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March 23, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2017)

In the first months of 2017, the cloud of impeachment hung heavily over South Korea’s foreign policy, while China’s anger at the THAAD deployment kept growing, and signs […]

Editorial Staff

Arms Race, ASEAN, comfort women, Eurasia Initiative, impeachment, India, Kaesong Industrial Complex, Kim Jong-nam, missile tests, NAPCI, Park Geun-hye, ROK-US Alliance, strategic patience, THAAD, Trump, Trustpolitik, US-Japan alliance, Vietnam, Xi Jinping
February 28, 2017 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 5, No. 1)

Rarely has there been such a tumultuous period in US foreign policy, reflected in DC discussions of it; many unknown figures were joining a new administration as lines […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, Arms trade, ASEAN, Australia, Central Asia, comfort women, contingency, G8, Georgia, India, Iran, missile tests, nuclear proliferation, One Belt One Road, Putin, Russian Far East, sanctions, SCO, Silk Road Economic Belt, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, Sphere of influence, terrorism, THAAD, trilateralism, Trump, Ukraine, Vietnam, Xi Jinping
February 22, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2017)

In late 2016-early 2017, Chinese analysts examined state-level decision-making on the Korean Peninsula. In the first batch of articles written after the Hague tribunal’s decision, they explored China’s […]

Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

ASEAN, ASEAN Maritime Forum, ASEAN Regional Forum, ASEAN+3, community of common destiny, Duterte, East Asia Summit, energy, G7, Greater Mekong Subregion, Kuril Islands, missile tests, nationalism, Northern Territories, nuclear tests, One Belt One Road, Putin, RCEP, ROK-US Alliance, sanctions, Shinzo Abe, South China Sea, Territorial Disputes, terrorism, THAAD, trilateralism
February 2, 2017 National Commentaries
A Chinese Perspective

Since Donald Trump took office last month, people everywhere have been concerned that US foreign policy could experience far-reaching change; the regional strategic situation in the Asia Pacific […]

Guan Guihai

Abe Shinzo, AIIB, Arms trade, ASEAN, Diaoyu islands, East Asia Summit, East China Sea, freedom of navigation, GSOMIA, military buildup, Obama, One Belt One Road, pivot to Asia, protectionism, RCEP, rebalance to Asia, Scarborough Shoal, Senkaku Islands, South China Sea, Taiwan, THAAD, TPP, trade liberalization, trade wars, Trump, Tsai Ing-wen, US alliances, Xi Jinping
February 2, 2017 National Commentaries
A US Perspective

At the end of the first month of his presidency, how should we anticipate Trump’s post “pivot to Asia” policy toward East Asia? What matters: his personnel picks, […]

Gilbert Rozman

Abe Shinzo, ASEAN, Australia, Denuclearization, East China Sea, freedom of navigation operations, GSOMIA, India, Kim Jong-nam, military buildup, missile defense, missile tests, Obama, pivot to Asia, rebalance, sanctions, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, Taiwan, THAAD, TPP, trilateralism, Trump, Tsai Ing-wen, US alliances, Xi Jinping
February 1, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2017)

Russia appears to be on the precipice of some important change with less optimism than before but more candor about uncertainties. The December Putin-Abe summit left more questions […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Abe Shinzo, ASEAN, Central Asia, comfort women, EAS, energy, Eurasian Economic Union, G7, Greater Eurasia, GSOMIA, India, Kazakhstan, Kuril Islands, Mongolia, Northern Territories, One Belt One Road, Park Geun-hye, Putin, Russian Far East, sanctions, SCO, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea, Taiwan, THAAD, TPP, Trump
February 1, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (January 2017)

Three shocks left Japan’s media groping for answers at the end of 2016 and the start of 2017. The Trump shock kept playing out after the initial alarm […]

Editorial Staff

abductions, Abe Shinzo, anti-globalization, ASEAN, Australia, comfort women, Crimea, Diaoyu islands, energy, GSOMIA, India, Ing-wen, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kuril Islands, Northern Territories, Park Geun-hye, Philippines, Putin, Russian Far East, sanctions, Senkaku Islands, strategic patience, Taiwan, THAAD, TPP, Trans-Siberian Railroad, trilateralism, Trump, Tsai, Ukraine
December 28, 2016 Review Article
NBR’s Strategic Asia Volumes at the End of an Era

Ashley J. Tellis, Abraham M. Denmark, and Greg Chaffin, eds., Strategic Asia 2014-15, US Alliances and Partnerships at the Center of Global Power (Seattle & Washington, DC: The […]

Gilbert Rozman

ASEAN, Australia, burden-sharing, comfort women, Duterte, GSOMIA, India, Indo-Pacific, Indonesia, Maritime Silk Road, Modi, Mongolia, Najib, northern triangle, Philippines, realpolitik, rise of China, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Six-Party Talks. Russian Far East, South China Sea, strategic culture, Taiwan, THAAD, Thailand, trilateralism, Trump administration
December 20, 2016 Open Forum
Synopsis of Washington, DC Meetings on Trump and the Korean Peninsula

A presidential transition in the United States understandably raises concern in allied countries heavily dependent for security and diplomacy. The transition from Obama to Trump is more unsettling […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, Al Qaeda, ASEAN, Balance of power, burden-sharing, comfort women, democratization, Denuclearization, Extended deterrence, GSOMIA, Iran, ISIS, marketization, nuclear proliferation, Putin, sanctions, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, spheres of influence, Taiwan, THAAD, TPP, trilateralism, Trump administration
December 20, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2016)

During the fall of 2016, Chinese experts continued to evaluate Sino-Russian and Sino-US relations. They drew attention to Japan’s “Taiwan faction,” assessed strengthening Japanese-Australian relations, and analyzed South […]

Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

Abe Shinzo, ASEAN, Asia pivot, Australia, Balance of power, BRICS, color revolutions, Diaoyu islands, East China Sea, energy, Eurasian Economic Union, FTAAP, G20, Global Financial Crisis, great power relations, India, Iran nuclear deal, isolationism, middle power diplomacy One Belt One Road, Paris Climate Accord, rebalance, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, Senkaku Islands, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea, Sphere of influence, Taiwan, TPP, Tsai Ing-wen