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November 8, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (November 2013)

Japan and the ROK-US-Japan triangle preoccupied the Korean media through the early autumn. Criticism of the Abe administration only intensified, but it came amid growing concern about whether […]

Editorial Staff

collective defense, forced labor, missile defense, sex slaves, TPP, Trustpolitik, US triangularity, Yasukuni Shrine
November 6, 2013 Open Forum
Synopsis of the Asan Seminar: “Managing ROK-US Relations”

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

Editorial Staff

Chuck Hagel, collective defense, Kurt Campbell, middle power, peace-loving Japan, public opinion, triangularity, Trustpolitik
November 6, 2013 Open Forum
ROK and US Views on the Foreign Policy of the Abe Administration

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

Bong Youngshik*

deference diplomacy, Dokdo /Takeshima, Japan-US alliance, mutual abandonment, Park Geun-hye, rebalancing’s impact, Shinzo Abe, Yasukuni
November 6, 2013 Topics of the Month
The ROK-US Alliance – 5

The US-ROK Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Overcoming the Impasse The United States and Republic of Korea have enjoyed a strong partnership for over 60 years, which has contributed […]

Robert J. Einhorn

123 Civil Nuclear Agreement, enrichment, non-proliferation, Nuclear Technology Transfer Agreement, reprocessing
October 18, 2013 Topics of the Month
The ROK-US Alliance – 4

Progress amidst Problems: Readout of This Month’s ROK-US Annual Security Meeting Thanks to Secretary Chuck Hagel’s important visit to South Korea last week, the ROK-US alliance is on […]

Richard Weitz

Ballistic missile defense, Chuck Hagel, extended deferrence, Kim Kwan-jin, OPCON transfer, preemption, Special Measure Agreement
October 18, 2013 Topics of the Month
The China Dream – 4

This monthly post tracks developments around the “China Dream” since September 17, 2013 and engages Manoranjan Mohanty whose view was summarized in the rejoinder to my previous post. […]

Ming Wan

APEC summit, CCP power, EAS, good-neighborly treaty, Li Keqiang, Mao legacy, purify the society, Shanghai FTA, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Xi Jinping
October 18, 2013 Topics of the Month
Japan-Russia Relations – 4

September and early October have been relatively calm months, but nevertheless, both in international events and in the rejoinders that we have received in this forum, there were […]

Kazuhiko Togo

2+2 Meetings, 70th Anniversary of World War II, no visa system, Putin, Putin’s image in Japan, Russian Foreign Ministry, Shinzo Abe, the China card
October 18, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (October 2013)

As opponents of “collective defense” at home and abroad warned that Japan would start on the same path that led it to war in the twentieth century, Kitaoka […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Iwaki Shigeyuki*)

Ahn Jung-geun, Chinese “new thinking”, debate over China, Park Geun-hye, Sino-Japan comparisons, South Korea=China
October 7, 2013 Open Forum
Introduction to the Open Forum

In this issue of the Open Forum we present the case for China from three points of view. Ren Xiao elaborates on what China’s leaders mean by the […]

Editorial Staff

China’s rise, dichotomy of economics and security, economics vs. geopolitics, historical legacy, idealism scrutinized, militarism, New type of great power relations, US as troublemaker, US mindset
October 7, 2013 Open Forum
“Warring States”—The Coming New World (Dis)order

The Korean Peninsula is the last citadel of a bygone era. Since the end of the Cold War, the United States as the reigning superpower has been the […]

Eric Li

cultural pragmatism, global architecture, historical determinism, ideology, status quo power