Category: Edited Volumes

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Building a Regional Order in East Asia: Community, Competition, Conflict

There are three broad divergent scenarios at work in East Asian international relations today and each suggest different outcomes. The essays in this volume offer a broad and diverse analysis of the conflicting intere ...

Easing Tensions in Northeast Asia: The Way Forward

In 2014, the NCAFP held two Track 1.5 conferences, on a trilateral with representatives from the U.S., China and Japan, and the second a quadrilateral with participants from those three countries plus South Korea in an e ...

Sweet and Sour: Candid Talks to Improve U.S.-China Relations

U.S.-China relations have experienced many ups and downs over the past several decades. And the year 2010 was a particularly troublesome time for those relations. Are China and the United States friends, potential ene ...

The invitation to me from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy duly arrived. It created a major political storm…. Two days before the conference, President Clinton authorized a 48 hour visa that restricted me to the New York area. The backlash from the British government and system was hysterical. The Daily Telegraph summed it up by describing it as ‘the worst rift since Suez’….[There] can be no doubt that the granting of the visa was a major shift in U.S. foreign policy and it marked a defining moment in the development of the Irish peace process."

Gerry Adams, President, Sinn Féin