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November 22, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (November 2013)

The Russian media kept its eye on areas around China’s borders, cautiously raising questions about clashing Russian and Chinese interests. In September the spotlight turned to Central Asia. […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Anti-Americanism, Balanced diplomacy, economic regionalism, Iron Silk Road, Moscow-Beijing axis, Multipolarity, natural gas price, Southeast Asia, Vietnam
November 22, 2013 Topics of the Month
Japan-Russia Relations – 5

Japan-Russia relations in November saw a certain degree of activation. At the October 7 meeting between Abe and Putin in Bali, an agreement was reached to hold the […]

Kazuhiko Togo

2+2 Meetings, Article 9, Korean self-righteousness, new national security offices, Yachi Shotaro
November 22, 2013 Review Article
New South Korean Academic Writings on Contemporary Japan and Japanese-Korean Relations

South Korean academic writings of 2013 provide a useful window through which students of Japan worldwide can observe Japan and Japanese-Korean relations. So far this year, I found […]

Kim Jiyoung*

Abe Shinzo, comfort women, lack of common goals, military power, threat perceptions
November 22, 2013 Special Forum
Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership Cooperative Relations and the US Factor

After the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, Sino-Soviet relations became Sino-Russian relations. For more than twenty years, these relation ns have developed extremely smoothly, and […]

Li Jingjie*

long-term overlapping interests, mutual economic need, new type of bilateral relationship, Smoothly developing relations, triangularity, US rebalancing
November 8, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (November 2013)

Japan and the ROK-US-Japan triangle preoccupied the Korean media through the early autumn. Criticism of the Abe administration only intensified, but it came amid growing concern about whether […]

Editorial Staff

collective defense, forced labor, missile defense, sex slaves, TPP, Trustpolitik, US triangularity, Yasukuni Shrine
November 6, 2013 Open Forum
Synopsis of the Asan Seminar: “Managing ROK-US Relations”

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

Editorial Staff

Chuck Hagel, collective defense, Kurt Campbell, middle power, peace-loving Japan, public opinion, triangularity, Trustpolitik
November 6, 2013 Open Forum
ROK and US Views on the Foreign Policy of the Abe Administration

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

Bong Youngshik*

deference diplomacy, Dokdo /Takeshima, Japan-US alliance, mutual abandonment, Park Geun-hye, rebalancing’s impact, Shinzo Abe, Yasukuni
November 6, 2013 Topics of the Month
The ROK-US Alliance – 5

The US-ROK Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Overcoming the Impasse The United States and Republic of Korea have enjoyed a strong partnership for over 60 years, which has contributed […]

Robert J. Einhorn

123 Civil Nuclear Agreement, enrichment, non-proliferation, Nuclear Technology Transfer Agreement, reprocessing
October 18, 2013 Topics of the Month
The ROK-US Alliance – 4

Progress amidst Problems: Readout of This Month’s ROK-US Annual Security Meeting Thanks to Secretary Chuck Hagel’s important visit to South Korea last week, the ROK-US alliance is on […]

Richard Weitz

Ballistic missile defense, Chuck Hagel, extended deferrence, Kim Kwan-jin, OPCON transfer, preemption, Special Measure Agreement
October 7, 2013 Topics of the Month
The ROK-US Alliance – 3

Defining Future Goals of the ROK-US Alliance During the Cold War era, South Korea anchored its security policy mainly to deterrence against the North Korean threat. The main […]

Chun Chaesung*

Alliance functions, regional security architecture, Reunification, Sino-US Relations