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June 18, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (June 2014)

Regional Dynamics, the US Pivot, and Maritime Security Shi Jiazhu and Yu Lingling in Guoji guancha, No. 2, 2014 explain the US strategy in shifting the center of […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Central Asia, China’s maritime strategy, Japan-North Korea ties, Japanese militarism, peripheral diplomacy, Southeast Asia, strengthening the SCO, US offensive strategy
May 23, 2014 Topics of the Month
Multilateralism in Northeast Asia – 1

In Northeast Asia the search for multilateralism has taken an abrupt turn. In the 2000s the Six-Party Talks gave hope that North Korea would bring five other states […]

Sergey Radchenko

Central Asia, civilizational debates, comrades, natural resource appendage, polarization, Sino-Soviet rapprochement, strategic allies, Ukraine
April 30, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (April 2014)

Chinese writings in the past two months reveal a somewhat restrained, but dark, tone about regional security dynamics, especially with regard to China-Japan and China-US relations. The nationalistic […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Central Asia, China-US-ROK triangle, Economic Interdependence, Japan-Taiwan relations, Japan's defense strategy, Korean Peninsula, new type of major power relations, Regional security framework, Taiwan, Ukraine, US threat to DPRK, Vietnam
July 19, 2013 Special Forum
Cold War in Asia? China, Russia, and Asian Security

Although the Cold War ended by 1991, commentators, experts, and others repeatedly invoke this metaphor at any sign of great power tension. 1 Since the United States and […]

Stephen Blank

Arms Race, Central Asia, Cold War, India, New Cold War, Sino-Russian Relations, Southeast Asia