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January 25, 2014 Special Forum
A National Identity Approach to Japan’s Late 2013 Foreign Policy Thinking

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

Gilbert Rozman

Autonomy, civilizational entitlement, civilizational humiliation, realism, sovereignty, the rebalance
November 22, 2013 Special Forum
Introduction to Special Forum on Sino-Russian Relations in Triangular Context

The year 2013 is memorable for the increasing liveliness of discussions about the future of Sino-Russian relations. When Xi Jinping made his first visit as president in March […]

Editorial Staff

Alliance, ASEAN, Eurasian Union, infographics, Multipolarity, triangularity
November 22, 2013 Special Forum
Japan-Russia Relations in Triangular Context with China

While attention is riveted to Sino-Japanese relations and, lately, has increasingly focused also on Sino-Russian relations, Japan’s relations with Russia have drawn little notice. To the extent that […]

Hyodo Shinji*

2+2 Meetings, Arctic Council, Japan-Russia maritime cooperation, joint military exercises, Okhotsk Sea, Putin, Russia’s Far East exercises, Senkaku (Diaoyu)
November 22, 2013 Special Forum
Russia’s China Challenge in a Changing Asia: An American Perspective

Russia’s relations with China have steadily improved for about twenty years after a brief, strong, pro-Western tilt in Russian foreign policy right after the collapse of the Soviet […]

Andrew Kuchins

Axis of necessity, complementarity, distrust, natural gas politics, oil politics, Russia’s pivot to Asia, Russian diversification in Asia, swing state
November 22, 2013 Special Forum
Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership Cooperative Relations and the US Factor

After the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, Sino-Soviet relations became Sino-Russian relations. For more than twenty years, these relation ns have developed extremely smoothly, and […]

Li Jingjie*

long-term overlapping interests, mutual economic need, new type of bilateral relationship, Smoothly developing relations, triangularity, US rebalancing
November 22, 2013 Special Forum
Sino-Russian Competition in Mongolia

In recent years China and Russia have presented a solid façade of “strategic partnership,” with leaders emphasizing complementarity of national interests and common approaches to many international problems […]

Sergey Radchenko

Commercial competition, Elbegdorj, Enkhbayar, indirect undercutting, mining, third neighbor policy, trans-Mongolian railroad
November 22, 2013 Special Forum
China-Russia Relations in Central Asia

China-Russia relations in Central Asia are attracting increasing attention from scholars and policymakers. Most analysis thus far, however, has employed the competition framework in examining this relationship. In […]

Zhao Huasheng*

economic integration, limited competition, mutual strategic interests, natural resources, rules of the game, SCO, Silk Route Economic Zone, the US factor
October 7, 2013 Special Forum
Introduction to Special Forum on Strategic Thinking about North Korea

North Korea has been discussed widely, especially since Kim Jong-un took the reins after Kim Jong-il’s death. Yet, not often is it considered to be a subject of […]

Editorial Staff

Denuclearization, infographics, Putin’s pivot, regional balance of power, Reunification, Sino-US cooperation, Sinocentrism, testing US alliances, triangles
October 7, 2013 Special Forum
Chinese Strategic Thinking Regarding North Korea

In 2013, China is faced with the challenge of weighing the alternative goals of a favorable balance of power in Northeast Asia, a process of reunification on the […]

Cheng Xiaohe*

Balance of power, historical lessons, reunification conditions
October 7, 2013 Special Forum
South Korea’s Strategic Thinking on North Korea and Beyond

For more than six decades, South Korea has coped with one of the most enduring geopolitical asymmetries in the world, namely, the South-North conundrum on the Korean Peninsula. […]

Lee Chung Min*

hybrid security template, need for security guidance, North Korea, North Korea challenges, opinion surveys, polarized worldviews