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February 6, 2023 Special Forum
Introduction

What made South Korean foreign policy different in the early 2020s? The balance between conservatives and progressives was little changed; a leader from one party gave way to […]

Editorial Staff

Moon Jae-in, THAAD, Ukraine War, US-China rivalry, Yoon Suk-yeol
November 30, 2022 Special Forum
Introduction

Toward the end of 2022, as the Ukraine war was settling into an expected winter slowdown, the conundrum into which Russia had put itself had become shockingly obvious […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, free and open Indo-Pacific strategy, Fumio Kishida, South China Sea, Taiwan, Ukraine
September 22, 2022 Special Forum
Introduction

Overview of the Years 2017-2019 and View of Europe The two articles in this Special Forum cover Abe’s foreign policy focused on Europe—the foundation for a substantial success […]

Editorial Staff

free and open Indo-Pacific, NATO, Quad, Shinzo Abe, Taiwan, Ukraine War
July 26, 2022 Special Forum
Introduction

The four years from 2016 through 2019 were the most eventful in the post-democratization and post-Cold War period of South Korean history. Three goals had defined the entirety […]

Editorial Staff

impeachment, Moon Jae-in, nuclear diplomacy, Park Geun-hye, Trustpolitik
May 11, 2022 Special Forum
Revisiting Russia’s “Turn to the East” amid the Ukraine War

A decade after Vladimir Putin declared that Russia would “Turn to the East,” he invaded Ukraine in the largest land war in the West since World War II. […]

Editorial Staff

“Turn to the East”, color revolutions, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin
March 21, 2022 Special Forum
Tracking Japanese Thinking toward Asia: Early Abe, the Korean Peninsula, and Australia

This Special Forum approaches Japanese foreign policy from three angles. First, it tracks the momentous shift in thinking that occurred during the first four years of Abe Shinzo’s […]

Editorial Staff

Cold War, Russia, TPP, Ukraine, US-Japan alliance, WWII
December 27, 2021 Special Forum
Introduction

The period 2013-2015 in South Korean foreign policy was transformative for three reasons: (1) it exposed the fallacies in Seoul’s assumptions about the future of Northeast Asia more […]

Editorial Staff

NAPCI, Park Geun-hye, trilateralism, Trustpolitik, US-South Korean Alliance
October 15, 2021 Special Forum
Introduction

The bi-monthly country reports in The Asan Forum provide a continuous record of how changes in the Indo-Pacific region were interpreted in Russia and three other states. Drawing […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Eurasian Economic Union, Russian Far East, Silk Road Economic Belt, turn to the East
August 25, 2021 Special Forum
The Search for European Strategic Thinking on Russia and China

Prevailing trends in world politics, especially the return of great-power rivalry, create an urgent need for new strategic thinking in Europe. The effort to devise European strategic thinking […]

Brian G. Carlson

Liberal international order, NATO, New Cold War, US hegemony, US-China rivalry
August 25, 2021 Special Forum
Europe’s Threat Assessments of Russia and China

European governments, NATO, the EU, and the G7 all identify China and Russia as threats; however, an analysis of threat assessments reveals a mix of unity and diversity. […]

Stephen Blank

Liberal international order, NATO, New Cold War, US hegemony, US-China rivalry