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Tag Archives: International Relations Theory

IRAP: “Unambivalent alignment: Japan’s China strategy, the US alliance, and the ‘hedging’ fallacy”

September 6, 2019by Adam P. Liff

My latest peer-reviewed article … an analysis of Japan’s strategy for dealing with China’s rise and critique of the idea that Japan is seeking a middle ground between the U.S. and China… […]

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Peer-reviewed Journal

ASAN Forum: “Balancing China: Moving Beyond the Containment Fallacy”

October 26, 2016by Adam P. Liff

My latest article… a brief overview of incremental balancing responses vis-a-vis China in the context of recent US calls for a “principled and inclusive security network”… has just been published in […]

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Policy Journal

Security Studies: “Whither the Balancers? The Case for a Methodological Reset”

July 19, 2016by Adam P. Liff

My latest peer-reviewed article… a critique of traditional methodologies and metrics often employed in contemporary security studies and analysis of four regional states’ military responses to China’s rise…has just been […]

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Peer-reviewed Journal

International Security: “Looking for Asia’s Security Dilemma”

November 22, 2015by Adam P. Liff

My latest… a series of three responses to scholarly critiques of my 2014 International Security article on military competition in the Asia-Pacific…has been published in the latest issue of IS. This […]

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Peer-reviewed Journal

International Security: “Racing Toward Tragedy? China’s Rise, Military Competition in the Asia-Pacific, and the Security Dilemma”

November 21, 2014by Adam P. Liff

My peer-reviewed article on military competition in the contemporary Asia Pacific, coauthored with Professor G. John Ikenberry of Princeton University, has been published in the Fall 2014 issue of International […]

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Foreign Affairs: “Not-So-Empty Talk: The Danger of China’s “New Type of Great-Power Relations” Slogan”

October 9, 2014by Adam P. Liff

My latest on U.S. policy toward China, coauthored with Professor Andrew S. Erickson of the U.S. Naval War College, has been published as the lead article in Foreign Affairs (online). […]

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Journal of Strategic Studies: “The Proliferation of Cyberwarfare Capabilities and Interstate War, Redux”

February 12, 2013by Adam P. Liff

Published a response to a critique of my earlier article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Strategic Studies on the likely implications of cyberwarfare for the frequency of interstate war. Liff, Adam P.  “The […]

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Peer-reviewed Journal

Journal of Strategic Studies: “Cyberwar: A New ‘Absolute Weapon’? The Proliferation of Cyberwarfare Capabilities and Interstate War”

May 21, 2012by Adam P. Liff

Published an article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Strategic Studies on the likely implications of cyberwarfare for the frequency of interstate war. Liff, Adam P. “Cyberwar: A New ‘Absolute Weapon’? The […]

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Thesis: “The Return to ‘Normalcy’? The 2004 National Defense Program Guidelines and Japan’s Defense Policy”

June 12, 2005by Adam P. Liff

I completed my senior honors thesis at Stanford University on the significance of changes to Japan’s security policy posture reflected in the 2004 National Defense Program Guidelines: Phail-Liff, Adam. “A Return […]

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Thesis/Dissertation

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Recent Publications

  • New journal article: Asian Survey: “Japan in 2020: COVID-19 and the End of the Abe Era” March 1, 2021
  • New analysis: Wilson Center: “A “Taiwan Relations Act” for Japan?” February 27, 2021
  • New Book Chapter (2021): “Japan’s Defense Reforms Under Abe” (Cambridge UP) February 17, 2021
  • Brookings Institution Press: “Proactive Stabilizer: Japan’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Security Order” February 3, 2020
  • Brookings Institution Press: “Japan and the Liberal International Order: A Survey Experiment” January 30, 2020
  • Brookings: “China, Japan, and the East China Sea: Beijing’s “gray zone” coercion and Tokyo’s response” December 2, 2019
  • Brookings Foreign Policy Interview: “The Stress Test: Japan in an Era of Great Power Competition” October 21, 2019
  • IRAP: “Unambivalent alignment: Japan’s China strategy, the US alliance, and the ‘hedging’ fallacy” September 6, 2019
  • Naval Institute Press: “China’s Maritime Gray-Zone Operations in the East China Sea and Japan’s Response” March 1, 2019
  • JJPS: “Japan’s LDP-Komeito Government in a Mixed Electoral System” February 28, 2019

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I am an associate professor in Indiana University's Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. I research and teach on East Asian international relations, politics, and diplomacy—with a particular focus on Japan, China, the United States, and Asia-Pacific security. My other professional affiliations include Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Associate-in-Research at Harvard University's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

E-mail: "aliff" at indiana.edu

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