East Asia has become a central arena in which strategic rivalry, economic interdependence, technological competition, and contested regional orders converge. This panel examines the changing geopolitical and geoeconomic relationships among China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, with particular attention to the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea, the Korean Peninsula, supply-chain security, semiconductor production, trade dependencies, and alliance politics.
The panel welcomes theoretical, comparative, and empirical contributions that assess how these actors manage both competition and interdependence. It seeks papers on deterrence, crisis management, defense cooperation, economic security, export controls, critical technologies, public opinion, historical memory, and the role of middle powers in shaping East Asian order. Contributions may also explore how regional actors respond to the broader U.S.-China rivalry without reducing their foreign policies to a binary choice.
