ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2020-10-16DOI: 10.1142/s1013251120500046
Kang Chen
{"title":"Whither Chinese Market Socialism?","authors":"Kang Chen","doi":"10.1142/s1013251120500046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251120500046","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to shed light on where China’s reform process is heading by tracing the trajectory of its market-oriented reforms. It shows that Chinese market socialism is facing a dilemma. Develo...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"21 1","pages":"2050004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81053411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2020-10-13DOI: 10.1142/s1013251120500022
András Székely-Doby
{"title":"The Chinese Developmental State: Threats, Challenges, and Prospects","authors":"András Székely-Doby","doi":"10.1142/s1013251120500022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251120500022","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last 40 years, China’s development has been breath-taking. Its poor, centrally planned economy has been transformed into a middle-income capitalist one with a strong resemblance to highly ...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"11 1","pages":"2050002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76012463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2020-09-18DOI: 10.1142/s1013251120500058
A. Wang, F. Lai, Fushun Hsu, Peter Shaojui Wang
{"title":"Mobilizing Sophisticated Donors: What Candidate Facebook Posts Do Attract Intra- and Inter-District Donations?","authors":"A. Wang, F. Lai, Fushun Hsu, Peter Shaojui Wang","doi":"10.1142/s1013251120500058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251120500058","url":null,"abstract":"Why do so many voters finance candidates, even out-of-district ones? We exploit two datasets from a candidate in the 2014 Taiwan City Mayor Election derived from 14,838 detail donation records and the candidate’s 296 Facebook posts during the campaign. We replicate previous findings at the district level, indicating that donations are influenced by both physical proximity and ideology. The post-level analysis shows that the neighboring effect does not build as a spillover of public policy or administrative reforms. Instead, residents donate more merely because they are closer to a campaign. Meanwhile, a candidate’s ideological posts can successfully increase donations within a few hours from a district where there are more friendly voters.","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89402309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2020-09-11DOI: 10.1142/s1013251120400123
Ping-Kuei Chen
{"title":"The Prospects of the US Alliance System in Asia: Managing from the Hub","authors":"Ping-Kuei Chen","doi":"10.1142/s1013251120400123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251120400123","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the implications of the United States’ “hub-and-spoke” alliance system in Asia. It argues that the US enjoys a bargaining advantage in the current bilateral security relations w...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"38 1","pages":"2040012"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80324140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2020-09-11DOI: 10.1142/s101325112040010x
Baiq Wardhani, Vinsensio Dugis
{"title":"Interpreting Indonesia’s “Look East” Policy: The Security Dimension of Foreign Aid","authors":"Baiq Wardhani, Vinsensio Dugis","doi":"10.1142/s101325112040010x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s101325112040010x","url":null,"abstract":"As Indonesia’s economy gradually improves, the government has been actively promoting its horizontal cooperation among developing countries by playing a prominent role as a non-DAC (Development Ass...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"4 1","pages":"2040010"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84240659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2020-09-11DOI: 10.1142/s1013251120020038
Chyungly Lee
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue — Multidimensional Security Issues in Asia","authors":"Chyungly Lee","doi":"10.1142/s1013251120020038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251120020038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"2002003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85752240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2020-09-11DOI: 10.1142/s1013251120400135
M. Manantan
{"title":"The People’s Republic of China’s Cyber Coercion: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the South China Sea","authors":"M. Manantan","doi":"10.1142/s1013251120400135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251120400135","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the increasing use of cyber coercion by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) among its core interests: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the South China Sea. It argues that the PRC’s d...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"22 5 1","pages":"2040013"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90579730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1142/s1013251120400111
Hon-min Yau
{"title":"Evolving Toward a Balanced Cyber Strategy in East Asia: Cyber Deterrence or Cooperation?","authors":"Hon-min Yau","doi":"10.1142/s1013251120400111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251120400111","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the limits of implementing a cyber deterrence strategy in East Asia. Given that national security documents from both Taiwan and Japan indicate the need to deter state-sponsored cyberattacks, there is very little literature that empirically and theoretically investigates the utility of such an approach in this region. This paper looks into the various deterrence constructs and argues that none of them can be implemented without problems. The paper looks further into a deeper level of the conceptual issues upon which deterrence thinking is based and argues that an alternative strategy promoting regional cooperation is not only possible but also desirable in the current political climate. It is later concluded that looking for a one-size-fits-all solution is idealistic, and policymakers should develop security countermeasures that align with the threats posed by the actors they wish to confront.","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73928996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2020-07-18DOI: 10.1142/s1013251120400056
T. J. Pempel
{"title":"Asia’s Lesser Powers Confront US–China Threat to the Regional Order","authors":"T. J. Pempel","doi":"10.1142/s1013251120400056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251120400056","url":null,"abstract":"Tensions between the United States and China have been on the rise under Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, challenging longstanding regional moves to peace and prosperity. In response, a number of less ...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"16 1","pages":"2040005"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88997312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2020-07-18DOI: 10.1142/s1013251120020026
Chiung-Chiu Huang, C. Kou
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue — The Asia-Pacific Middle Powers’ Strategic Options in the Era of China–US Rivalry","authors":"Chiung-Chiu Huang, C. Kou","doi":"10.1142/s1013251120020026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251120020026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"42 1","pages":"2002002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90951317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}