Option 1: Enhancing Military Deterrence
In the face of the intensifying threat from North Korea, the option that should be foremost in the strategic calculus of South Koreans is enhancing their country’s capacity […]
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Option 2: Strengthening the ROK-US Alliance
*The views expressed in this report are the author’s alone and do not represent the official position of the Department of the Navy, the Department of Defense, or […]
Option 3: Reclaiming Diplomatic Ownership
During the more than five centuries of the Yi dynasty (1392-1910), Korea practiced one-dimensional diplomacy; it had only to take care of its tributary relationship with China. Within […]
Option 4: Resuming the Six-Party Talks
The Korean Peninsula has been divided for over seventy years, and there is no sign that the division will end any time soon. The ROK and the DPRK […]
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” […]
Four “Middle Power” Pivots to Asia
In this cluster of four articles on pivots to Asia, we expand the range covered in the Special Forum on pivots to Asia posted in the final issue […]
Less Geneva, More Jakarta? Assessing Australia’s Asia Pivot
The history of Australia’s engagement with Asia is littered with debates about identity and destiny. Settled in 1788 as a British colonial outpost, Australia’s federation did little to […]
Recalibrating the Rebalance: A View from South Korea
Akin to other key Asian powers that have a long-standing alliance with the United States, South Korea has welcomed America’s renewed attention to Asia although this is hardly […]
Kazakhstan’s Multi-vector Foreign Policy: Diminishing Returns in an Era of Great Power “Pivots”?
Since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia in 2011, the other most consequential powers—China, Russia, India, and Japan—have constructed their own versions […]
Europe’s Incomplete Pivot to Asia
We have been talking about the pivot to Asia, and discussing for so long about the US turning its back on Europe. I have always been convinced that […]