James Manicom
Biographic Data
| ID | 736052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Manicom |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Manicom |
| SIGNATURE | MANICOM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Balsillie School of International Affairs |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada
China’s Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada is one of the first in-depth studies of China’s increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese motivations and the potential impacts of greater Chinese presence in the circumpolar region, exploring resource development, shipping, scientific research, governance, and security. Drawing on extensive research in Chinese government documentation, business…
China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada
China's interest in the Arctic is growing. What does this mean for Canada? This wide-ranging, in-depth study of China's Arctic interests offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese presence and intentions in the circumpolar region. It explores resource development, shipping, scientific research, governance, and military strategy. Drawing on extensive research, this book eschews the assumption that Chinese actions are unified and monolithi…
Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Sea
Locating Middle Powers in International Relations Theory and Power Transitions
Middle Powers and the Rise of China
Rising Tides: Seapower and Regional Security in Northeast Asia
China and American Seapower in East Asia: Is Accommodation Possible
Debates about the future of American seapower in East Asia turn on the argument that American seapower presents a risky and costly luxury that undercuts the cooperative potential of US–China relations. This article asks whether accommodation between China and the United States on the possession and exercise of American seapower in East Asia is possible. Accommodation on this front could significantly lower the risks of unintended escalation and i…
The domestic politics of disputed Arctic boundaries: The Canadian case
This article presents a model for the analysis of the domestic-international nexus of Arctic politics. It offers a preliminary attempt at mapping the domestic politics of Arctic boundary disputes in Canada. It explores the potential impact of domestic politics on such disputes by identifying the interests of domestic stakeholders in the Canadian Arctic. The paper views maritime boundary negotiations as a ‘two-level game’ in which negotiations occ…
Identity Politics and the Russia-Canada Continental Shelf Dispute: An Impediment to Cooperation
The geopolitics of the Arctic region is viewed as a race for resources between coastal states. Yet, alarmist assessments are tempered by the reality that the most economically viable hydrocarbon reserves are entirely contained within the uncontested EEZs of the littoral states. Given this situation, confrontational rhetoric coming from Ottawa and Moscow seems not only troubling but peculiar. This article attempts to explain this peculiarity. It a…
China's rise and middle power democracies: Canada and Australia compared
Assessments of how international actors are responding to China's rise typically focus on rival great powers or on China's Asian neighbors. In these cases, relative power, geographic proximity, and regional institutions have conditioned relationships with China. The relationship of China with the developing world has mainly been defined by power asymmetry and the appeal of the Chinese governance model to authoritarian regimes. Largely absent from…
Oil Import Diversification in Northeast Asia: A Comparison Between China and Japan
In this article, we explore why oil import patterns differ between states with a view to understanding the relationship between agent-based explanations such as strategy and structural explanations—for example, geography. We compare degree of diversification between China and Japan in an effort to explore the relationship between agency and structure in the formation of energy security policy. The China-Japan comparison is contextualized with ref…
Maritime Boundary Disputes in East Asia: Lessons for the Arctic1
The impact of climate change on the circumpolar north has raised the profile of the Arctic Ocean to coastal states and presents serious foreign policy challenges. Chief among these is the pending delimitation dispute over the extended continental shelf between Canada, Denmark, the United States, and Russia. While delimitation disputes are not new to Arctic states, extended continental shelf claims are complicated by the existence of multiple clai…
Accommodation, realignment, or business as usual? Australia's response to a rising China
Since normalising diplomatic relations in 1972, successive Australian and Chinese governments have focused on deepening trade and investment links to such an extent that China now looms as one of the most critical countries on Australia's twenty-first century horizon. For their part, Chinese elites have welcomed closer ties with Australia and have been particularly keen to accelerate China's direct investment in the Australian mining and energy s…
Japan's Ocean Policy: Still the Reactive State
In 2005-06 Japan's strategic posture towards its maritime domain underwent a dramatic shift. Japan began asserting the jurisdictional rights to its maritime territory with greater authority than ever before. Tokyo prepared to conduct exploratory drilling in the disputed East China Sea and passed new laws to capitalize on Japan's maritime rights and responsibilities.1 This activist turn appears to be at odds with most explanations of Japanese stra…
Sino-Japanese strategic relations: Will rivalry lead to confrontation
This article analyses the strategic dynamics of the Sino-Japanese relationship and argues that the potential for confrontation between China and Japan has been exaggerated. There is an underlying tendency in much of the literature to treat the emergence of rivalry between China and Japan since the end of the cold war as synonymous with an inevitable drift towards bilateral strategic confrontation. This article argues that Beijing and Tokyo are be…
The interaction of material and ideational factors in the East China Sea dispute: Impact on future dispute management
This article seeks to explain the current phase of the East China Sea dispute between China and Japan. It argues that previous analyses privilege one aspect of the dispute over the other. Some stress the nationalist dimension of the dispute while others argue the primary motivations relate to the material wealth of the seabed combined with increased energy needs in China and Japan. By analysing the interaction between the nationalist (ideational)…
Sino-Japanese Cooperation in the East China Sea: Limitations and Prospects
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 30, Number 3, December 2008
Accommodation, realignment, or business as usual? Australia's response to a rising China
Since normalising diplomatic relations in 1972, successive Australian and Chinese governments have focused on deepening trade and investment links to such an extent that China now looms as one of the most critical countries on Australia's twenty-first century horizon. For their part, Chinese elites have welcomed closer ties with Australia and have been particularly keen to accelerate China's direct investment in the Australian mining and energy s…
The interaction of material and ideational factors in the East China Sea dispute: Impact on future dispute management
This article seeks to explain the current phase of the East China Sea dispute between China and Japan. It argues that previous analyses privilege one aspect of the dispute over the other. Some stress the nationalist dimension of the dispute while others argue the primary motivations relate to the material wealth of the seabed combined with increased energy needs in China and Japan. By analysing the interaction between the nationalist (ideational)…
China and American Seapower in East Asia: Is Accommodation Possible
Debates about the future of American seapower in East Asia turn on the argument that American seapower presents a risky and costly luxury that undercuts the cooperative potential of US–China relations. This article asks whether accommodation between China and the United States on the possession and exercise of American seapower in East Asia is possible. Accommodation on this front could significantly lower the risks of unintended escalation and i…
China's rise and middle power democracies: Canada and Australia compared
Assessments of how international actors are responding to China's rise typically focus on rival great powers or on China's Asian neighbors. In these cases, relative power, geographic proximity, and regional institutions have conditioned relationships with China. The relationship of China with the developing world has mainly been defined by power asymmetry and the appeal of the Chinese governance model to authoritarian regimes. Largely absent from…
Sino-Japanese Cooperation in the East China Sea: Limitations and Prospects
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 30, Number 3, December 2008
Rising Tides: Seapower and Regional Security in Northeast Asia
Identity Politics and the Russia-Canada Continental Shelf Dispute: An Impediment to Cooperation
The geopolitics of the Arctic region is viewed as a race for resources between coastal states. Yet, alarmist assessments are tempered by the reality that the most economically viable hydrocarbon reserves are entirely contained within the uncontested EEZs of the littoral states. Given this situation, confrontational rhetoric coming from Ottawa and Moscow seems not only troubling but peculiar. This article attempts to explain this peculiarity. It a…
Maritime Boundary Disputes in East Asia: Lessons for the Arctic1
The impact of climate change on the circumpolar north has raised the profile of the Arctic Ocean to coastal states and presents serious foreign policy challenges. Chief among these is the pending delimitation dispute over the extended continental shelf between Canada, Denmark, the United States, and Russia. While delimitation disputes are not new to Arctic states, extended continental shelf claims are complicated by the existence of multiple clai…
Sino-Japanese strategic relations: Will rivalry lead to confrontation
This article analyses the strategic dynamics of the Sino-Japanese relationship and argues that the potential for confrontation between China and Japan has been exaggerated. There is an underlying tendency in much of the literature to treat the emergence of rivalry between China and Japan since the end of the cold war as synonymous with an inevitable drift towards bilateral strategic confrontation. This article argues that Beijing and Tokyo are be…
The interaction of material and ideational factors in the East China Sea dispute: Impact on future dispute management
This article seeks to explain the current phase of the East China Sea dispute between China and Japan. It argues that previous analyses privilege one aspect of the dispute over the other. Some stress the nationalist dimension of the dispute while others argue the primary motivations relate to the material wealth of the seabed combined with increased energy needs in China and Japan. By analysing the interaction between the nationalist (ideational)…
Sino-Japanese Cooperation in the East China Sea: Limitations and Prospects
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 30, Number 3, December 2008
Sino-Japanese strategic relations: Will rivalry lead to confrontation
This article analyses the strategic dynamics of the Sino-Japanese relationship and argues that the potential for confrontation between China and Japan has been exaggerated. There is an underlying tendency in much of the literature to treat the emergence of rivalry between China and Japan since the end of the cold war as synonymous with an inevitable drift towards bilateral strategic confrontation. This article argues that Beijing and Tokyo are be…
Accommodation, realignment, or business as usual? Australia's response to a rising China
Since normalising diplomatic relations in 1972, successive Australian and Chinese governments have focused on deepening trade and investment links to such an extent that China now looms as one of the most critical countries on Australia's twenty-first century horizon. For their part, Chinese elites have welcomed closer ties with Australia and have been particularly keen to accelerate China's direct investment in the Australian mining and energy s…
Japan's Ocean Policy: Still the Reactive State
In 2005-06 Japan's strategic posture towards its maritime domain underwent a dramatic shift. Japan began asserting the jurisdictional rights to its maritime territory with greater authority than ever before. Tokyo prepared to conduct exploratory drilling in the disputed East China Sea and passed new laws to capitalize on Japan's maritime rights and responsibilities.1 This activist turn appears to be at odds with most explanations of Japanese stra…
Oil Import Diversification in Northeast Asia: A Comparison Between China and Japan
In this article, we explore why oil import patterns differ between states with a view to understanding the relationship between agent-based explanations such as strategy and structural explanations—for example, geography. We compare degree of diversification between China and Japan in an effort to explore the relationship between agency and structure in the formation of energy security policy. The China-Japan comparison is contextualized with ref…
Maritime Boundary Disputes in East Asia: Lessons for the Arctic1
The impact of climate change on the circumpolar north has raised the profile of the Arctic Ocean to coastal states and presents serious foreign policy challenges. Chief among these is the pending delimitation dispute over the extended continental shelf between Canada, Denmark, the United States, and Russia. While delimitation disputes are not new to Arctic states, extended continental shelf claims are complicated by the existence of multiple clai…
China's rise and middle power democracies: Canada and Australia compared
Assessments of how international actors are responding to China's rise typically focus on rival great powers or on China's Asian neighbors. In these cases, relative power, geographic proximity, and regional institutions have conditioned relationships with China. The relationship of China with the developing world has mainly been defined by power asymmetry and the appeal of the Chinese governance model to authoritarian regimes. Largely absent from…
Identity Politics and the Russia-Canada Continental Shelf Dispute: An Impediment to Cooperation
The geopolitics of the Arctic region is viewed as a race for resources between coastal states. Yet, alarmist assessments are tempered by the reality that the most economically viable hydrocarbon reserves are entirely contained within the uncontested EEZs of the littoral states. Given this situation, confrontational rhetoric coming from Ottawa and Moscow seems not only troubling but peculiar. This article attempts to explain this peculiarity. It a…
Locating Middle Powers in International Relations Theory and Power Transitions
Middle Powers and the Rise of China
Rising Tides: Seapower and Regional Security in Northeast Asia
China and American Seapower in East Asia: Is Accommodation Possible
Debates about the future of American seapower in East Asia turn on the argument that American seapower presents a risky and costly luxury that undercuts the cooperative potential of US–China relations. This article asks whether accommodation between China and the United States on the possession and exercise of American seapower in East Asia is possible. Accommodation on this front could significantly lower the risks of unintended escalation and i…
The domestic politics of disputed Arctic boundaries: The Canadian case
This article presents a model for the analysis of the domestic-international nexus of Arctic politics. It offers a preliminary attempt at mapping the domestic politics of Arctic boundary disputes in Canada. It explores the potential impact of domestic politics on such disputes by identifying the interests of domestic stakeholders in the Canadian Arctic. The paper views maritime boundary negotiations as a ‘two-level game’ in which negotiations occ…
Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Sea
China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada
China’s Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada is one of the first in-depth studies of China’s increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese motivations and the potential impacts of greater Chinese presence in the circumpolar region, exploring resource development, shipping, scientific research, governance, and security. Drawing on extensive research in Chinese government documentation, business…
China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada
China's interest in the Arctic is growing. What does this mean for Canada? This wide-ranging, in-depth study of China's Arctic interests offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese presence and intentions in the circumpolar region. It explores resource development, shipping, scientific research, governance, and military strategy. Drawing on extensive research, this book eschews the assumption that Chinese actions are unified and monolithi…
Political science (15 works) · China (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (5 works)