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October 1, 2014 Topics of the Month
Comparative Southeast Asian Military Modernization – 1

Southeast Asia’s military modernization over the last half decade has been impressive. Defense expenditures across the region have risen, on average, by nine percent each year since 2009, […]

Felix K. Chang

Arms sales, code of conduct, defense expenditures, Indonesia, long-term commitment, Malaysia, maritime interests, Philippines, territorial ambitions, Vietnam
September 29, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (September 2014)

While the world’s gaze centered on Russia’s relations with the West and the on-again, off-again confrontation over Ukraine, Russian publications paraded a new, more assertive outlook on Russia’s […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRICS, Central Asia, dead hikiwake, India, liberal secularism, New Cold War, turn to the East, Ukraine
September 29, 2014 Topics of the Month
Civilizational Divides and Regional Confrontations – 1

To start this exchange, Gilbert Rozman wrote a meditative piece on the dangers of civilizational “pull” for Japan and France were they to respond with some complacency toward […]

François Godement

civilizational debates, cultural inward-thinking, France, Putinism, Sino-Russian quasi-alliance, strategic gambles, Ukraine
September 29, 2014 National Commentaries
A Japanese Perspective

"Reassessing the Park-Xi Summit"   For understandable reasons, the Japanese paid rapt attention to the July 2014 Seoul summit between China and South Korea. Perhaps, the most compelling […]

Kimura Kan*

China, collective self-defense, Japan, joint ceremony of remembrance, missile defense, National identity, National security, public opinion, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Territorial and historical consciousness questions, US
September 2, 2014 Topics of the Month
Civilizational Divides and Regional Confrontations – 2

Unlike previous Topics of the Month, this one will have multiple authors as well as rejoinders. The idea for it arose from Francois Godement’s observations that the European […]

Gilbert Rozman

Asia, China, Economic dependence, Europe, France, G7 sanctions, international community, Japan, National identity, National security, Regional civilizations, Russia, Ukraine, universal values, USA
September 2, 2014 Review Article
Japanese Publications on Japan-Russia Relations

Kaigai jijo, special Issue on turbulence in the sphere of the old Soviet Union, June 2014 Togo Kazuhiko, Hoppo ryodo kosho hiroku: ushinawareta gotabi no kikai [The Inside […]

Gilbert Rozman

China, Japan, Mini-Soviet Union, National identity, National security, Putin’s visit to Japan, Russia, sanctions, Sphere of influence, Territorial Disputes, Ukraine, USA
August 31, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (August 2014)

An article by Sun Ru in Zhongguo zhoubian distributed in its August 2014 posting took a close look at the US-Japan-South Korea triangle as it was strengthened by […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Arms trade, CK FTA, equilibrium, hegemonic thinking, India, public relations battle, Six-Party Talks, Southeast Asia, values-based diplomacy, Xi-Park Summit
August 19, 2014 Topics of the Month
India’s New Leadership and East Asia – 3

As befits a leading member of the Indian prime minister’s National Security Advisory Board, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri in his rejoinder adeptly lays out the nuances of India’s China […]

Daniel Twining

contested sovereignty, hedging, India, industrial corridors, Look East vs. Look West, military co-production, Military Modernization, Vietnam
August 11, 2014 Open Forum
Southeast Asia’s Developing Divide

The Asan Forum’s introductory Topics of the Month article on the present state of Northeast Asian strategic competition and regionalism by Sergey Radchenko shares much in common with […]

Malcolm Cook

ASEAN rebalancing, developing divide, foreign direct investment, FTAs, maritime-continental divide, multilateralism, Regionalism, Southeast Asia
August 11, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (August 2014)

On May 25, Yomiuri shimbun carried an article by Kitaoka Shinichi, who had chaired the advisory panel that had debated national security and defense capabilities. With the aim […]

Editorial Staff

collective self-defense, New type of great power relations, North Korea card, peripheral diplomacy, propaganda war, Ukraine, Vietnam