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October 17, 2014 Special Forum
Japan’s Approach to Southeast Asia in the Context of Sino-Japanese Relations

At times, since 2000, interest has piqued in Sino-Japanese competition—over Russia (rival proposals for an oil pipeline in the early 2000s), South Korea (maneuvering within ASEAN+3 and in […]

Gilbert Rozman

Asian values, Asianism, Australia, East Asian Community, Fukuda Doctrine, India, Rebalancing, Regionalism, Revisionism, South China Sea, Southeast Asia
October 15, 2014 Open Forum
Washington Insights, October 2014

The Obama visit to East Asia in April marked a transition from one set of discussions in Washington, DC to another. Instead of agonizing about Japan-ROK relations, there […]

Editorial Staff

ASEAN centrality, India, Indo-Pacific region, North Korean outreach, Park-Xi Summit, peaceful unification, Southeast Asia
October 15, 2014 Open Forum
Synopsis of the Asan Institute-Pacific Forum CSIS Conference on US-Japan-ROK Trilateral Relations

This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703

J. Berkshire Miller

contingency planning, cornerstone and linchpin, energy security, Japanese Abductees, Park-Xi Summit, public opinion, threat perceptions
October 15, 2014 Open Forum
Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat (TCS) of China, Japan and the ROK

A new impetus for regional cooperation arose at the third Korea-Japan-China trilateral summit held on May 30, 2010 on Jeju Island. Upon agreement among the three heads of […]

Shin Bong-kil*

ASEAN, ASEAN+3, Northeast Asian economic region, regional cooperation organization, Secretariat, trust
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 South Korean Perspective

"Reassessing the Park-Xi Summit"   In recent months, pundits in Washington and Tokyo talk or insinuate quite a bit about the so-called “Seoul-in-the-China-orbit” thesis. From this author’s perspective, […]

Chung Jae Ho*

EEZ, missile defense, national interests. strategic suspicion, overblown expectations, TPP, track 1.5 meeting
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 12, 2014 Topics of the Month
Japanese Politics Concerning Collective Self-Defense – 2

This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703

Hosoya Yuichi*

collective self-defense, internationalists, isolationists, pacifism, public opinion, TPP, US-Japan alliance
September 12, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (September 2014)

President Park’s “principled diplomacy” has been criticized for a lack of detailed policies. Park set the two diplomatic goals of a “Northeast Asian Peace Process” and a “Korean […]

Editorial Staff

Apologizing compensation", May 24 restrictions, principled diplomacy, reunification charter, sex slaves, small routes to North Korea, universal human rights and history