Looking Back on The Asan Forum, 2013-25, as Editor and Author

As my career at Princeton University reached its end, I was fortunate to be asked by the Asan Institute to launch The Asan Forum. As the bi-monthly, on-line […]

The Evolution of Chinese Thinking, 1985-2025, about the Cold War in Asia

Since the end of the Cold War, historical memory has come to occupy a central place in thinking about international relations. Under the mindset of the postwar polarized […]

The Evolution of Russian Thinking, 1985-2025, about the Early Cold War in Asia

On May 9, 2025, Vladimir Putin commemorated the victory of the Soviet Union eighty years earlier, heralding its significance for Asia as well as Europe. On September 3, […]