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October 18, 2013 Topics of the Month
The China Dream – 4

This monthly post tracks developments around the “China Dream” since September 17, 2013 and engages Manoranjan Mohanty whose view was summarized in the rejoinder to my previous post. […]

Ming Wan

APEC summit, CCP power, EAS, good-neighborly treaty, Li Keqiang, Mao legacy, purify the society, Shanghai FTA, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Xi Jinping
October 18, 2013 Topics of the Month
Japan-Russia Relations – 4

September and early October have been relatively calm months, but nevertheless, both in international events and in the rejoinders that we have received in this forum, there were […]

Kazuhiko Togo

2+2 Meetings, 70th Anniversary of World War II, no visa system, Putin, Putin’s image in Japan, Russian Foreign Ministry, Shinzo Abe, the China card
October 18, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (October 2013)

As opponents of “collective defense” at home and abroad warned that Japan would start on the same path that led it to war in the twentieth century, Kitaoka […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Iwaki Shigeyuki*)

Ahn Jung-geun, Chinese “new thinking”, debate over China, Park Geun-hye, Sino-Japan comparisons, South Korea=China
October 7, 2013 Open Forum
Introduction to the Open Forum

In this issue of the Open Forum we present the case for China from three points of view. Ren Xiao elaborates on what China’s leaders mean by the […]

Editorial Staff

China’s rise, dichotomy of economics and security, economics vs. geopolitics, historical legacy, idealism scrutinized, militarism, New type of great power relations, US as troublemaker, US mindset
October 7, 2013 Open Forum
“Warring States”—The Coming New World (Dis)order

The Korean Peninsula is the last citadel of a bygone era. Since the end of the Cold War, the United States as the reigning superpower has been the […]

Eric Li

cultural pragmatism, global architecture, historical determinism, ideology, status quo power
October 7, 2013 Topics of the Month
The ROK-US Alliance – 3

Defining Future Goals of the ROK-US Alliance During the Cold War era, South Korea anchored its security policy mainly to deterrence against the North Korean threat. The main […]

Chun Chaesung*

Alliance functions, regional security architecture, Reunification, Sino-US Relations
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
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