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June 25, 2019 Special Forum
Democratization, National Identity, and Foreign Policy in Mongolia in 2019

Democracy came to Mongolia in the aftermath of the Cold War as one of the uplifting success stories of that era, and it has survived for three decades […]

Mendee Jargalsaikhan

color revolution, electoral democracy, Mongolian People’s Party, Third neighbors
June 25, 2019 Special Forum
Democratization, National Identity and Indonesia’s Foreign Policy

Indonesia has gone through a drastic transformation since the downfall of President Suharto in May 1998. Its national identity has evolved as a result of a process of […]

Ralf Emmers

Bali Democracy Forum, Guided democracy, Joko Widodo, Rules-based order, Suharto
June 25, 2019 Special Forum
Truce and Tales in New Malaysia: Happy First Anniversary

The expression “New Malaysia” or Malaysia Baharu emerged in 2016 as a semantic capsule for the democratic aspirations of the movement for electoral reform Bersih (“clean” in Malay), […]

Sophie Lemiere

Truce and Tales in New Malaysia: Happy First Anniversary
June 25, 2019 Special Forum
Myanmar’s Democratic Backsliding in the Struggle for National Identity and Independence

When Myanmar’s ruling military junta transitioned to a nominally civilian government in 2011, observers around the world asked whether one of Asia’s most repressive regimes was finally breaking […]

Jonathan T. Chow

Aung San Suu Kyi, Autonomy, China, citizenship, civil-military relations, democratic transition, ethnic nationalism, human rights, Rohingya, Rule of law
June 20, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: China (June 2019)

In the spring of 2019, Chinese experts assessed China’s relations with the United States and Russia forty years after reform and opening began. They also evaluated China–Japan–South Korea […]

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

Cold War, Diaoyutai/Senkaku, Dokdo /Takeshima, freedom of navigation, South China Sea, trilateralism, US-Japan alliance
June 17, 2019 Open Forum
Washington Insights, Vol. 7, No. 3

Trade overshadows security with human rights and democratization left on the sidelines in DC gatherings in the spring of 2019. The Hanoi summit left US-North Korean ties in […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, 5G, free and open Indo-Pacific, G20, Hanoi summit, Huawei, THAAD, trilateralism, US-Japan alliance
June 4, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (May 2019)

Since the diplomatic collapse in Hanoi, talks between the US and North Korea have remained at an impasse throughout April and May, while President Moon Jae-in kept seeking […]

Kim Kimberly

Hanoi summit, Kaesong Industrial Complex, maximum pressure, Mount Geumgang, Six-Party Talks
May 28, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (June 2019)

In the first half of spring 2019, in the face of a difficult environment for diplomacy with North Korea, Sino-US relations, and ROK-Japanese relations, Abe Shinzo continued to […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, free and open Indo-Pacific, G20, Northern Territories, Putin-Kim summit, Reiwa
May 27, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (May 2019)

In Rossiya v Global’noi Politike Sergei Karaganov continued his charges against the mindset of the majority of international affairs writers in the West and even Russia for their […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Beijing Consensus, BRICS, Pax Sinica, SCO, turn to the East
May 15, 2019 Open Forum
Washington Insights, Vol. 7, No. 2

Exchanges in DC are increasingly torn between a focus on bilateral relations—in particular, US relations with China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan—or on trilateral relations. If the […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, Hanoi summit, Singapore Summit, trilateralism, US-Japan alliance, US-ROK alliance