What is the Balance of Power in East Asia and What to Expect for the Near Future?

Over the next few decades, Japan, USA and other countries in Asia will face an increasingly confident and powerful China, building up more effective capabilities. Similarly China, USA and others from the region, will face an increasingly restless Japan, which aims to become a "normal force" in Asia and the world and which might choose to expand its capabilities in the future. 

East Asia's Balance of Power and the Near Future

How the United States Participated in the Recovery of Japan after World War II?

Surrender of Japan, 1945

Participation in the balance of power is rather typical approach for the U.S. foreign policy in different historic periods as well as regions around the world. Asia-Pacific is not exclusion in the American strategy. After World War II, the U.S. policy towards East Asia had some clear goals such as preventing regional domination by a local power, keeping open the area for U.S. trade and investment, as well as dissemination of democratic governance, to ensure stability in the Far East.

The American Approach Towards Japan after World War II

What are the International Relations in East Asia and the Chances of a Multipolar World Order?

East Asia

In his book “The Post-American World” the American author Fareed Zakaria argues that the unipolar model, which has dominated the International Relations for the last twenty years, could gradually be substituted by an international order which strongly resembles multipolar. In the same time, however, the American advantage over the new contestants for global power would still be clearly visible. These expectations were fueled by the boom of science and technology, the rapid economic development and politically aware population, which contributed to the shift of wealth from West to East in recent decades.

Introduction to the International Relations of East Asia and the prospects of a Multipolar World Order:

What is International Relations?

The international relations broadly can be defined as a discipline which studies the developments taking place beyond national borders. It is highly fragmented field, encompassing matters of political, security, legislative, economic, socio-cultural, commercial and many more spheres of societal life. 

What is International Relations? A brief answer. Theory.: