Joel Campbell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3775942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Campbell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Campbell |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPBELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Troy University, Global Campus, Japan–Korea |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fearing the worst
Most observers do not consider the Korean War the most important episode of the Cold War. While key to the development of the conflict in east Asia, the war was too remote, too much of a stalemate and too much like the Second World War to have determined the course of the East–West struggle. That three-year conflict has been called ‘the Forgotten War’ because it never rated as highly in American or western memory as either the titanic Second Worl…
History, memory, and politics in postwar Japan
Special duty
When we think of countries blessed with great intelligence operations, Japan is not first to come to mind. The Japanese military was largely undone by effective American and British codebreaking and other intelligence during the Second World War, and then dismantled its own intelligence operations after the war. As the third-largest economy and purveyor of soft power throughout the world, however, Japan has more intelligence capabilities than usu…
The Shenzhen experiment
The Shenzhen experiment: the story of China's instant city The Shenzhen experiment: the story of China's instant city. By Juan Du. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2020. 376pp. Index. Isbn978 0 67497 528 6. £27.00. Available as e-book. Joel Campbell Joel Campbell Troy University, Global Campus, Japan–Korea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 97, Issue 2, March 2021, Pages 589–…
Asean resistance to sovereignty violation
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been one of the most successful organizations dedicated to regional integration. While not attempting the thick form of institutionalization seen in the European Union, it has established norms of peaceful resolution of conflicts, non-interference in domestic politics and protection of member states’ sovereignty. Scholarship has rarely examined exactly how the organization promotes members’ s…
Dying for rights
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) may have the worst human right record in the world. Imagine a country where you can be sentenced to a long prison term for singing a foreign song, possessing a bible, or complaining about a dire state-induced famine—and this only skims the surface. Perhaps due to preoccupation with the nuclear issue and the inability to get good data, there are few comprehensive works on rights in this benighted co…
Making China modern
First-rate general histories of modern China come along only once a decade or so. Klaus Mühlhahn of the Free University of Berlin has penned one of the best ones of this decade. Chinese history is a huge topic, with everything cast in superlatives, and the last two centuries are a well-trod story. Authors can easily get lost in the minutiae of emperors and revolutionaries, civil wars, invasions and warlords. Mühlhahn instead concentrates on China…
The Senkaku paradox
The Senkaku paradox: risking Great Power war over small stakes The Senkaku paradox: risking Great Power war over small stakes. By Michael E O'Hanlon. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press. 2019. 258pp. Index. Pb.: £16.30. Isbn978 0 81573 689 9. Available as e-book. Joel Campbell Joel Campbell Troy University, Global Campus, Japan–Korea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, …
Rationality in the North Korean regime
When I tell people that I research east Asian politics, the topic of North Korea, and more specifically whether Kim Jong-un is crazy, often pops ups. Certainly, North Korea's political system is unusual in Asia, let alone the world. But are the leaders in Pyongyang off their rockers, or are they in fact rational decision-makers? David Shin, at the National Intelligence University in Maryland, suggests that the Kim dynasty leaders—Kim Il-sung, Kim…
Terrorism and counter-terrorism in China
To a casual reader, China does not immediately come to mind when the subject of terrorism is raised. We associate terrorism with ultra-violence in the Middle East, random bombings and shootings in western Europe and shadowy ragtag groups in south-east Asia. Even so, China has much experience of dealing with terrorist incidents, principally relating to pro-independence groups in its north-western Xinjiang province, and the country has played a maj…
The advocacy trap
Take any introductory International Relations course, and swiftly you will learn about the advent of non-state actors in the post-Cold War world. Among the most important are the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that pursue political or social causes in the public arena. Along with these, transnational advocacy networks (TANs) bring together various NGOs and other interested parties to put pressure on governments to change policy. In dealing…
Contested memories in Chinese and Japanese foreign policy
There are no two countries that are more tied up in knots about their bilateral history than China and Japan. The two fought a vicious death struggle in the 1930s and 1940s, involving Japanese offensive operations throughout the eastern third of China and accompanied by numerous atrocities. The worst single atrocity, from the Chinese perspective, was the Rape of Nanjing during the winter of 1937–8 when as many as 300,000 people may have been kill…
North Korean proliferation in the Middle East and Africa
One of the chief problems for ordinary people in understanding a regime like North Korea (DPRK) is that we lack full information about what the country is actually doing, either at home or abroad. The DPRK's activities appear so outrageous that we can believe almost anything about them. The truth may be far more prosaic. That is certainly the case for Pyongyang's arms sales to developing countries. North Korea observer Bruce Bechtol's analysis pr…
Japan, South Korea, and the United States nuclear umbrella
The phrase ‘nuclear umbrella’ has always been an odd security formulation. Unlike a real umbrella, it does not really shield anyone from anything, most definitely not from nuclear war. And, unlike many security guarantees, it does not really guarantee that nuclear weapons would be used in the defence of an ally of a nuclear power. It does, nonetheless, serve various political and strategic ends and, due to these, it continues in contemporary use.…
Japan steps up its game
Japan's security posture is unique: it is at once a pacifist nation, controls one of the world's largest militaries, is heavily reliant on its alliance with the United States and remains in nearly continuous political conflict with its nearest neighbours over historical issues. The authors surveyed in this book review essay suggest that Japan's security policy-making has undergone a significant transformation that will reverberate for decades. An…
Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun
The old expression that familiarity breeds contempt never applied to two countries better than China and Japan. The neighbouring states have interacted with each other for nearly 2,000 years, and Japan has been greatly enriched by infusions of Chinese culture (think written Chinese characters, Buddhism and ceramics, to name only three), yet official relations have been contentious for centuries. The two countries have gone to war at least three t…
Postwar Japan
Powerplay
It is a curious fact that, in the early postwar era, America opted for different sorts of politico-military alliances in Europe and Asia: a Europe-wide multilateral grouping in the form of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) versus a bilateral hub-and-spokes system in east Asia. In an excellent overview of early Cold War history, former Bush National Security staffer Victor Cha explains how the US developed the one-on-one system for Asi…
Poised for partnership
India and Japan may not seem like the most obvious political and economic partners. Separated by most of the Asian continent and possessing very different cultures and history, the two were on opposite sides in the Second World War and the Cold War, and followed diverging economic models. The contributors to this volume seek to show that theirs is now a budding relationship that has much promise not only for Tokyo and New Delhi, but for all of As…
Rising China's influence in developing Asia
One of the most discussed aspects of China's rise as a major power is the actual effect it may be having in east Asia and beyond. This volume, edited by Evelyn Goh, assesses the degree of Chinese influence on the developing countries of east, south-east and south Asia, through individual country case-studies and by examining issue areas. Goh suggests that there is considerable ‘slippage’ in China's ability to get foreign countries to do what it w…
China looks at the West
China looks at the West: identity, global ambitions, and the future of Sino-American relations. By Christopher A.Ford. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky. 2015. 638pp. Index. £55.00. isbn 678 0 81316 540 0. Available as e-book. The western world, for hundreds of years, has generated images of China that have seized or repelled the popular imagination. The Middle Kingdom has been either an exotic ‘other’, full of promise and excitement, …
The China-Japan border dispute
This book is dedicated to ‘peace and prosperity in East Asia’, but if there is anything that could derail the order and stability of that region, it is the slow-burning Sino-Japanese conflict in the East China Sea (p. v). Territorial disputes over tiny uninhabited islands such as the Senkaku/Diaoyu chain seem to outsiders quite mad, but often are among the most intractable in international relations. As such disputes go, this one is white hot. Ti…
The European Union and Japan
We do not often think of the Japanese—European relationship as being among the most important in international relations. The editors of this volume intend to show that Japan and the European Union constitute a ‘vital axis for future global governance and ... an essential pillar in the emerging fluid global order’ (p. 2). Based on a number of symposiums and other meetings sponsored by Waseda and Oxford universities, the articles demonstrate how J…
Blood, dreams and gold
Myanmar (Burma) is an unknown country. Virtually isolated from most of the world for two generations, and governed by one of the world's most oppressive regimes, it only began to open up in 2011 and just recently installed an elected government of sorts. Richard Cockett gives us a remarkable tour of this hidden society. Part political history and part travelogue, this is an outstanding introduction to the country for those unfamiliar with Burmese…
The South China Sea
Journal Article The South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia. By Bill Hayton Get access The South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia. By Bill Hayton. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2014. Index. 297pp. £16.00. ISBN 978 0 30018 683 3. Available as e-book. Joel Campbell Joel Campbell 1Troy University, Global Campus, Japan—Korea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 91,…
Asean resistance to sovereignty violation
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been one of the most successful organizations dedicated to regional integration. While not attempting the thick form of institutionalization seen in the European Union, it has established norms of peaceful resolution of conflicts, non-interference in domestic politics and protection of member states’ sovereignty. Scholarship has rarely examined exactly how the organization promotes members’ s…
Rising China's influence in developing Asia
One of the most discussed aspects of China's rise as a major power is the actual effect it may be having in east Asia and beyond. This volume, edited by Evelyn Goh, assesses the degree of Chinese influence on the developing countries of east, south-east and south Asia, through individual country case-studies and by examining issue areas. Goh suggests that there is considerable ‘slippage’ in China's ability to get foreign countries to do what it w…
Making China modern
First-rate general histories of modern China come along only once a decade or so. Klaus Mühlhahn of the Free University of Berlin has penned one of the best ones of this decade. Chinese history is a huge topic, with everything cast in superlatives, and the last two centuries are a well-trod story. Authors can easily get lost in the minutiae of emperors and revolutionaries, civil wars, invasions and warlords. Mühlhahn instead concentrates on China…
The Senkaku paradox
The Senkaku paradox: risking Great Power war over small stakes The Senkaku paradox: risking Great Power war over small stakes. By Michael E O'Hanlon. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press. 2019. 258pp. Index. Pb.: £16.30. Isbn978 0 81573 689 9. Available as e-book. Joel Campbell Joel Campbell Troy University, Global Campus, Japan–Korea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, …
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability Vol. 7
Looking to the past, uncertain about the future
The Japanese state and society face major challenges due to more than 20 years of economic stagnation and steady political transformation. The books reviewed here dissect a nation in the midst of change: its politics, political economy, and response to the triple disaster of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear incident (commonly referred to by the Japanese as 3.11) in 2011. John Dower considers Japanese difficulty in confronting …
The South China Sea
Journal Article The South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia. By Bill Hayton Get access The South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia. By Bill Hayton. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2014. Index. 297pp. £16.00. ISBN 978 0 30018 683 3. Available as e-book. Joel Campbell Joel Campbell 1Troy University, Global Campus, Japan—Korea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 91,…
Japan
Journal Article Japan: the paradox of harmony. By Keiko Hirata and Mark Warschauer Get access Japan: the paradox of harmony. By Keiko Hirata and Mark Warschauer. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2014. 295pp. Index. £20.00. ISBN 978 0 30018 607 9. Available as e-book. Joel Campbell Joel Campbell 1Troy University, global Campus, Japan–Korea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 9…
Effective multilateralism
China's recent creation of the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) may herald the arrival of the Middle Kingdom as a major power, one not timid about providing public goods and lending its weight to international organizations. In fact, we may be entering a new multipolar age, in which Asia will become the test bed for economic and security multilateralism. Jochen Prantl and his colleagues carefully examine this emerging topic from mu…
Incomplete democracies in the Asia-Pacific
Democracy is an ongoing process that proceeds in fits and starts, and involves much more than elections or free speech. It is refreshing to find a book that assumes that democracies, particularly east Asian ones, are fraught with complexity, popular impatience and backsliding. Young democracies are particularly prone to poorly institutionalized norms and longing for the order of recently abandoned autocracies. As the book under review went to pri…
Japanese and Korean politics
Journal Article Japanese and Korean politics: alone and apart from each other. Edited by Takashi and Japanese and Russian politics: polar opposites or something in common? Edited by Takashi Get access Japanese and Korean politics: alone and apart from each other. Edited by Takashi Inoguchi. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. 295pp. Index. £68.00. ISBN 978 1 13748 830 5.Japanese and Russian politics: polar opposites or something in common? Edited…
China looks at the West
China looks at the West: identity, global ambitions, and the future of Sino-American relations. By Christopher A.Ford. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky. 2015. 638pp. Index. £55.00. isbn 678 0 81316 540 0. Available as e-book. The western world, for hundreds of years, has generated images of China that have seized or repelled the popular imagination. The Middle Kingdom has been either an exotic ‘other’, full of promise and excitement, …
The China-Japan border dispute
This book is dedicated to ‘peace and prosperity in East Asia’, but if there is anything that could derail the order and stability of that region, it is the slow-burning Sino-Japanese conflict in the East China Sea (p. v). Territorial disputes over tiny uninhabited islands such as the Senkaku/Diaoyu chain seem to outsiders quite mad, but often are among the most intractable in international relations. As such disputes go, this one is white hot. Ti…
The European Union and Japan
We do not often think of the Japanese—European relationship as being among the most important in international relations. The editors of this volume intend to show that Japan and the European Union constitute a ‘vital axis for future global governance and ... an essential pillar in the emerging fluid global order’ (p. 2). Based on a number of symposiums and other meetings sponsored by Waseda and Oxford universities, the articles demonstrate how J…
Blood, dreams and gold
Myanmar (Burma) is an unknown country. Virtually isolated from most of the world for two generations, and governed by one of the world's most oppressive regimes, it only began to open up in 2011 and just recently installed an elected government of sorts. Richard Cockett gives us a remarkable tour of this hidden society. Part political history and part travelogue, this is an outstanding introduction to the country for those unfamiliar with Burmese…
Powerplay
It is a curious fact that, in the early postwar era, America opted for different sorts of politico-military alliances in Europe and Asia: a Europe-wide multilateral grouping in the form of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) versus a bilateral hub-and-spokes system in east Asia. In an excellent overview of early Cold War history, former Bush National Security staffer Victor Cha explains how the US developed the one-on-one system for Asi…
Poised for partnership
India and Japan may not seem like the most obvious political and economic partners. Separated by most of the Asian continent and possessing very different cultures and history, the two were on opposite sides in the Second World War and the Cold War, and followed diverging economic models. The contributors to this volume seek to show that theirs is now a budding relationship that has much promise not only for Tokyo and New Delhi, but for all of As…
Rising China's influence in developing Asia
One of the most discussed aspects of China's rise as a major power is the actual effect it may be having in east Asia and beyond. This volume, edited by Evelyn Goh, assesses the degree of Chinese influence on the developing countries of east, south-east and south Asia, through individual country case-studies and by examining issue areas. Goh suggests that there is considerable ‘slippage’ in China's ability to get foreign countries to do what it w…
Japan, South Korea, and the United States nuclear umbrella
The phrase ‘nuclear umbrella’ has always been an odd security formulation. Unlike a real umbrella, it does not really shield anyone from anything, most definitely not from nuclear war. And, unlike many security guarantees, it does not really guarantee that nuclear weapons would be used in the defence of an ally of a nuclear power. It does, nonetheless, serve various political and strategic ends and, due to these, it continues in contemporary use.…
Japan steps up its game
Japan's security posture is unique: it is at once a pacifist nation, controls one of the world's largest militaries, is heavily reliant on its alliance with the United States and remains in nearly continuous political conflict with its nearest neighbours over historical issues. The authors surveyed in this book review essay suggest that Japan's security policy-making has undergone a significant transformation that will reverberate for decades. An…
Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun
The old expression that familiarity breeds contempt never applied to two countries better than China and Japan. The neighbouring states have interacted with each other for nearly 2,000 years, and Japan has been greatly enriched by infusions of Chinese culture (think written Chinese characters, Buddhism and ceramics, to name only three), yet official relations have been contentious for centuries. The two countries have gone to war at least three t…
Postwar Japan
Rationality in the North Korean regime
When I tell people that I research east Asian politics, the topic of North Korea, and more specifically whether Kim Jong-un is crazy, often pops ups. Certainly, North Korea's political system is unusual in Asia, let alone the world. But are the leaders in Pyongyang off their rockers, or are they in fact rational decision-makers? David Shin, at the National Intelligence University in Maryland, suggests that the Kim dynasty leaders—Kim Il-sung, Kim…
Terrorism and counter-terrorism in China
To a casual reader, China does not immediately come to mind when the subject of terrorism is raised. We associate terrorism with ultra-violence in the Middle East, random bombings and shootings in western Europe and shadowy ragtag groups in south-east Asia. Even so, China has much experience of dealing with terrorist incidents, principally relating to pro-independence groups in its north-western Xinjiang province, and the country has played a maj…
The advocacy trap
Take any introductory International Relations course, and swiftly you will learn about the advent of non-state actors in the post-Cold War world. Among the most important are the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that pursue political or social causes in the public arena. Along with these, transnational advocacy networks (TANs) bring together various NGOs and other interested parties to put pressure on governments to change policy. In dealing…
Contested memories in Chinese and Japanese foreign policy
There are no two countries that are more tied up in knots about their bilateral history than China and Japan. The two fought a vicious death struggle in the 1930s and 1940s, involving Japanese offensive operations throughout the eastern third of China and accompanied by numerous atrocities. The worst single atrocity, from the Chinese perspective, was the Rape of Nanjing during the winter of 1937–8 when as many as 300,000 people may have been kill…
North Korean proliferation in the Middle East and Africa
One of the chief problems for ordinary people in understanding a regime like North Korea (DPRK) is that we lack full information about what the country is actually doing, either at home or abroad. The DPRK's activities appear so outrageous that we can believe almost anything about them. The truth may be far more prosaic. That is certainly the case for Pyongyang's arms sales to developing countries. North Korea observer Bruce Bechtol's analysis pr…
Asean resistance to sovereignty violation
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been one of the most successful organizations dedicated to regional integration. While not attempting the thick form of institutionalization seen in the European Union, it has established norms of peaceful resolution of conflicts, non-interference in domestic politics and protection of member states’ sovereignty. Scholarship has rarely examined exactly how the organization promotes members’ s…
Dying for rights
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) may have the worst human right record in the world. Imagine a country where you can be sentenced to a long prison term for singing a foreign song, possessing a bible, or complaining about a dire state-induced famine—and this only skims the surface. Perhaps due to preoccupation with the nuclear issue and the inability to get good data, there are few comprehensive works on rights in this benighted co…
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