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October 12, 2015 National Commentaries
The South Korean Perspective

"The Challenge for Park’s Summit with Obama after Abe’s Summit."   As President Park Geun-hye prepares for her meeting with President Barack Obama on October 16, her visit […]

Lee Chung Min*

China's military parade, Japan-US alliance, Japanese SDF, National security, North Korea, Sino-ROK Relations
October 12, 2015 National Commentaries
The Japanese Perspective

"The Challenge for Park’s Summit with Obama after Abe’s Summit."   The most important factor we need to consider in directing our attention in East Asia to developments […]

Kazuhiko Togo

Article 9, CJK summit, National security, normal state, US security
October 12, 2015 National Commentaries
The US Perspective

"The Challenge for Park’s Summit with Obama after Abe’s Summit."   Positive US responses to Abe’s defense and history initiatives leave South Korea’s Japan policy in limbo. The […]

Larry A. Niksch

Balancing China, Japan-US alliance, Japanese SDF, National security
August 18, 2015 Open Forum
Striking the Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement: The Case of Intellectual Property in the Trans-Pacific Partnership and US-Northeast Asian Economic Relations

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations are reaching their final stage. There is a good chance that they will be concluded within a month or two. While this economic pact […]

June Park

Economic Relations, Intellectual property, Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement, Trans-Pacific Partnership
August 13, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 3, No. 4)

The Cold War era is looking different from before in hindsight of the 2010s. The key breakthroughs in bilateral relations now seem less transformative, even to a degree […]

Editorial Staff

Abe-Obama summit, Japan-US relations, Regionalism, Sino-ROK Relations, unification
August 3, 2015 National Commentaries
An American Commentary

"The Iran Nuclear Deal and the North Korean Nuclear Issue"   The international nuclear agreement with Iran has generated some speculation about the potential for resurrecting similar negotiations […]

Bruce Klingner

National security, Six-Party Talks, Snap-back clause, Sony hacking
June 22, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 3, No. 3)

In the shadow of the Abe and Park visits to Washington and Putin and Xi’s first joint observance of the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War […]

Editorial Staff

ASEAN, Eurasianism, ROK-Japanese relations, trilateralism
June 18, 2015 Review Article
‘The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States’

  Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder, The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015). As we approach […]

Sharon Yoon

historical revisionism, reconciliation, Shinzo Abe
June 17, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

Randall Schriver’s essay “US-China Military-to-Military Relations in 2015: The Negative Indicators” sets a high bar for assessing the question of US-China mil-mil relations in 2015. He correctly notes […]

Scott W. Harold

May 15, 2015 National Commentaries
A US Perspective

  "Reading Abe’s Washington Visit"   A View from Washington   Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s visit to Washington produced major developments in Japan-US relations, particularly security relations. A […]

Larry A. Niksch

historical revisionism, Korea Fatigue, normal nation, trilateral cooperation