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Gilbert Rozman

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August 4, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II: This Triangle Will Take Shape

The arguments against this triangle taking shape are essentially three-fold. First, North Korea will not abandon its nuclear weapons and will not accept a secondary role in relation […]

Gilbert Rozman

Cold War, Iran nuclear deal, Regionalism, Six-Party Talks
June 12, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario I: This Triangle Will Take Shape

In the period 1949-1989, the Northern Triangle comprised of China, the Soviet Union, and North Korea played a formidable role in a hot war and then in the […]

Gilbert Rozman

US Pivot to Asia
June 11, 2015 Special Forum
Option 5: Rethinking Middle Power Diplomacy

Since the Cold War, South Korea has never been in a lonelier position as four great powers and North Korea have appeared to bypass it in their “pivots” […]

Gilbert Rozman

Eurasian Initiative, hedging, MIKTA, NAPCI, Trustpolitik, US-Japan-ROK Trilateralism
February 27, 2015 Review Article
‘Sengo 70nen hoshu no Ajiakan’ [‘The Asian Views of Conservatives over the Postwar 70 Years’]

Wakamiya Yoshibumi, Sengo 70nen hoshu no Ajiakan, [The Asian Views of Conservatives over the Postwar 70 Years] (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun shuppan, December 25, 2014) In the face of […]

Gilbert Rozman

collective self-defense, conservatism, hereditary leadership, Revisionism, Shinzo Abe, Yasukuni Shrine
February 5, 2015 Special Forum
Realism vs. Revisionism in Abe’s Foreign Policy in 2014

This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703

Gilbert Rozman

comfort women, gaiatsu, history war, Revisionism, TPP, Xi-Abe summit, Yasukuni Shrine
December 1, 2014 Special Forum
The Russian Pivot to Asia

Vladimir Putin’s “turn to the East” (povorot na Vostok) greatly intensified in 2014. Of the various pivots to Asia it is one of the most controversial, but, at […]

Gilbert Rozman

APEC summit, Eurasian Economic Union, Eurasianism, Russian Far East Development, Silk Road Economic Belt, turn to the East
October 29, 2014 Review Article
Civilizational Polarization and Japan

This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703

Gilbert Rozman

Civilizations, comfort women, Constitutionalism, Hong Kong, polarization, right of collective self-defense, secrecy law, Ukraine
October 17, 2014 Special Forum
Japan’s Approach to Southeast Asia in the Context of Sino-Japanese Relations

At times, since 2000, interest has piqued in Sino-Japanese competition—over Russia (rival proposals for an oil pipeline in the early 2000s), South Korea (maneuvering within ASEAN+3 and in […]

Gilbert Rozman

Asian values, Asianism, Australia, East Asian Community, Fukuda Doctrine, India, Rebalancing, Regionalism, Revisionism, South China Sea, Southeast Asia
September 2, 2014 Topics of the Month
Civilizational Divides and Regional Confrontations – 2

Unlike previous Topics of the Month, this one will have multiple authors as well as rejoinders. The idea for it arose from Francois Godement’s observations that the European […]

Gilbert Rozman

Asia, China, Economic dependence, Europe, France, G7 sanctions, international community, Japan, National identity, National security, Regional civilizations, Russia, Ukraine, universal values, USA
September 2, 2014 Review Article
Japanese Publications on Japan-Russia Relations

Kaigai jijo, special Issue on turbulence in the sphere of the old Soviet Union, June 2014 Togo Kazuhiko, Hoppo ryodo kosho hiroku: ushinawareta gotabi no kikai [The Inside […]

Gilbert Rozman

China, Japan, Mini-Soviet Union, National identity, National security, Putin’s visit to Japan, Russia, sanctions, Sphere of influence, Territorial Disputes, Ukraine, USA