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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 5, 2013 Open Forum
Economic Priorities and Geopolitical Advantages

After World War II, the structure of geopolitical competition changed. New economic strategies created extraordinarily high growth rates that enabled countries to become major powers quickly by focusing […]

William H. Overholt

economic strategies, geopolitical strategies, peaceful rises, Rebalancing
October 4, 2013 Open Forum
Modeling a “New Type of Great Power Relations”: A Chinese Viewpoint

Forging a “new type of great power relations” is a novel foreign relations concept that China has proposed and emphasized of late, drawing widespread attention. It has taken […]

Ren Xiao*

established power, New type of great power relations, rising power, Xi Jinping
October 4, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: China (October 2013)

Chinese writings on international relations in the Asia-Pacific region continue to be the most prolific and informative in comparison to Japanese, Korean, and Russian writings. Despite censorship and […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Pang Zengjun)

Bipolarity, economic regionalims, equal dialogue with US, India, Japan’s threat, North Korean buffer, Park Geun-hye, SCO, seapower, Shinzo Abe, Sino-Russian alliance
September 30, 2013 National Commentaries
US Perspective

Deterrence, NPT and the Two Koreas What Has Changed and What Is New in Engaging North Korea? (from remarks prepared for the Asan Nuclear Forum, February 2013) The […]

Robert L. Gallucci

deterrence, Engagement, Nuclear terrorism, Nuclear weapons, Reunification
September 17, 2013 Topics of the Month
The China Dream – 3

This monthly post tracks developments around the “China Dream” since August 16, 2013. It continues to be the case that if we follow the thread of the “China […]

Ming Wan

China Dream, ideological struggle, leadership differences, Liu Yunshan, Xi Jinping, Yang Jiechi
September 16, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (September 2013)

Russia’s thirst for multipolarity on terms that would not require reconsideration of its assumptions about countries active in East Asia was on vivid display through the summer. Hopes […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

ASEAN, China alliance, Cold war school, Collective system of security, Evgenyi Bazhanov, Gleb Ivashentsov, Multipolarity, Putin
September 16, 2013 Open Forum
Asan Washington Forum Synopsis Part 2: The Alliance and North Korea

In this second and final part of the synopsis of the June 24-25 discussion, we focus on the triangle with North Korea. This summation may be read in […]

Editorial Staff

Denuclearization, Optimists, Park Geun-hye, Pessimists, ROK-US Alliance, Trustpolitik
September 13, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (September 2013)

In a speech delivered on the sixty-eighth anniversary of Liberation Day, Park Geun-hye said, “Japanese politicians need to show courageous leadership to heal wounds from the past to […]

Editorial Staff

dependency on China, inter-Korean trust process, Merkel, mutual abandonment, Park Geun-hye, Shinzo Abe, Xi Jinping, Yasukuni Shrine
September 1, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (September 2013)

Coverage of Abe Shinzo in the Japanese media has centered on three familiar themes and on one that has gone mostly unnoticed abroad. The July 21 Upper House […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Iwaki Shigeyuki*)

Apology diplomacy, Chinese power struggle, PLA, virtuous history, Xi Jinping