The Gathering Storm: Russian Naval Power and Japanese Ambitions In the spring of 1895, the waters off China’s Shandong Peninsula […]
The Geopolitical Chessboard of 19th-Century East Asia In the twilight of the 19th century, the decaying Qing Dynasty became the […]
The Gathering Storm: Russia’s Strategic Dilemma in East Asia In the winter of 1895, as the Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) neared […]
A Sudden Transition of Power On November 2, 1894 (October 21 by the old Julian calendar), the Russian Empire faced […]
A Military Observer in the Far East In the turbulent summer of 1894, Russian naval captain Vogak found himself at […]
The Powder Keg of East Asia: Origins of the Conflict The late 19th century witnessed a dramatic shift in East […]
The Powder Keg of Late 19th Century Korea The summer of 1894 witnessed a seismic shift in East Asian geopolitics […]
The Tinderbox of 1894: Rising Tensions in Korea In the summer of 1894, Korea became the focal point of escalating […]
The Gathering Storm in Joseon Korea In the summer of 1894, tensions in East Asia reached a boiling point as […]
A Tsarist Officer in the Far East In the closing decades of the 19th century, the Russian Empire turned its […]
The Geopolitical Landscape of Late 19th-Century Europe The final decade of the 19th century witnessed a dramatic realignment of European […]
A Ceremony in Vladivostok: The First Shovels of an Empire On May 30, 1891 (Old Style: May 18), Crown Prince […]
A Grand Tour with Geopolitical Undertones In the spring of 1891, Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia—future Emperor Nicholas II—embarked on […]
A Tense Prelude to Imperial Diplomacy In late 19th-century East Asia, Russia and Japan stood at a crossroads of imperial […]
The Rise of Sergei Witte and Russia’s Far Eastern Ambitions In March 1889, Sergei Witte was appointed Director of Railway […]
The Asymmetrical Dawn of Cultural Exchange In the closing decades of the 19th century, Japan and Russia developed strikingly different […]
The Geopolitical Chessboard of 1880s East Asia In the closing decades of the 19th century, the Korean Peninsula became the […]
A Monarch Between Two Worlds Born in 1852—the same year as Japan’s Emperor Meiji—King Gojong of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty ascended […]
A Fateful Bombing in St. Petersburg On March 13, 1881, Tsar Alexander II of Russia met a violent end when […]
The Meiji Restoration and Japan’s Expansionist Ambitions The Meiji Restoration of 1868 marked Japan’s dramatic transformation from a feudal society […]
The Geopolitical Chessboard of Northeast Asia In the turbulent aftermath of the Meiji Restoration (1868), Japan faced numerous challenges in […]
The Pioneering Work That Shaped Historical Understanding The foundation for modern scholarship on Japan’s foreign policy from the Bakumatsu period […]
