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April 30, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 3, No. 2)

Different options have recently been aired before Washington think tanks for the regional architecture of Asia/the Asia-Pacific/the Indo-Pacific. Comparisons of four of these and the responses to some […]

Editorial Staff

APC, EAS, mililateralism, NAPCI, pivot to Asia, Sinocentrism, sub-regional multilateralism, TPP
April 30, 2015 Open Forum
Mongolia’s Dilemma: A Politically Linked, Economically Isolated Small Power

Mongolia operates under the geopolitical and economic forces of rising China, reactive Japan and Russia, and retrenching America. It strives to preserve its nomadic, democratic, and Buddhist identities […]

Mendee Jargalsaikhan

Abegeopolitics, Khaan Quest, Mongolia
April 30, 2015 Open Forum
The Strategic Alignment between Russia and China: Myths and Reality

Speculation about the possibility of China and Russia creating an official strategic alliance in response to American unipolar dominance is not new and can be traced back to […]

Alexander Korolev

April 30, 2015 Open Forum
A Stronger Korea-Mongolia Link in a Changing Northeast Asia

As the constellation of relationships that has dominated Asia for decades begins to evolve towards a new dynamic, the vocabulary of change has begun to foreshadow a very […]

Mark Minton

AIIB, MCA, Mongolia, NAPCI, National security, Regionalism, Ulaanbaatar Initiative
March 10, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights: February 2015

Triangularity figured heavily in DC seminars over the first two months of 2015. With the United States and China standing at opposite ends, coverage ranged from ASEAN to […]

Editorial Staff

normal nation, Revisionism, ROK-Japan Relations, TPP
March 5, 2015 Open Forum
Russia’s Policy towards China: Key Players and the Decision-making Process

Analyzing the foreign policy of modern states, many scholars lean towards describing different transactions as a result of interactions between states, which have their own interests and will, […]

Alexander Gabuev

Balancing Against the West, Kremlin, Personality Politics, pivot to Asia, Putin, Sino-Russian Relations
February 16, 2015 Open Forum
Making Sense of the Russo-North Korean Rapprochement

Although the six-party process about North Korean nuclearization is moribund if not dead, ongoing informal discussions among those parties are robust and ever evolving. Because these multi-party relationships […]

Stephen Blank

Ostpolitik, pivot to Asia, rapprochement, Ukraine
February 16, 2015 Open Forum
Beyond Geopolitics: South Korea’s Eurasia Initiative as a New Nordpolitik

Beyond Geopolitics: South Korea’s Eurasia Initiative as a New Nordpolitik 1 On October 18, 2013, at an international conference on Eurasian cooperation in Seoul, Park Geun-hye proposed the […]

Kim Taehwan*

Eurasia Initiative, NAPCI, National security, Nordpolitik, pivot state, Regionalism, trust-building
February 10, 2015 Open Forum
Synopsis of Five-University Collaboration, Dec. 2014

Agenda: Five University Collaboration on East Asia Security Conflict & Cooperation File Download In mid-December, faculty and graduate students at five universities in five countries met again to […]

Editorial Staff

Obama-Xi Summit, Six-Party Talks, TPP, Trustpolitik
December 30, 2014 Open Forum
Washington Insights: December 2014

The November summitry—APEC, the EAS, and the G20 as well as concomitant bilateral, trilateral, and other multilateral meetings—stimulated rethinking about regional relations. In Washington, this took the form […]

Editorial Staff

Asia for the Asians, Bipolarity, hedging against China, triangularity, US rebalancing