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July 27, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II: Japan-US-India Security Cooperation Has Progressed “Dramatically”

The Japan-US-India cooperation has progressed dramatically over the last two months (June-July 2016). Three developments, in particular, have highlighted an advance in the trilateral security cooperation. First, defense […]

Nagao Satoru*

Asian Security Summit, Indian Ocean, Malabar maritime exercises, Shangri-La Dialogue, South China Sea, UNCLOS
June 24, 2016 Open Forum
The Pivot vs. the “Progressives”

For more than a decade the two most divisive issues in East Asia have been the gap over how to deal with: 1) the Sino-US relationship and which […]

Gilbert Rozman

Asia for the Asians, China first, G2, hegemonism, Kurt Campbell, Six-Party Talks, Sunshine Policy
May 18, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario I: India’s Approach towards Indo-Pacific Triangularity

The year 2015 witnessed the formation of new strategic triangulations involving India. Frameworks including US-India-Japan and India-Australia-Japan were added to the existing Indian trilateral engagements, including the India-China-Russia […]

Titli Basu

Balance of interest, Geopolitics, SLOC, UNCLOS, US-Japan-India triangle
May 18, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario I: Japan-US-India will be “Natural Allies”

Japan-US-India trilateral security cooperation has been progressing fast. These three countries hold foreign minister level strategic meetings and trilateral naval exercises called Malabar. The increasing US-India arms trade […]

Nagao Satoru*

Chinese assertiveness, Japan-India-Australia Trilateral Dialogue, Malabar, Rim of the Pacific Exercises, US-China military balance
April 28, 2016 National Commentaries
A View from the United States

Inadvertent escalation or Chinese expansion? Two very different fears compete for attention in the proliferating discourse on the risk-rich imbroglio  of the South China Sea. Some fear an […]

Donald K. Emmerson

Nine-dash line, Pax Sinica, South China Sea, sovereignty, UNCLOS
February 23, 2016 Open Forum
US-Japan Relations, 2015-2017

One year has passed since (in The Asan Forum 3, no. 1) I analyzed US-Japan relations during the first two years (December 2012-January 2015) of Abe Shinzo’s second […]

Glen S. Fukushima

Abe Shinzo, Abenomics, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), US Presidential Primaries, US-Japan Joint Vision Statement, US-Japan Relations, US-Japan Security Treaty
February 11, 2016 National Commentaries
A US Perspective

"US-ROK-Japanese Trilateral Security Cooperation"   When President Barack Obama announced his much-touted “rebalance” to Asia in a speech in Australia in November 2011, his administration believed that its […]

Michael Auslin

Democracy, Hub-and-Spokes, National security, Regionalism
December 18, 2015 National Commentaries
The United States POV: Southeast Asian Reactions to the Firmer US Posture in the South China Sea

"The November Summits in Retrospect" Summitry is often seen as a way for national leaders to directly hash out disagreements and reach some accommodation. That was not the […]

Felix K. Chang

National security, Regionalism, South China Sea Initiative
December 7, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 3, No. 6)

Park Geun-hye’s visit to Washington, the aftermath of Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, the state of Japan’s military, Russia’s assertive policy toward Japan, and the state of Central […]

Editorial Staff

Central Asia, East Asian security, National security, Sino-US Relations
October 20, 2015 Open Forum
A Theoretical Explanation of the Evolving Northeast Asian Architecture: The “Incompleteness” of Sovereignty

Current literature on international relations theory is helpful in explaining Northeast Asian regional politics, but falls short. We witness the rising tension between the United States and China […]

Chun Chaesung*

Incomplete Sovereignty, International relations theory, Power-maximizer, US-China rivalry