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August 18, 2015 Open Forum
Striking the Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement: The Case of Intellectual Property in the Trans-Pacific Partnership and US-Northeast Asian Economic Relations

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations are reaching their final stage. There is a good chance that they will be concluded within a month or two. While this economic pact […]

June Park

Economic Relations, Intellectual property, Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement, Trans-Pacific Partnership
August 13, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 3, No. 4)

The Cold War era is looking different from before in hindsight of the 2010s. The key breakthroughs in bilateral relations now seem less transformative, even to a degree […]

Editorial Staff

Abe-Obama summit, Japan-US relations, Regionalism, Sino-ROK Relations, unification
August 13, 2015 Open Forum
Grand Strategy for South Korea? An Overview

All countries need a grand strategy. This is particularly true for the countries located in Northeast Asia. For the Republic of Korea (ROK), the nation’s geopolitical position, the […]

Han Sung-Joo*

Japan-US relations, National security, Sino-Russian Relations, trust-building
August 3, 2015 National Commentaries
A South Korean Commentary

"The Iran Nuclear Deal and the North Korean Nuclear Issue"   The nuclear deal reached in Vienna on July 14 between Iran and the six world powers, the […]

Chun Yungwoo*

IAEA, National security, September 19 Joint Statement of 2005, Six-Party, Talks
July 17, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (July 2015)

With the seventieth anniversary of the end of the war and the division of the Korean Peninsula coming up in August, diplomatic challenges continued, especially in South Korea’s […]

Editorial Staff

Middle Power Diplomacy, National security, OPCON, Regionalism, The China Paradox
June 18, 2015 Review Article
‘The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States’

  Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder, The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015). As we approach […]

Sharon Yoon

historical revisionism, reconciliation, Shinzo Abe
June 11, 2015 Special Forum
Introduction: Decomposing and Assessing South Korea’s Hedging Options

Increasingly scholars have opined that South Korea’s response vis-à-vis a rebalancing United States and a resurgent China—like that of other Asian states (except Japan and the Philippines)—is neither […]

Kuik Cheng-Chwee*

hedging, ROK-Sino Relations
June 11, 2015 Special Forum
Option 1: Enhancing Military Deterrence

In the face of the intensifying threat from North Korea, the option that should be foremost in the strategic calculus of South Koreans is enhancing their country’s capacity […]

Hong Kyudok*

KAMD, Kill-Chain, MRL
June 11, 2015 Special Forum
Option 2: Strengthening the ROK-US Alliance

*The views expressed in this report are the author’s alone and do not represent the official position of the Department of the Navy, the Department of Defense, or […]

Terence Roehrig

OPCON transfer, ROK-US Alliance, THAAD
June 11, 2015 Special Forum
Option 3: Reclaiming Diplomatic Ownership

During the more than five centuries of the Yi dynasty (1392-1910), Korea practiced one-dimensional diplomacy; it had only to take care of its tributary relationship with China. Within […]

Choi YJ*

AIIB, multidimensional diplomacy, Sino-US Relations, TPP