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February 10, 2015 National Commentaries
An Indian Perspective

"India-US relations:Developments from the Fall and Winter of 2014 to the 2015 Modi-Obama Summit"   Between Symbolism and Substance: An Assessment of Obama’s India Visit   Taking a […]

Rahul Mishra

2+2 Ministerial, BIT, civil nuclear deal, climate change, CliND, defense cooperation, qualitative reinvigoration, Totalization Agreement
February 5, 2015 Special Forum
Abe Shinzo: Japan’s Most Consequential Prime Minister since Yoshida Shigeru

Introduction to Special Forum Abe Shinzo: Japan’s Most Consequential Prime Minister since Yoshida Shigeru   The year 2015 promises to be a milestone in Japan’s transition from a […]

Editorial Staff

Abenomics, comfort women, commemorations, Shinzo Abe, TPP, Yasukuni Shrine
February 5, 2015 Special Forum
Abe Unleashed? Hardly

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and his LDP chalked up a third consecutive election victory and extended their hold on the Diet for two more years with a […]

Brad Glosserman

Abenomics, collective self-defense, Japan-US alliance, nuclear policy, Shinzo Abe, Territorial Disputes
February 5, 2015 Special Forum
Assessing Abe’s Economic Agenda: Abenomics, TPP, and Domestic Politics

It is premature to evaluate the success of Abenomics and TPP, two signature items of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo during his first two years in office, but it […]

Terada Takashi*

Abenomics, FTA, FTAAP, JA Zenchu, Shinzo Abe, TPP
February 5, 2015 Special Forum
The Foreign Policy of Abe Shinzo: Strategic Vision and Policy Implementation

On January 5, 2015, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo reaffirmed that his government will continue to pursue a “proactive contribution to international peace” in his first press conference of […]

James Przystup

ASEAN, collective self-defense, Futenma base, India, Japan-US alliance, ODA, Territorial Disputes
February 5, 2015 Special Forum
US-Japan Relations under Abe Shinzo

When Abe Shinzo became prime minister for a second time, the reaction in Washington was decidedly mixed. In both the Obama administration and the policy/intellectual community of Japan-watchers, […]

Glen S. Fukushima

Abenomics, Futenma base, Japan-US alliance, rebalance, Shinzo Abe, TPP, Yasukuni Shrine
February 5, 2015 Special Forum
Realism vs. Revisionism in Abe’s Foreign Policy in 2014

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

Gilbert Rozman

comfort women, gaiatsu, history war, Revisionism, TPP, Xi-Abe summit, Yasukuni Shrine
January 27, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2015)

Russian publications have had to react to an unexpectedly difficult environment at the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015. Counting on increasing polarization in the Asia-Pacific […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRICS, FTAAP, India, Look East policy, Maritime Silk Road, TPP
December 30, 2014 Open Forum
Washington Insights: December 2014

The November summitry—APEC, the EAS, and the G20 as well as concomitant bilateral, trilateral, and other multilateral meetings—stimulated rethinking about regional relations. In Washington, this took the form […]

Editorial Staff

Asia for the Asians, Bipolarity, hedging against China, triangularity, US rebalancing
December 30, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2014)

The prevailing Chinese narrative is zero-sum, blaming Japan unsparingly and the United States, if in a less vitriolic manner, for regional fragmentation when a path to integration is […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Japanese containment, New Cold War, Sino-ROK alliance, US-ROK alliance