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November 26, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (November 2018)

The 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly President Moon Jae-in’s New York itinerary was all about sharing the meeting results from the Pyongyang summit he had […]

Kim Kimberly

Asia-Europe Meeting, comfort women, Panmunjom Declaration, Pope Francis, Pyongyang Declaration, UN General Assembly, US-DPRK summit
November 15, 2018 Open Forum
Washington Insights Vol. 6, No. 6

North Korea had slipped into the background, US-Japan ties had lost some significance, and China loomed ever larger as the fall began in DC. Concern was raised that […]

Editorial Staff

Abe-Xi Summit, BRI, free and open Indo-Pacific, maximum pressure, Sharp power, TPP, Trump-Kim summit
November 8, 2018 National Commentaries
A View from Japan

While the United States and China have fallen into a phase of confrontation, Abe Shinzo made the first official visit to China by a Japanese prime minister in […]

Takahara Akio*

BRI, free and open Indo-Pacific, Peace and Friendship Treaty, Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, Tiananmen Square, TPP
November 8, 2018 National Commentaries
A View from the United States

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo had hoped to improve ties with Beijing ever since returning to office in 2012, and finally, as China’s relations with the United States were […]

Sheila A. Smith

BRI, East China Sea, free and open Indo-Pacific, Hu-Fukuda agreement, Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands
November 8, 2018 National Commentaries
A View from China

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s Beijing tour in October of 2018 went well. It is not just the first time a Japanese prime minister has returned to Beijing in […]

Zhu Feng*

BRI, China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, free and open Indo-Pacific, RCEP, TPP
October 24, 2018 Special Forum
Introduction

The optimism about democratization that rose sharply in the second half of the 1980s and stood strong in the 1990s has fallen to its nadir in 2018. There […]

Editorial Staff

October 24, 2018 Special Forum
Democratization, National Identity, and Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia presents social scientists with a laboratory for the analysis of the relationship between democratization, national identities, and the consequences for foreign policy behavior. Types of nationalism, […]

Aurel Croissant

Confucianism, defective democracy, Embedded democracy, nationalist outbidding, polyarchy, Sinocentrism
October 24, 2018 Special Forum
The Mediating Role of National Identity in Democratization and Lessons from Post-Cold War Foreign Policy in Northeast Asia

Trade wars and security clashes are in the forefront across greater Asia, but we would be remiss to overlook the intensifying struggle over democratization as a factor in […]

Gilbert Rozman

color revolutions, Confucianism, free and open Indo-Pacific, Primorskii Krai, Russocentrism, Sinocentrism
October 24, 2018 Special Forum
The Chinese Model of Law, China’s Agenda in International Law, and Implications for Democracy in Asia and Beyond

A more influential Chinese model of law and approach to international law poses challenges for the rule of law’s contributions to democracy in other states, particularly in East […]

Jacques deLisle

Beijing Consensus, China Model, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Washington Consensus
October 23, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: China (October 2018)

In mid-2018, Chinese experts assessed China’s relations with South Korea and Japan’s increasingly autonomous approach toward North Korea. They examined the fragmentation of security cooperation mechanisms in Southeast […]

Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

America First, ASEAN Way, Asian security concept, Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, THAAD