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November 9, 2014 Topics of the Month
Civilizational Divides and Regional Confrontations – 3

Both Gilbert Rozman and Francois Godement’s articles are stimulating and instructive, and it is a pleasure for me to follow up the debate. Issues raised by Rozman are […]

Kazuhiko Togo

deterrence, dialogue, Japanese identity, Japanese-Europe dialogue, Russian identity, Ukraine civilization
October 29, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (October 2014)

Ukraine (Russia), South Korea, India and, as usual, Japan attracted keen attention for their potential to alter the geopolitical environment in Asia. Ukraine’s significance is its impact on […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Civilizations, hegemonism, India, Look East policy, New Cold War, new defense guidelines, Ukraine, US-ROK alliance
October 29, 2014 Review Article
Civilizational Polarization and Japan

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

Gilbert Rozman

Civilizations, comfort women, Constitutionalism, Hong Kong, polarization, right of collective self-defense, secrecy law, Ukraine
October 21, 2014 Topics of the Month
Japanese Politics Concerning Collective Self-Defense – 3

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

Hosoya Yuichi*

October 21, 2014 Special Forum
Japan’s Foreign Policy toward Northeast Asia as Seen in Chinese Publications

In the past few years, China and Japan have been experiencing serial difficulties in their relations, beyond anything seen since normalization in 1972. Chinese writings on Japan’s foreign […]

Cheng Xiaohe*

October 20, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (October 2014)

Hopes for Japanese diplomacy had grown faint in the late summer of 2014. Russian relations had stalled, as Russia flexed its muscles with rare military exercises on the […]

Editorial Staff

ASEAN Asian dream, comfort women, Eurasian diplomacy, Japanese Abductees, Northern Territories, Putin’s visit, sanctions, Thailand, Ukraine, US pressure
October 17, 2014 Special Forum
Sino-Japanese Competition and Its Multilateral Implications

While eyes are fixed on the Sino-US competition in East Asia, there is also a competition for influence between China and Japan. In the decade of the 2000s, […]

Editorial Staff

demonization, India, multilateralism, Southeast Asia, Territorial Disputes, triangular relations, Vietnam
October 17, 2014 Special Forum
Vietnam Among the Powers: Struggle & Cooperation

  *The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and are not presented as those of the Congressional Research Service or the Library of Congress. […]

Mark Manyin

Arms sales, ASEAN, collective self-defense, communist party, equidistance, great power rivalry, oil rig, South China Sea, the Philippines, tourism, Vietnam
October 17, 2014 Special Forum
Japan’s Approach to Southeast Asia in the Context of Sino-Japanese Relations

At times, since 2000, interest has piqued in Sino-Japanese competition—over Russia (rival proposals for an oil pipeline in the early 2000s), South Korea (maneuvering within ASEAN+3 and in […]

Gilbert Rozman

Asian values, Asianism, Australia, East Asian Community, Fukuda Doctrine, India, Rebalancing, Regionalism, Revisionism, South China Sea, Southeast Asia
October 15, 2014 Open Forum
Washington Insights, October 2014

The Obama visit to East Asia in April marked a transition from one set of discussions in Washington, DC to another. Instead of agonizing about Japan-ROK relations, there […]

Editorial Staff

ASEAN centrality, India, Indo-Pacific region, North Korean outreach, Park-Xi Summit, peaceful unification, Southeast Asia