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February 14, 2019 Open Forum
The 1954 Geneva Conference on Korea: From Armistice to Stalemate

For fifty days in 1954, many of the Cold War’s preeminent figures met in Geneva to deal with “the Korean question,” how to reunite and bring peace to […]

Mark Tokola

Armistice, Geneva Conference, Kim Il-sung, Korean War, Syngman Rhee
February 11, 2019 Open Forum
The Struggle to Maintain Momentum in the Australia-India Partnership

In late November 2014, in the flurry of foreign visits that marked his early months in power, Narendra Modi became the first Indian prime minister in almost thirty […]

Ian Hall

Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, EAS, G20, Malabar exercises, Quad, RCEP
December 30, 2018 Open Forum
Japan’s Debates on Russia and China: What is New in the Final Months of 2018?

Japan’s relations with China and Russia have shifted in important ways in the final months of 2018, but each bilateral relationship needs to be differentiated into multiple dimensions. […]

Gilbert Rozman

December 20, 2018 Open Forum
Thirty Years of Japan’s Diplomacy toward the Korean Peninsula

When considering Japan’s politics and diplomacy toward North Korea over the thirty years from the second half of the 1980s four important developments warrant attention: 1) Nakasone’s approach […]

Miyagi Taizo

Cold War, Korean War, North Korean nuclear crisis, North-South Cross-recognition
December 11, 2018 Open Forum
The Last Asian Frontier? A Comparison of the Economic Cooperation Agendas of China, Japan, and South Korea with Uzbekistan

China, Japan and South Korea have regarded Central Asia (CA) as a new, and perhaps the last, Asian frontier in their foreign policies after the collapse of the […]

Timur Dadabaev

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Arc of Freedom and Prosperity, Eurasian Economic Union, Islam Karimov, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Xinjiang
November 15, 2018 Open Forum
Washington Insights Vol. 6, No. 6

North Korea had slipped into the background, US-Japan ties had lost some significance, and China loomed ever larger as the fall began in DC. Concern was raised that […]

Editorial Staff

Abe-Xi Summit, BRI, free and open Indo-Pacific, maximum pressure, Sharp power, TPP, Trump-Kim summit
October 18, 2018 Open Forum
Russia’s Revived Debate on China: Historical Perspective and Implicit Significance

In the fall of 2018, the case is again being made that Russia is likely to be amenable to distance itself from China despite the recent tightening of […]

Gilbert Rozman

BRI, BRICS, China Dream, Cold War, EEU, SCO, Silk Road, Yellow Peril
October 16, 2018 Open Forum
The Balance between Sinophobia and Discourse on Cooperation: Expert Opinion on China in Russia and Kazakhstan

The Beijing-Moscow-Astana triangle is the key to the processes of integration and economic cooperation in “Central Eurasia”—a recent but salient geopolitical construct, the appearance of which was brought […]

Ivan Zuenko

BRI, community of common destiny, EEU, Nurly Zhol, SCO, Sinophobia, SREB, Valdai Club
October 11, 2018 Open Forum
As China and Russia Draw Closer, Mongolia Feels the Squeeze

In September 2018 Russia carried out the largest military exercise since the height of the Cold War.1 Vostok-2018, held in Siberia, drew considerable attention in the Western media, […]

Sergey Radchenko

BRI, EEF, EEU, Khaltmaa “Genco” Battulga, SCO, third neighbor policy, Vladmir Putin, Xi Jinping
September 27, 2018 Open Forum
Washington Insights Vol. 6, No. 5

The start of the fall brought further confirmation that Trump is driving the agenda, whether by launching trade wars, disheartening allies, or refusing to attend the annual summit […]

Editorial Staff

BRI, Eastern Economic Forum, JSOMIA, New Northern Policy, Quad, SCO, Silk Road