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December 20, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2018)

In late 2018, Chinese experts assessed China’s relations with India and India’s maritime strategy in the Indian Ocean under the Modi administration. They examined the revival of the […]

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

"Belt and Road" Initiative, America First, free and open Indo-Pacific, Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, THAAD
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
December 11, 2018 Open Forum
The Last Asian Frontier? A Comparison of the Economic Cooperation Agendas of China, Japan, and South Korea with Uzbekistan

China, Japan and South Korea have regarded Central Asia (CA) as a new, and perhaps the last, Asian frontier in their foreign policies after the collapse of the […]

Timur Dadabaev

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Arc of Freedom and Prosperity, Eurasian Economic Union, Islam Karimov, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Xinjiang
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
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