthropocene, Covid-19, security, regional collaboration, democracy and autocracy, gender, and the Global South are included. Researchers from the United States, Europe, and Japan, along with emerging powers, China, India, and ASEAN nations, have conducted multifaceted analyses of topics involving climate change, Covid-19, the achievements and challenges of the growth of Asia, China and India, regional cooperation such as the Belt and Road Initiative, SAARC, BIMSTEC, ASEAN, RCEP, IPEF, and ASEAN, security issues, democracy and autocracy, and the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Gaza. The book also includes lectures by leading figures in international politics such as Joseph Nye, Amitav Acharya, and T.V. Paul; a panel of distinguished professors, with Mike Mochizuki, Mikel Swaine, Steven Rosefielde, Sang Chul Park, and Hundah Su among them; as well as papers by young, up-and-coming researchers, making it a collection of trailblazing research on the world order in the twenty-first century, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and changing democracy. It is a must-read book on raising issues and solving problems from Asia, a world leader.

Offers cutting-edge, SDG-based proposals from Asia regarding the Anthropocene Advocates peaceful resolution of the RussiaUkraine war and the ChinaTaiwan issue in democracy vs. autocracy Calls for development through regional cooperation and mutual understanding in regional conflicts

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Kumiko Haba, Professor Emeritus, Aoyama Gakuin University

Pradeep S.Chauhan, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Inhalt

I. Security, Geopolitics, and Energy Policy.- 1 Haozheng Jiang. Value cycle alienation in the East Asian development model: the case of China.- 2 Min Shu. Energy Transition in China: Charting the Ambitions of a Rising Energy Great Power.- 3 Franziska Schultz. From dialogue to pressure and back: (In)consistency of Japanese North Korea policy 2012-2023.- 4 Machiko Kojima. Indo-Pacific Strategy and France's milieu goals: Resisting US-China bipolarization through multilateralism.- 5 Phakkanan Leongpanyawong and Natthanan Kunnamas. Hedging with the Giants: Thailand's Foreign Policy on the Thai Canal Project and its Repercussions on the Asia Pacific Security Scenario.- 6 Mauro Elli. Energy Security and Development: Pakistan's Early Atomic Programme between International Cooperation and Competition.- 7 Akanksha Singh. Geopolitics of Energy Transition and Multilateral Power Trade for Carbon Neutrality in ASEAN: PESTEL Policy Analysis.- 8 Juan Luis Lopez-Aranguren. Japanese Science & Technology Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.- 9 Vuslat Nur Sahin-Temel. Underrepresented Japan: A Critical Analysis of Its Place in Security Studies.- 10 Tim Reilly, Shamil Yenikeyeff, Keun Wook-Paik. The next energy battle: How Russia and China could shape the Northeast Asian gas market.- 11 You Xu. Trust and Mistrust in the US-Japan Alliance: Exploring the logic behind Japan's Emerging Security Strategy.- 12 Hiroaki Kato. The Gulf War and the Discovery of Self-Defense Forces Overseas Deployment Changes in the Japan-U.S. Security System at the End of the Cold War.- 13 David Leheny. "Secularism, Spectacle, and the Politics of Public Mourning: Global IR and the Contested State Funeral of Abe Shinz".- 14 Geetanjali Singh. Changing Dynamics of Global Energy Security and Renewable Energy: A Geopolitical Perspective.- II. War and Peace: Democracy and Autocracy.- 15. Steven Rosefielde. Western Economic Sanctions: Compel and Punish.- 16. Kazuhiko Togo. Japan and China need to cooperate to enhance peace and security in East Asia.- 17. Ken Ishida. From Defeat to Democracy: The Formation of New Constitutions in Italy, Germany and Japan.- 18. Ludovica Marchi. The European Union's wider governance between war and peace: The intersection between historical institutionalism and practice.- 19. Yusuke Ishikawa. International Assistance to Ukraine's Fight against Corruption: A Review of the cases of EU, US, UK, and Japan.- 20. Victor Gorshkov and Satoshi Mizobata. Social Trust in the Russian Society in the Age of Turbulence.- 21. Miyuki Nakamura. State Capitalism in Singapore: An Institutional Model of State-Led Development in a Small State.- 22. Juichi Inada. Chinese Influence on the Development Process of Cambodia: Analyses of the Relationship between a Decline in International Aid Coordination and the Shift to Autocracy.- 23. Lyailya Nurgaliyeva. China's growing economic influence in Kazakhstan through its Belt and Road Initiative and local perceptions of Chinese projects.- 24. Ying Liu, Xinyu Zhang. A comparative study on the role of China and Russia in addressing crisis in Syria.- 25. Tomoko Takahashi. Both Directions Matter: World Trade Organization Disputes as the Cause and Effect of China's Pursuit of Material Assets.- III. Gender, Culture, and Education. 26. Torunika Roy. Gender Equality: A Hope to Bring Peace on the Korean Peninsula.- 27. Dashdalom Dashdulam. Mongolian script that changed under foreign political pressure.- 28. Mogana Sunthari Subramaniam and Ayat Batool. Government policies on education for displaced Rohingya children in Malaysia.- 29. Reona Shinam and Alok K. Pandey. Creating a Home by the Female Migrant of Northeastern States in Hyderabad City, India.