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April 30, 2015 Open Forum
Synopsis of the Asan Plenum 2015: Is the U.S. Back?

[Agenda] The overall theme, “Is the U.S. Back?” provided the context for discussing in various panels timely issues concerning international relations in East Asia. Given the stress on […]

Editorial Staff

AIIB, Cyberwar, Russian Pivot to Asia, Sino-US Relations
April 30, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 3, No. 2)

Different options have recently been aired before Washington think tanks for the regional architecture of Asia/the Asia-Pacific/the Indo-Pacific. Comparisons of four of these and the responses to some […]

Editorial Staff

APC, EAS, mililateralism, NAPCI, pivot to Asia, Sinocentrism, sub-regional multilateralism, TPP
April 9, 2015 Special Forum
Four “Middle Power” Pivots to Asia

In this cluster of four articles on pivots to Asia, we expand the range covered in the Special Forum on pivots to Asia posted in the final issue […]

Editorial Staff

Middle Powers, National security, Sino-Russia rebalance, US-China rebalance
April 9, 2015 Special Forum
Europe’s Incomplete Pivot to Asia

We have been talking about the pivot to Asia, and discussing for so long about the US turning its back on Europe. I have always been convinced that […]

Daniel Twining

AIIB, EU, Transatlantic relations, Transpacific relations
March 31, 2015 National Commentaries
A US Perspective

  "Missile Defense on the Korean Peninsula"   From Political Taboo to Strategic Hedge: A US Perspective on Ballistic Missile Defense   Ballistic missile defense (BMD) is both […]

Van Jackson

Asymmetry, ROK-US Alliance, strategic hedge, THAAD
March 18, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2015)

Assessments of the Park administration’s foreign policy Marking the third year of the Park administration, criticism of her foreign policy grew more intense. On March 2, a Chosun […]

Editorial Staff

Asia-Pacific alliance, TPP, Wendy Sherman
February 27, 2015 Review Article
‘Sengo 70nen hoshu no Ajiakan’ [‘The Asian Views of Conservatives over the Postwar 70 Years’]

Wakamiya Yoshibumi, Sengo 70nen hoshu no Ajiakan, [The Asian Views of Conservatives over the Postwar 70 Years] (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun shuppan, December 25, 2014) In the face of […]

Gilbert Rozman

collective self-defense, conservatism, hereditary leadership, Revisionism, Shinzo Abe, Yasukuni Shrine
February 27, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2015)

An article by Zhong Feiteng in Waijiao pinglun describes China’s new Asian strategy. It observes that Europe has been the geopolitical center and Asia the periphery, and Great […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

ASEAN, Cool Japan, Indo-Pacific strategy, Korean wave, Maritime Silk Road, Peaceful Development, Ukraine
February 10, 2015 Open Forum
Synopsis of Five-University Collaboration, Dec. 2014

Agenda: Five University Collaboration on East Asia Security Conflict & Cooperation File Download In mid-December, faculty and graduate students at five universities in five countries met again to […]

Editorial Staff

Obama-Xi Summit, Six-Party Talks, TPP, Trustpolitik
February 10, 2015 National Commentaries
A US Perspective

"India-US relations:Developments from the Fall and Winter of 2014 to the 2015 Modi-Obama Summit"   A Successful Summit Revives US-India Strategic Partnership   In the late 1990s, after […]

Daniel Twining

Balancing China, Economic Relations, Indo-US relations, Republic Day parade