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March 31, 2015 National Commentaries
A South Korean Perspective

  "Missile Defense on the Korean Peninsula"   A South Korean View on the Deployment of THAAD to the ROK   On March 16, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu […]

Woo Jung-Yeop*

ROK-US Alliance, THAAD
March 31, 2015 National Commentaries
A US Perspective

  "Missile Defense on the Korean Peninsula"   From Political Taboo to Strategic Hedge: A US Perspective on Ballistic Missile Defense   Ballistic missile defense (BMD) is both […]

Van Jackson

Asymmetry, ROK-US Alliance, strategic hedge, THAAD
March 18, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2015)

Assessments of the Park administration’s foreign policy Marking the third year of the Park administration, criticism of her foreign policy grew more intense. On March 2, a Chosun […]

Editorial Staff

Asia-Pacific alliance, TPP, Wendy Sherman
March 10, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights: February 2015

Triangularity figured heavily in DC seminars over the first two months of 2015. With the United States and China standing at opposite ends, coverage ranged from ASEAN to […]

Editorial Staff

normal nation, Revisionism, ROK-Japan Relations, TPP
March 2, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (February 2015)

South Korea preoccupied Japanese media more than China, recognized as a threat, North Korea, posing an ever greater threat, and Russia, which was transfixing the media elsewhere. Conservatives […]

Editorial Staff

historical revisionism, Murayama Statement, Yasukuni Shrine
February 27, 2015 Review Article
‘Sengo 70nen hoshu no Ajiakan’ [‘The Asian Views of Conservatives over the Postwar 70 Years’]

Wakamiya Yoshibumi, Sengo 70nen hoshu no Ajiakan, [The Asian Views of Conservatives over the Postwar 70 Years] (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun shuppan, December 25, 2014) In the face of […]

Gilbert Rozman

collective self-defense, conservatism, hereditary leadership, Revisionism, Shinzo Abe, Yasukuni Shrine
February 27, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2015)

An article by Zhong Feiteng in Waijiao pinglun describes China’s new Asian strategy. It observes that Europe has been the geopolitical center and Asia the periphery, and Great […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

ASEAN, Cool Japan, Indo-Pacific strategy, Korean wave, Maritime Silk Road, Peaceful Development, Ukraine
February 5, 2015 Special Forum
Abe Shinzo: Japan’s Most Consequential Prime Minister since Yoshida Shigeru

Introduction to Special Forum Abe Shinzo: Japan’s Most Consequential Prime Minister since Yoshida Shigeru   The year 2015 promises to be a milestone in Japan’s transition from a […]

Editorial Staff

Abenomics, comfort women, commemorations, Shinzo Abe, TPP, Yasukuni Shrine
January 12, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (January 2015)

Deepening confrontation between China-North Korea-Russia on one side and South Korea-the United States-Japan on the other was the center of discussion over the last two months. As the […]

Editorial Staff

Eurasia Initiative, human rights, Korean reunification, Revisionism, sanctions, Yasukuni Shrine
December 30, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2014)

The prevailing Chinese narrative is zero-sum, blaming Japan unsparingly and the United States, if in a less vitriolic manner, for regional fragmentation when a path to integration is […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Japanese containment, New Cold War, Sino-ROK alliance, US-ROK alliance