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March 21, 2014 Special Forum
Introduction to the Special Forum: March

The discourse employed in China to control the narrative on domestic and global issues has long attracted special attention. Confucian tradition placed fundamental importance on the “rectification of […]

Editorial Staff

core values, cultural security, discourse duality, Set expressions
March 7, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2014)

Two themes have been in the forefront in Korean media coverage of international relations in the region: diplomacy related to reunification and ROK-Japan relations. The former was sparked […]

Editorial Staff

Dokdo /Takeshima, Germany, Germany Reunification, reunions, textbooks, two-Korea policy, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights
March 7, 2014 Open Forum
Washington Insights: March 2014

The month of February was marked by a Japanese public relations blitz, to which DC audiences often responded, “where is South Korea in this strategy?” There was also […]

Editorial Staff

Abe's Nationalism, Alliance trilateralism, Balancing China, Japan-ROK relations, Northeast Asia Peace and Security Initiative, Obama's visit to Asia
February 21, 2014 Topics of the Month
TPP – 2

My article in The Asan Forum on TPP has received a number of comments, including T.J. Pempel’s rejoinder and a vigorous debate on the Japan Forum LISTSERV sponsored […]

William W. Grimes

Capital controls, intellectual property rights, rules of origin, Shinzo Abe, structural reform, the Diet, TPP, US Congress
February 21, 2014 Topics of the Month
Japan-South Korea Relations – 2

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

Park Cheol Hee*

Anti-Japaneseism, Balanced diplomacy, Kerry, Park, Shinzo Abe, trilateral cooperation
February 21, 2014 Topics of the Month
Sino-US Relations – 2

United States Pushes Back Against Chinese Assertiveness; Xi Urges Dialogue Carefully sequenced statements by Obama administration officials in late January and February pushed back against Chinese assertiveness in […]

Robert Sutter

ADIZ, domestic concerns, interdependence, Kerry, Medeiros, Philippines, Russel, South China Sea, Southeast Asia, Xi Jinping
February 21, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2014)

In the shadow of the pretense that Sino-US relations were improved by the Xi-Obama summit and are now guided by an understanding to pursue a “new type of […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

China Dream, John Kerry, New type of great power relations, Russia, Russian Far East, Taiwan
February 7, 2014 National Commentaries
The Six-Party Talks and the P5+1: History Repeating Itself?

"Prospects for a North Korean Nuclear Deal" Mark Twain once remarked that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. As Iran consummates the P5+1 Nuclear Agreement, one […]

David Asher

Illicit Activities Initiative, Iran, P5+ 1, Science and Technology Agreement, Six-Party Talks, Syria, Worldwide Threat Assessment
February 7, 2014 Open Forum
Washington Insights: February 2014

US year-end review programs were preoccupied with Syria and Iran with mention of Afghanistan, leaving little or no time for coverage of East Asia. They painted two leaders—Obama […]

Editorial Staff

Illicit Activities Initiative, Iran, P5+ 1, Science and Technology Agreement, Six-Party Talks, Syria, USA, Worldwide Threat Assessment
February 7, 2014 Open Forum
Japan’s Defense Reforms and Korean Perceptions of Japan’s Collective Self-Defense

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

J. Berkshire Miller

constitutional revision, Korean sovereignty, National Defense Program Guidelines, National Security Strategy, summit meeting, Yasukuni Shrine