Yee‐kuang Heng
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4421963 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Yee‐kuang Heng |
| NOMBRES | Yee‐kuang |
| APELLIDO | Heng |
| FIRMA | HENG Y K |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Tokyo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1413-2429 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Strategic Minilateralism and the Regional Security Architecture of the Indo‐Pacific
Connecting the Atlantic-Pacific
Building futures literacy
Threat perception in international relations has received much academic attention and continues to do so. Other contributions to this special section on how leaders feel security dangers or perceive threats with radical uncertainty are closely intertwined with this article’s focus on threats that are vague and not immediately perceptible. Humans possess a capacity for thinking about and imagining the future known as prospection. Faced with threat…
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises
Joint naval exercises (JNEs), an increasingly prominent sub-set of joint military exercises (JMEs) between states, vary across a range of dimensions. Yet insufficient attention has been given to comprehending their underlying purpose and the perceived advantages that states, along with their representatives, believe they gain from organizing or taking part in such exercises. This article delves into the objectives and perceived advantages of Japa…
Asian Military Evolutions
Evaluating Japan’s defense cooperation agreements and their transformative potential
Japan’s defense cooperation agreements (DCAs) have been proliferating in recent years. Despite Japan’s harsh security environment, rather than expanding formal military alliances beyond its sole US ally, DCAs have emerged as a crucial instrument deployed by Japan to strengthen bilateral and minilateral defense relations with various partners. How do we make sense of Japan’s growing activism in forging DCAs? Yet, there does not currently exist a f…
Japan in the Gulf
Whereas Japan’s hedging vis-à-vis China in the Indo-Pacific has predominantly been the focus of academic analysis, hedging also explains Tokyo’s policy choices in the Gulf to a significant degree. Yet, existing literature has largely overlooked Japan’s hedging behaviour in the Gulf, which had to navigate the uncertainties generated by two competing powers, the United States and Iran. As hedging theory is above all concerned with risk, Japan’s pol…
UK-Japan military exercises and mutual strategic reassurance
The United Kingdom (UK) and Japan have conducted unprecedented military exercises as each other’s closest security partners in Asia and Europe, respectively. Despite publicly avowed closeness, these military exercises were not predicated on formal alliance commitments or deterrence of common adversaries underpinned by shared threat perceptions. Addressing this puzzle, a hitherto-overlooked perspective of mutual strategic reassurance for trusted p…
Enhancing Europe’s Global Power in Asia 2030
As Asia undergoes tectonic power shifts, many states in the region are looking for reassurance and like‐minded partners to help uphold and defend shared common interests. An enhanced European presence could prove welcome, if European power is projected and communicated in the right ways
The Sustainability Turn in UAE–Japan Relations
Relations between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Japan since the 1970s have revolved around oil diplomacy. As the UAE diversifies its economy and embraces sustainability, this paper explores how the bilateral relationship has undergone a sustainability turn. It does so by assessing the logic of sustainability and the mutual interests for both parties. It is argued that the sustainability turn reflects what the UAE needs in terms of renewable …
The continuing resonance of the war as risk management perspective for understanding military interventions
In the late 1990s and 2000s, a slew of books and journal articles proposed that a nexus between risk management and warfare was emerging. This article argues that risk management ideas continue to shape recent campaigns against Libya, Islamic State, Syria, and the war on terror from Niger, Yemen to Somalia. It uses existing literature on risk and warfare to examine four key aspects of contemporary interventions. First, the article evaluates the o…
Three Faces of Japan's Soft Power
After two lost decades of economic stagnation and faced with rising neighbors such as South Korea and China, soft power has been touted by politicians and academics alike as a means for Japan to maintain its global profile and influence. "Soft power" is a concept coined by Harvard professor Joseph Nye to maintain American preponderance in the post-Cold War era, but what does it mean in the Japanese context? This paper suggests that there are thre…
Turning on the taps
In our globalised and urbanised world, environmental sustainability looms large. Water in particular is a valuable global and cosmopolitan resource that all megacities need. However, rather than cooperating to address these shared challenges, urban scholarship on branding thus far has focused on intercity competition to attract capital flows. This paper argues that an overlooked collaborative dimension of city branding in providing water solution…
Japan and China as Charm Rivals
In this thoughtful and insightful book, Sun notes that his journey began somewhat inadvertently, intrigued as he was by discussions in China about appropriateness of the dragon as a symbol of the country. The subsequent analysis however is systematic, theoretically sophisticated, and meticulous; this is a product born from long gestation periods of reflection and discussions. Jing Sun has done an intellectual favor for scholars working on the muc…
Managing risk, the state and political economy in historical perspective
Can Small States Be More than Price Takers in Global Governance
Existing debates suggest that small states can exert more influence than their size alone implies. This article contributes to such extant literature by addressing more specific questions about the conditions under which such ostensible price takers can play outsized roles. Generic claims of tiny Singapore punching above its weight have not yet been examined in light of its leaders' proactive initiatives in global governance to advance its nation…
Smart Power and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces
From Iraq to the Gulf of Aden and the South Pacific, this paper evaluates how far theoretical ideas about smart power manifest in operational missions of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF). To function within a ‘smart’ power context, this paper suggests that JSDF operates in ‘assisting’ mode, rather than the ‘threatening’ behavior of ‘hard’ power. JSDF also deployed alongside other Japanese ‘soft’ power tools – diplomatic, cultural, development…
Asia-Pacific Nations in International Peace Support and Stability Missions
This book aims to provide for a path-breaking cross-regional comparison of the capabilities and readiness of Asia-Pacific countries to contribute to peace support missions, with an eye to identifying
Beyond ‘kawaii’ pop culture
Many studies of Japan’s soft power are premised on the ‘affective’ dimensions of its kawaii pop culture that generate liking or interest. While entirely warranted, emphasising cultural attraction does not do sufficient justice to the multi-faceted foundations of Japanese soft power. Neither does it recognise other components of Joseph Nye’s soft power framework stressing the ‘normative’ appeal of policies that reflect global norms. This article i…
A Global City in an Age of Global Risks
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
What did New Labour Ever Do for Us?’ Evaluating Tony Blair's Imprint on British Strategic Culture
As interest in Tony Blair's legacy persists, this article investigates his impact on UK strategic culture. The first section revisits theoretical questions about the processes whereby elites can alter collectively held strategic beliefs in the face of changing security environments. The second section then shows how Blair articulated new strategic beliefs that differed from pre-existing ones. These include embracing a broader understanding of sec…
After the 'War on Terror
In March 2009, the Obama administration sent a message to senior Pentagon staff instructing them to refrain from using either of the terms 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' and to replace these terms with 'Overseas Contingency Operations'. The change in tone and, potentially, substance, from the Obama White House by ending the 'war on terror' at the rhetorical level suggests a need to shift our academic attention towards developing more approp…
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the softest of them all? Evaluating Japanese and Chinese strategies in the 'soft' power competition era
As states jostle to attract and entice others by deploying a range of innovative strategies, a ‘soft’ power competition era looms possibly in the Asia-Pacific. This paper argues that reflecting on this period of competitive policy innovation provides a valuable opportunity to re-assess the theory and practice of Joseph Nye's ‘soft’ power, given its conceptual and empirical frailties: how theoretically precise are the policies commonly described a…
Ghosts in the machine
The other War on Terror revealed
Despite initial fanfare surrounding its launch in the White House Rose Garden, the War on Terrorist Finances (WOTF) has thus far languished as a sideshow, in the shadows of military campaigns against terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq. This neglect is unfortunate, for the WOTF reflects the other multilateral cooperative dimension of the US-led ‘war on terror’, quite contrary to conventional sweeping accusations of American unilateralism. Yet the e…
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the softest of them all? Evaluating Japanese and Chinese strategies in the 'soft' power competition era
As states jostle to attract and entice others by deploying a range of innovative strategies, a ‘soft’ power competition era looms possibly in the Asia-Pacific. This paper argues that reflecting on this period of competitive policy innovation provides a valuable opportunity to re-assess the theory and practice of Joseph Nye's ‘soft’ power, given its conceptual and empirical frailties: how theoretically precise are the policies commonly described a…
Beyond ‘kawaii’ pop culture
Many studies of Japan’s soft power are premised on the ‘affective’ dimensions of its kawaii pop culture that generate liking or interest. While entirely warranted, emphasising cultural attraction does not do sufficient justice to the multi-faceted foundations of Japanese soft power. Neither does it recognise other components of Joseph Nye’s soft power framework stressing the ‘normative’ appeal of policies that reflect global norms. This article i…
The other War on Terror revealed
Despite initial fanfare surrounding its launch in the White House Rose Garden, the War on Terrorist Finances (WOTF) has thus far languished as a sideshow, in the shadows of military campaigns against terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq. This neglect is unfortunate, for the WOTF reflects the other multilateral cooperative dimension of the US-led ‘war on terror’, quite contrary to conventional sweeping accusations of American unilateralism. Yet the e…
The 'Transformation of War' Debate
This article adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the ongoing 'transformation of war' debate in an age of globalisation. It suggests that careful scrutiny of recent Anglo-American campaigns, from Kosovo to Iraq, reveals a shared underlying concern: the management of globalised systemic risks. This implies an interesting continuity where one might expect discontinuity, given the different US administrations and strategic contexts involved. Poli…
Connecting the Atlantic-Pacific
Unravelling the 'War' on Terrorism
Since the 11 September terrorist outrages, policymakers have waxed lyrical about a 'war' on terrorism as the greatest challenge to international security. The word 'war' implies easily identifiable (normally state) adversaries, and dramatic military action producing decisive, highly visible results at the end. However, this 'war' is in fact more rhetorical than about interstate warfare. Like other rhetorical wars on drugs or crime, it has no visi…
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises
Joint naval exercises (JNEs), an increasingly prominent sub-set of joint military exercises (JMEs) between states, vary across a range of dimensions. Yet insufficient attention has been given to comprehending their underlying purpose and the perceived advantages that states, along with their representatives, believe they gain from organizing or taking part in such exercises. This article delves into the objectives and perceived advantages of Japa…
Can Small States Be More than Price Takers in Global Governance
Existing debates suggest that small states can exert more influence than their size alone implies. This article contributes to such extant literature by addressing more specific questions about the conditions under which such ostensible price takers can play outsized roles. Generic claims of tiny Singapore punching above its weight have not yet been examined in light of its leaders' proactive initiatives in global governance to advance its nation…
Ghosts in the machine
Turning on the taps
In our globalised and urbanised world, environmental sustainability looms large. Water in particular is a valuable global and cosmopolitan resource that all megacities need. However, rather than cooperating to address these shared challenges, urban scholarship on branding thus far has focused on intercity competition to attract capital flows. This paper argues that an overlooked collaborative dimension of city branding in providing water solution…
A Global City in an Age of Global Risks
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
What did New Labour Ever Do for Us?’ Evaluating Tony Blair's Imprint on British Strategic Culture
As interest in Tony Blair's legacy persists, this article investigates his impact on UK strategic culture. The first section revisits theoretical questions about the processes whereby elites can alter collectively held strategic beliefs in the face of changing security environments. The second section then shows how Blair articulated new strategic beliefs that differed from pre-existing ones. These include embracing a broader understanding of sec…
After the 'War on Terror
In March 2009, the Obama administration sent a message to senior Pentagon staff instructing them to refrain from using either of the terms 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' and to replace these terms with 'Overseas Contingency Operations'. The change in tone and, potentially, substance, from the Obama White House by ending the 'war on terror' at the rhetorical level suggests a need to shift our academic attention towards developing more approp…
Evaluating Japan’s defense cooperation agreements and their transformative potential
Japan’s defense cooperation agreements (DCAs) have been proliferating in recent years. Despite Japan’s harsh security environment, rather than expanding formal military alliances beyond its sole US ally, DCAs have emerged as a crucial instrument deployed by Japan to strengthen bilateral and minilateral defense relations with various partners. How do we make sense of Japan’s growing activism in forging DCAs? Yet, there does not currently exist a f…
UK-Japan military exercises and mutual strategic reassurance
The United Kingdom (UK) and Japan have conducted unprecedented military exercises as each other’s closest security partners in Asia and Europe, respectively. Despite publicly avowed closeness, these military exercises were not predicated on formal alliance commitments or deterrence of common adversaries underpinned by shared threat perceptions. Addressing this puzzle, a hitherto-overlooked perspective of mutual strategic reassurance for trusted p…
The continuing resonance of the war as risk management perspective for understanding military interventions
In the late 1990s and 2000s, a slew of books and journal articles proposed that a nexus between risk management and warfare was emerging. This article argues that risk management ideas continue to shape recent campaigns against Libya, Islamic State, Syria, and the war on terror from Niger, Yemen to Somalia. It uses existing literature on risk and warfare to examine four key aspects of contemporary interventions. First, the article evaluates the o…
Smart Power and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces
From Iraq to the Gulf of Aden and the South Pacific, this paper evaluates how far theoretical ideas about smart power manifest in operational missions of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF). To function within a ‘smart’ power context, this paper suggests that JSDF operates in ‘assisting’ mode, rather than the ‘threatening’ behavior of ‘hard’ power. JSDF also deployed alongside other Japanese ‘soft’ power tools – diplomatic, cultural, development…
Unravelling the 'War' on Terrorism
Since the 11 September terrorist outrages, policymakers have waxed lyrical about a 'war' on terrorism as the greatest challenge to international security. The word 'war' implies easily identifiable (normally state) adversaries, and dramatic military action producing decisive, highly visible results at the end. However, this 'war' is in fact more rhetorical than about interstate warfare. Like other rhetorical wars on drugs or crime, it has no visi…
War as Risk Management
This major new study shows how war can be thought of in terms of proactive risk management rather than in terms of conventional threat response. It addresses why the study of ‘risk management’ has helped fields such as sociology and criminology conceptualize new policy challenges but has made limited impact on Strategic Studies with new case studies of recent Anglo-American military campaigns in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. The author shows how …
The 'Transformation of War' Debate
This article adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the ongoing 'transformation of war' debate in an age of globalisation. It suggests that careful scrutiny of recent Anglo-American campaigns, from Kosovo to Iraq, reveals a shared underlying concern: the management of globalised systemic risks. This implies an interesting continuity where one might expect discontinuity, given the different US administrations and strategic contexts involved. Poli…
Old Wine in New Bottles? Reconfiguring Net Assessment for 21st Century Security Analysis
Net assessment as a framework for security analysis last triggered vigorous discussion in the closing stages of the Cold War. Nearly two decades later, this paper argues that net assessment deserves to be revitalized and looked at again, as governments seek analytical tools to understand the strategic environment in order to properly shape their foreign and security policies. Drawing from Cold War academic debates on net assessment, this paper fi…
The Return of Net Assessment
The other War on Terror revealed
Despite initial fanfare surrounding its launch in the White House Rose Garden, the War on Terrorist Finances (WOTF) has thus far languished as a sideshow, in the shadows of military campaigns against terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq. This neglect is unfortunate, for the WOTF reflects the other multilateral cooperative dimension of the US-led ‘war on terror’, quite contrary to conventional sweeping accusations of American unilateralism. Yet the e…
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the softest of them all? Evaluating Japanese and Chinese strategies in the 'soft' power competition era
As states jostle to attract and entice others by deploying a range of innovative strategies, a ‘soft’ power competition era looms possibly in the Asia-Pacific. This paper argues that reflecting on this period of competitive policy innovation provides a valuable opportunity to re-assess the theory and practice of Joseph Nye's ‘soft’ power, given its conceptual and empirical frailties: how theoretically precise are the policies commonly described a…
Ghosts in the machine
What did New Labour Ever Do for Us?’ Evaluating Tony Blair's Imprint on British Strategic Culture
As interest in Tony Blair's legacy persists, this article investigates his impact on UK strategic culture. The first section revisits theoretical questions about the processes whereby elites can alter collectively held strategic beliefs in the face of changing security environments. The second section then shows how Blair articulated new strategic beliefs that differed from pre-existing ones. These include embracing a broader understanding of sec…
After the 'War on Terror
In March 2009, the Obama administration sent a message to senior Pentagon staff instructing them to refrain from using either of the terms 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' and to replace these terms with 'Overseas Contingency Operations'. The change in tone and, potentially, substance, from the Obama White House by ending the 'war on terror' at the rhetorical level suggests a need to shift our academic attention towards developing more approp…
A Global City in an Age of Global Risks
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Asia-Pacific Nations in International Peace Support and Stability Missions
This book aims to provide for a path-breaking cross-regional comparison of the capabilities and readiness of Asia-Pacific countries to contribute to peace support missions, with an eye to identifying
Beyond ‘kawaii’ pop culture
Many studies of Japan’s soft power are premised on the ‘affective’ dimensions of its kawaii pop culture that generate liking or interest. While entirely warranted, emphasising cultural attraction does not do sufficient justice to the multi-faceted foundations of Japanese soft power. Neither does it recognise other components of Joseph Nye’s soft power framework stressing the ‘normative’ appeal of policies that reflect global norms. This article i…
Japan and China as Charm Rivals
In this thoughtful and insightful book, Sun notes that his journey began somewhat inadvertently, intrigued as he was by discussions in China about appropriateness of the dragon as a symbol of the country. The subsequent analysis however is systematic, theoretically sophisticated, and meticulous; this is a product born from long gestation periods of reflection and discussions. Jing Sun has done an intellectual favor for scholars working on the muc…
Managing risk, the state and political economy in historical perspective
Can Small States Be More than Price Takers in Global Governance
Existing debates suggest that small states can exert more influence than their size alone implies. This article contributes to such extant literature by addressing more specific questions about the conditions under which such ostensible price takers can play outsized roles. Generic claims of tiny Singapore punching above its weight have not yet been examined in light of its leaders' proactive initiatives in global governance to advance its nation…
Smart Power and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces
From Iraq to the Gulf of Aden and the South Pacific, this paper evaluates how far theoretical ideas about smart power manifest in operational missions of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF). To function within a ‘smart’ power context, this paper suggests that JSDF operates in ‘assisting’ mode, rather than the ‘threatening’ behavior of ‘hard’ power. JSDF also deployed alongside other Japanese ‘soft’ power tools – diplomatic, cultural, development…
Three Faces of Japan's Soft Power
After two lost decades of economic stagnation and faced with rising neighbors such as South Korea and China, soft power has been touted by politicians and academics alike as a means for Japan to maintain its global profile and influence. "Soft power" is a concept coined by Harvard professor Joseph Nye to maintain American preponderance in the post-Cold War era, but what does it mean in the Japanese context? This paper suggests that there are thre…
Turning on the taps
In our globalised and urbanised world, environmental sustainability looms large. Water in particular is a valuable global and cosmopolitan resource that all megacities need. However, rather than cooperating to address these shared challenges, urban scholarship on branding thus far has focused on intercity competition to attract capital flows. This paper argues that an overlooked collaborative dimension of city branding in providing water solution…
The continuing resonance of the war as risk management perspective for understanding military interventions
In the late 1990s and 2000s, a slew of books and journal articles proposed that a nexus between risk management and warfare was emerging. This article argues that risk management ideas continue to shape recent campaigns against Libya, Islamic State, Syria, and the war on terror from Niger, Yemen to Somalia. It uses existing literature on risk and warfare to examine four key aspects of contemporary interventions. First, the article evaluates the o…
Enhancing Europe’s Global Power in Asia 2030
As Asia undergoes tectonic power shifts, many states in the region are looking for reassurance and like‐minded partners to help uphold and defend shared common interests. An enhanced European presence could prove welcome, if European power is projected and communicated in the right ways
The Sustainability Turn in UAE–Japan Relations
Relations between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Japan since the 1970s have revolved around oil diplomacy. As the UAE diversifies its economy and embraces sustainability, this paper explores how the bilateral relationship has undergone a sustainability turn. It does so by assessing the logic of sustainability and the mutual interests for both parties. It is argued that the sustainability turn reflects what the UAE needs in terms of renewable …
UK-Japan military exercises and mutual strategic reassurance
The United Kingdom (UK) and Japan have conducted unprecedented military exercises as each other’s closest security partners in Asia and Europe, respectively. Despite publicly avowed closeness, these military exercises were not predicated on formal alliance commitments or deterrence of common adversaries underpinned by shared threat perceptions. Addressing this puzzle, a hitherto-overlooked perspective of mutual strategic reassurance for trusted p…
Japan in the Gulf
Whereas Japan’s hedging vis-à-vis China in the Indo-Pacific has predominantly been the focus of academic analysis, hedging also explains Tokyo’s policy choices in the Gulf to a significant degree. Yet, existing literature has largely overlooked Japan’s hedging behaviour in the Gulf, which had to navigate the uncertainties generated by two competing powers, the United States and Iran. As hedging theory is above all concerned with risk, Japan’s pol…
Asian Military Evolutions
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