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October 15, 2014 Open Forum
Can Indonesia Fulfill Its Aspirations to Regional Leadership?

There is much talk today about Indonesia’s rise and aspirations to regional leadership as a middle power. Supporters of this proposition often cite a raft of facts and […]

Liow Joseph Chinyong*

ASEAN Security Community, Bali Democracy Forum, Cambodia, Indo-Pacific Treaty, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, regional leadership, Singapore, Thailand, Treaty of Amity and Cooperation, Vietnam, Widodo
October 15, 2014 Open Forum
Malaysia-China Relations after MH370: Policy Change or Business as Usual?

Malaysia and China have seen one of the most cordial and productive relationships in the Asia-Pacific throughout the post-Cold War era, one with implications beyond their bilateral ties. […]

Kuik Cheng-Chwee*

ASEAN, flight MH370, hedging, Malaysia, Philippines, PLA navy, South China Sea, threat perceptions, tourism, Trade, USA, Vietnam
October 15, 2014 Open Forum
Synopsis of the Asan Institute-Pacific Forum CSIS Conference on US-Japan-ROK Trilateral Relations

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

J. Berkshire Miller

contingency planning, cornerstone and linchpin, energy security, Japanese Abductees, Park-Xi Summit, public opinion, threat perceptions
October 15, 2014 Open Forum
Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat (TCS) of China, Japan and the ROK

A new impetus for regional cooperation arose at the third Korea-Japan-China trilateral summit held on May 30, 2010 on Jeju Island. Upon agreement among the three heads of […]

Shin Bong-kil*

ASEAN, ASEAN+3, Northeast Asian economic region, regional cooperation organization, Secretariat, trust
October 1, 2014 Topics of the Month
Comparative Southeast Asian Military Modernization – 1

Southeast Asia’s military modernization over the last half decade has been impressive. Defense expenditures across the region have risen, on average, by nine percent each year since 2009, […]

Felix K. Chang

Arms sales, code of conduct, defense expenditures, Indonesia, long-term commitment, Malaysia, maritime interests, Philippines, territorial ambitions, Vietnam
September 29, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (September 2014)

While the world’s gaze centered on Russia’s relations with the West and the on-again, off-again confrontation over Ukraine, Russian publications paraded a new, more assertive outlook on Russia’s […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRICS, Central Asia, dead hikiwake, India, liberal secularism, New Cold War, turn to the East, Ukraine
September 29, 2014 Topics of the Month
Civilizational Divides and Regional Confrontations – 1

To start this exchange, Gilbert Rozman wrote a meditative piece on the dangers of civilizational “pull” for Japan and France were they to respond with some complacency toward […]

François Godement

civilizational debates, cultural inward-thinking, France, Putinism, Sino-Russian quasi-alliance, strategic gambles, Ukraine
September 29, 2014 National Commentaries
A South Korean Perspective

"Reassessing the Park-Xi Summit"   In recent months, pundits in Washington and Tokyo talk or insinuate quite a bit about the so-called “Seoul-in-the-China-orbit” thesis. From this author’s perspective, […]

Chung Jae Ho*

EEZ, missile defense, national interests. strategic suspicion, overblown expectations, TPP, track 1.5 meeting
September 29, 2014 National Commentaries
A US Perspective

"Reassessing the Park-Xi Summit"   The growing ties between China and the Republic of Korea are among the most consequential changes in East Asian politics, economics, and security […]

Jonathan D. Pollack

comprehensive upgrading of relations, Economic Relations, FTA, hot in economy and warm in politics, major middle power, mutual respect, National security, trade dependency, US
September 29, 2014 National Commentaries
A Japanese Perspective

"Reassessing the Park-Xi Summit"   For understandable reasons, the Japanese paid rapt attention to the July 2014 Seoul summit between China and South Korea. Perhaps, the most compelling […]

Kimura Kan*

China, collective self-defense, Japan, joint ceremony of remembrance, missile defense, National identity, National security, public opinion, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Territorial and historical consciousness questions, US