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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
October 7, 2013 Special Forum
North Korea in Japan’s Strategic Thinking

Through the repeated cycles of North Korean missile and nuclear testing, negotiations, and sanctions that have characterized international reaction to Pyongyang’s proliferation, Japan has gradually lost ground it […]

Sheila A. Smith

Alliance challenges, Japanese Abductees, military strategy, missile threat
October 7, 2013 Special Forum
Russian Strategic Thinking Regarding North Korea

For Russia the DPRK is not a normal state. The two facts that it is one of Russia’s nearest neighbors and it was founded by the Soviet Union […]

Alexander Lukin

priority of nuclear issue, Putin’s impact, soft position on pressure, Soviet approach, views of experts and politicians, views on unification
July 19, 2013 Special Forum
A New Cold War? Introduction to the July Special Forum

With this first issue of The Asan Forum, we post our first Special Forum, five articles that address different aspects of a single overarching theme on Asian international […]

Editorial Staff

infographics, New Cold War
July 19, 2013 Special Forum
Another Cold War in Asia?

The biggest strategic challenge for policymakers in the Asia-Pacific is the peaceful integration of China into the international order. Within three decades, China has transformed from a rural […]

Michishita Narushige*

Arms Race, Australia, New Cold War, Sino-US Relations, Southeast Asia, Trade
July 19, 2013 Special Forum
Is an Economic Cold War Emerging in Asia?

For the past 35 years, as China’s economic development accelerated in the post-Mao period, US policy towards the Asia-Pacific was aimed at fostering an environment that would gradually […]

Scott W. Harold

Beijing Consensus, FTAs, Investment, New Cold War, TPP, Trade, Washington Consensus
July 19, 2013 Special Forum
National Identity and Changing Great Power Relations in the Asia-Pacific: Is a Cold War Emerging?

International relations in the Asia-Pacific have long been driven and dominated by great power politics. Despite the growing significance of smaller nations and regional organizations in East Asian […]

Rex Li

Democratic Peace Theory, Global Financial Crisis, Japan as a Normal Power, Maritime Power, New Cold War, Strategic Encirclement
July 19, 2013 Special Forum
Cold War in Asia? China, Russia, and Asian Security

Although the Cold War ended by 1991, commentators, experts, and others repeatedly invoke this metaphor at any sign of great power tension. 1 Since the United States and […]

Stephen Blank

Arms Race, Central Asia, Cold War, India, New Cold War, Sino-Russian Relations, Southeast Asia
July 19, 2013 Special Forum
China and the United States Might Not Be Heading for a “New Cold War”

A broad range of issues is plaguing Sino-US relations in 2013. Strategic prospects might now be grimmer than at any time since the normalization of bilateral relations in […]

Zhu Feng*

Military Modernization, New Cold War, Rebalancing, South China Sea, Territorial Disputes