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December 27, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (December 2018)

The last part of 2018 was marked by the hopeful aftermath of the Abe-Xi summit and the new push by Abe and Putin to resolve the long-lingering dispute […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, America First, APEC, East Asia Summit, free and open Indo-Pacific, Korea boom, Tokyo Strategy 2018
December 20, 2018 Open Forum
Thirty Years of Japan’s Diplomacy toward the Korean Peninsula

When considering Japan’s politics and diplomacy toward North Korea over the thirty years from the second half of the 1980s four important developments warrant attention: 1) Nakasone’s approach […]

Miyagi Taizo

Cold War, Korean War, North Korean nuclear crisis, North-South Cross-recognition
November 29, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (November 2018)

The extraordinary flux in the Indo-Pacific area has elicited diverse and exploratory writing in Russia. No part of the region is ignored in the search for answers as […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI, inter-Korean summit, KORUS FTA, Made in China 2025, SCO, turn to the East, 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
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
October 18, 2018 Open Forum
Russia’s Revived Debate on China: Historical Perspective and Implicit Significance

In the fall of 2018, the case is again being made that Russia is likely to be amenable to distance itself from China despite the recent tightening of […]

Gilbert Rozman

BRI, BRICS, China Dream, Cold War, EEU, SCO, Silk Road, Yellow Peril