Ciara Wirth
Biographic Data
| ID | 176296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ciara Wirth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ciara |
| FAMILY NAME | Wirth |
| SIGNATURE | WIRTH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8150-9276 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Solidifying sovereign power in liquid space: The making and breaking of 'island chains' and 'walls' at sea
As new visions of international order emerged among major actors of the Indian and Pacific Ocean regions, calls for freedom and openness intensified. Yet, in maritime space, the strategies for implementing these competing visions produced contradictory outcomes. The increasing sense of urgency—especially among Chinese, Japanese, and US leaders—to strengthen their defences against dangers from the other has led to the creation of militarized ‘wall…
Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination
This volume addresses a glaring gap in scholarship on the international relations of Japan and East Asia. At a time when Japanese elites re-imagine their country as an ‘island nation’ (shimaguni) or ‘ocean state’ (kaiyō kokka) and successfully promote geopolitical constructs for anchoring Japan in the ‘Indo-Pacific’ region, a critical examination of spatial politics is in order. The continuing debate about non-Western International Relations (IR)…
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism
Thirty years after the downfall of the Soviet-led communist bloc, the United States-led liberal international order is seen as coming to an end. Policymakers have converged on the need to safeguard the "rules-based order" across the newly coined "Indo-Pacific" region. However, policy and scholarly debates lack clarity about what exactly is to be preserved, and why the terms of the "rules-based order" and the "Indo-Pacific" have rapidly found thei…
Securing the Seas, Securing the State: The Inside/Outside of 'Indo-Pacific' Geopolitics
This essay suggests that the renewed politicization and militarization of the maritime sphere is a product of the increasing need to re-legitimise the current state-based political order. Order can be understood as particular configurations of boundaries as they define political communities through various practices of inclusion and exclusion: East Asian seas have become one of the final frontiers for sustaining national developmental projects, t…
China’s Rise and Australia-Japan-US Relations: Primacy and Leadership in East Asia
In China’s Rise and Australia-Japan-US Relations: Primacy and Leadership in East Asia, Michael Haezle and Andrew O’Neil pursue the objective of providing policy-related observations and recommendations on the nature of the US-led liberal regional order and the shared interest of Australia and Japan in maintaining it. The eleven chapters, written by experts in security politics from Australia, Japan, and the United States, aim to achieve this obje…
Emotions, international hierarchy, and the problem of solipsism in Sino-US South China Sea politics
This study offers an explanation for Beijing's seemingly self-defeating approach to the South China Sea that distances China ever more from the regional and international communities which it wants to lead and join while drawing in the foreign military presence that it seeks to keep at a distance. Combining recent research on the role of emotions and on hierarchy in international politics, this article shows how the powerful narrative of national…
Whose ‘Freedom of Navigation’? Australia, China, the United States and the making of order in the ‘Indo-Pacific’
The so-called freedom of navigation through the Malacca straits and the South China Sea, some of the world's busiest trade routes, has long been of concern to scholars and practitioners of international politics in the region. Increasing tensions around territorial disputes recently propelled the issue to the forefront of global foreign and security policy making. Yet, despite the frequent invocation of threats to the 'freedom of navigation' for …
Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan and Maritime Order in the East China Sea
It is no exaggeration to say that maritime security concerns have become the most important drivers of foreign and security politics across East Asia and the Pacific. With Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan and Maritime Order in the East China Sea, James Manicom addresses a central aspect of these heightening tensions surrounding maritime space: the contention between Japan and China over waters of the East China Sea. Given the developments o…
Securing the seas, securing the state: Hope, danger and the politics of order in the Asia-Pacific
Power’ and ‘stability’ in the China–Japan–South Korea regional security complex
Despite continuing economic liberalization and social integration, relations between Northeast Asian governments are often tense and lead to enhanced military readiness. Alongside confrontation in all three dyads, however, trilateral cooperation between China, Japan and South Korea has been evolving. This study shows that history problems, territorial disputes and geopolitical concerns lock the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean governments into …
Securing Japan in the 'West: The US-Japan Alliance and Identity Politics in the Asian Century
Why has the military dimension of the US-Japan relationship remained the central point of reference for Japanese foreign relations, despite the demise of the Soviet Union? Why has Japan, deepening economic interdependence notwithstanding, remained politically distant from East Asia? Based on analysis of statements by Japanese and US political elites and academics regarding the US-Japan alliance, this article argues that the rise of China, cotermi…
Ocean governance, maritime security and the consequences of modernity in Northeast Asia
High economic growth rates, the revolution in telecommunications and the end of the Cold War have brought about rapid and profound changes to the domestic as well as regional environments of Northeast Asian governments. The maritime sphere, where increasingly militarized state boundaries delineate political authority and economic activities link increasingly interdependent communities therein, bears high significance for the study of regional coo…
Conservation Perceptions, Common Property, and Cultural Polarization among the Waorani of Ecuador's Amazon
We examine changes in perceptions of resource scarcity, levels of social cohesion, and involvement in biodiversity conservation among Waorani Indians of northeastern Ecuador. Almost a decade ago, the first author published a paper about the common property regime of the Waorani, a system designed for a situation of plentiful resources, low population density, clear membership, and social pressure. That paper described the prevalent challenges tha…
China, Japan, and East Asian regional cooperation: The views of 'self' and 'other' from Beijing and Tokyo
China–Japan relations are frequently analyzed either in the light of disputes about different interpretations of history, the consequence of a strategic power shift in the Asia-Pacific resulting from the rise of China or as a conflict between Chinese and Japanese national identities. This paper argues that bilateral relations should be assessed on the basis of a comprehensive approach. It concludes that the current state of bilateral relations ca…
Whose ‘Freedom of Navigation’? Australia, China, the United States and the making of order in the ‘Indo-Pacific’
The so-called freedom of navigation through the Malacca straits and the South China Sea, some of the world's busiest trade routes, has long been of concern to scholars and practitioners of international politics in the region. Increasing tensions around territorial disputes recently propelled the issue to the forefront of global foreign and security policy making. Yet, despite the frequent invocation of threats to the 'freedom of navigation' for …
Solidifying sovereign power in liquid space: The making and breaking of 'island chains' and 'walls' at sea
As new visions of international order emerged among major actors of the Indian and Pacific Ocean regions, calls for freedom and openness intensified. Yet, in maritime space, the strategies for implementing these competing visions produced contradictory outcomes. The increasing sense of urgency—especially among Chinese, Japanese, and US leaders—to strengthen their defences against dangers from the other has led to the creation of militarized ‘wall…
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism
Thirty years after the downfall of the Soviet-led communist bloc, the United States-led liberal international order is seen as coming to an end. Policymakers have converged on the need to safeguard the "rules-based order" across the newly coined "Indo-Pacific" region. However, policy and scholarly debates lack clarity about what exactly is to be preserved, and why the terms of the "rules-based order" and the "Indo-Pacific" have rapidly found thei…
Ocean governance, maritime security and the consequences of modernity in Northeast Asia
High economic growth rates, the revolution in telecommunications and the end of the Cold War have brought about rapid and profound changes to the domestic as well as regional environments of Northeast Asian governments. The maritime sphere, where increasingly militarized state boundaries delineate political authority and economic activities link increasingly interdependent communities therein, bears high significance for the study of regional coo…
Securing the seas, securing the state: Hope, danger and the politics of order in the Asia-Pacific
Emotions, international hierarchy, and the problem of solipsism in Sino-US South China Sea politics
This study offers an explanation for Beijing's seemingly self-defeating approach to the South China Sea that distances China ever more from the regional and international communities which it wants to lead and join while drawing in the foreign military presence that it seeks to keep at a distance. Combining recent research on the role of emotions and on hierarchy in international politics, this article shows how the powerful narrative of national…
Power’ and ‘stability’ in the China–Japan–South Korea regional security complex
Despite continuing economic liberalization and social integration, relations between Northeast Asian governments are often tense and lead to enhanced military readiness. Alongside confrontation in all three dyads, however, trilateral cooperation between China, Japan and South Korea has been evolving. This study shows that history problems, territorial disputes and geopolitical concerns lock the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean governments into …
China, Japan, and East Asian regional cooperation: The views of 'self' and 'other' from Beijing and Tokyo
China–Japan relations are frequently analyzed either in the light of disputes about different interpretations of history, the consequence of a strategic power shift in the Asia-Pacific resulting from the rise of China or as a conflict between Chinese and Japanese national identities. This paper argues that bilateral relations should be assessed on the basis of a comprehensive approach. It concludes that the current state of bilateral relations ca…
Securing Japan in the 'West: The US-Japan Alliance and Identity Politics in the Asian Century
Why has the military dimension of the US-Japan relationship remained the central point of reference for Japanese foreign relations, despite the demise of the Soviet Union? Why has Japan, deepening economic interdependence notwithstanding, remained politically distant from East Asia? Based on analysis of statements by Japanese and US political elites and academics regarding the US-Japan alliance, this article argues that the rise of China, cotermi…
China, Japan, and East Asian regional cooperation: The views of 'self' and 'other' from Beijing and Tokyo
China–Japan relations are frequently analyzed either in the light of disputes about different interpretations of history, the consequence of a strategic power shift in the Asia-Pacific resulting from the rise of China or as a conflict between Chinese and Japanese national identities. This paper argues that bilateral relations should be assessed on the basis of a comprehensive approach. It concludes that the current state of bilateral relations ca…
Conservation Perceptions, Common Property, and Cultural Polarization among the Waorani of Ecuador's Amazon
We examine changes in perceptions of resource scarcity, levels of social cohesion, and involvement in biodiversity conservation among Waorani Indians of northeastern Ecuador. Almost a decade ago, the first author published a paper about the common property regime of the Waorani, a system designed for a situation of plentiful resources, low population density, clear membership, and social pressure. That paper described the prevalent challenges tha…
Ocean governance, maritime security and the consequences of modernity in Northeast Asia
High economic growth rates, the revolution in telecommunications and the end of the Cold War have brought about rapid and profound changes to the domestic as well as regional environments of Northeast Asian governments. The maritime sphere, where increasingly militarized state boundaries delineate political authority and economic activities link increasingly interdependent communities therein, bears high significance for the study of regional coo…
Power’ and ‘stability’ in the China–Japan–South Korea regional security complex
Despite continuing economic liberalization and social integration, relations between Northeast Asian governments are often tense and lead to enhanced military readiness. Alongside confrontation in all three dyads, however, trilateral cooperation between China, Japan and South Korea has been evolving. This study shows that history problems, territorial disputes and geopolitical concerns lock the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean governments into …
Securing Japan in the 'West: The US-Japan Alliance and Identity Politics in the Asian Century
Why has the military dimension of the US-Japan relationship remained the central point of reference for Japanese foreign relations, despite the demise of the Soviet Union? Why has Japan, deepening economic interdependence notwithstanding, remained politically distant from East Asia? Based on analysis of statements by Japanese and US political elites and academics regarding the US-Japan alliance, this article argues that the rise of China, cotermi…
Securing the seas, securing the state: Hope, danger and the politics of order in the Asia-Pacific
Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan and Maritime Order in the East China Sea
It is no exaggeration to say that maritime security concerns have become the most important drivers of foreign and security politics across East Asia and the Pacific. With Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan and Maritime Order in the East China Sea, James Manicom addresses a central aspect of these heightening tensions surrounding maritime space: the contention between Japan and China over waters of the East China Sea. Given the developments o…
Whose ‘Freedom of Navigation’? Australia, China, the United States and the making of order in the ‘Indo-Pacific’
The so-called freedom of navigation through the Malacca straits and the South China Sea, some of the world's busiest trade routes, has long been of concern to scholars and practitioners of international politics in the region. Increasing tensions around territorial disputes recently propelled the issue to the forefront of global foreign and security policy making. Yet, despite the frequent invocation of threats to the 'freedom of navigation' for …
China’s Rise and Australia-Japan-US Relations: Primacy and Leadership in East Asia
In China’s Rise and Australia-Japan-US Relations: Primacy and Leadership in East Asia, Michael Haezle and Andrew O’Neil pursue the objective of providing policy-related observations and recommendations on the nature of the US-led liberal regional order and the shared interest of Australia and Japan in maintaining it. The eleven chapters, written by experts in security politics from Australia, Japan, and the United States, aim to achieve this obje…
Emotions, international hierarchy, and the problem of solipsism in Sino-US South China Sea politics
This study offers an explanation for Beijing's seemingly self-defeating approach to the South China Sea that distances China ever more from the regional and international communities which it wants to lead and join while drawing in the foreign military presence that it seeks to keep at a distance. Combining recent research on the role of emotions and on hierarchy in international politics, this article shows how the powerful narrative of national…
Securing the Seas, Securing the State: The Inside/Outside of 'Indo-Pacific' Geopolitics
This essay suggests that the renewed politicization and militarization of the maritime sphere is a product of the increasing need to re-legitimise the current state-based political order. Order can be understood as particular configurations of boundaries as they define political communities through various practices of inclusion and exclusion: East Asian seas have become one of the final frontiers for sustaining national developmental projects, t…
Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination
This volume addresses a glaring gap in scholarship on the international relations of Japan and East Asia. At a time when Japanese elites re-imagine their country as an ‘island nation’ (shimaguni) or ‘ocean state’ (kaiyō kokka) and successfully promote geopolitical constructs for anchoring Japan in the ‘Indo-Pacific’ region, a critical examination of spatial politics is in order. The continuing debate about non-Western International Relations (IR)…
Filling the void: The Asia-Pacific problem of order and emerging Indo-Pacific regional multilateralism
Thirty years after the downfall of the Soviet-led communist bloc, the United States-led liberal international order is seen as coming to an end. Policymakers have converged on the need to safeguard the "rules-based order" across the newly coined "Indo-Pacific" region. However, policy and scholarly debates lack clarity about what exactly is to be preserved, and why the terms of the "rules-based order" and the "Indo-Pacific" have rapidly found thei…
Solidifying sovereign power in liquid space: The making and breaking of 'island chains' and 'walls' at sea
As new visions of international order emerged among major actors of the Indian and Pacific Ocean regions, calls for freedom and openness intensified. Yet, in maritime space, the strategies for implementing these competing visions produced contradictory outcomes. The increasing sense of urgency—especially among Chinese, Japanese, and US leaders—to strengthen their defences against dangers from the other has led to the creation of militarized ‘wall…
Law (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Political economy (10 works) · China (9 works) · Economy (9 works) · International relations (7 works) · International Maritime Law Issues (6 works)