3 Foreign Trade as Economic (Inter)dependence in Asia
East Asian Problems
Pawel Behrendt
4 The Significance of Sea Lanes of Communication for Regional
Security in East Asia Andras Bartok
5 Amongst Dragons and Bears: Japan's Defense Policy during Heisei Era
Adam Stempler
6 The South China Sea Dispute between China and the Philippines
Krzysztof Kozlowski
7 Post-Cold War North Korea - People's Republic of China Relations
from a Game Theory Perspective
Zsolt Horvath
8 The Changing Picture of China: Can China's Investment in Soft
Power Change the World's Perception about the Asian Giant?
South Asian Security
Antonina Luszczykiewicz
9 The China-India Border Conflict: Prospects for War and Peace in
the 21st Century
Adrian Brona
10 Development of the Belt and Road Initiative: Security Challenges
in South Asia
Ramachandra Byrappa
11 The Melting of South Asia's Frontier Zone and Its Consequences
Dora Gunsberger
12 CPEC through the Lenses of Security: Internal and External
Challenges
Notes on Contributors
Index
Olga Barbasiewicz, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She holds an MA and a PhD in political science as well as an MA in Japanese studies. In her current research, she focuses on memory politics, Japanese-Korean relations and migration studies in wartime East Asia (Japan, Shanghai).
Marcin Grabowski, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the director of the Centre for International Studies and Development at the JU. His research interests focus on the Asia-Pacific Rim, especially institutional arrangements in the region, American and Chinese foreign policy, theories of IR, and International Economics.
Ewa Trojnar is an associate professor at the Institute of Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the head of the Chair of Japan and the Taiwan Studies Centre. She obtained her PhD and habilitation in political science, and an MA in economics in the field of European studies. She is a researcher and teacher of political science as well as of international relations in the Asia-Pacific region.