TY - BOOK AU - GUSTAFSSON Karl TI - Routinised recognition and anxiety: understanding the deterioration in Sino-Japanese relations PY - 2016/// KW - JAPAN KW - ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY KW - CHINA KW - ANXIETY N2 - This article has argued that deteriorations in interstate relations can result from disruptions to states reciprocally performed routinised recognition and disruptions can occur through three anxiety-inducing mechanisms. The article explains why bilateral relations might deteriorate even in a situation characterised by routinised mutual recognition ER -