November - December 2024

The Asan Forum > multilateralism

multilateralism

Select the date
November 12, 2024 Special Forum
Southeast Asia and Japan’s New Leadership

On October 1, 2024, Ishiba Shigeru was inaugurated as Japan’s 102th prime minister. He is an experienced politician in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with in-depth knowledge of […]

Koga Kei

ASEAN centrality, Asian NATO, free and open Indo-Pacific, multilateralism, Quad
July 19, 2021 Open Forum
Washington Insights Vol. 9, No. 3

All eyes were on the Biden administration in the first half of 2021. Through the winter it was ramping up through personnel decisions. From mid-March to late May […]

Editorial Staff

hegemony, Joe Biden, Liberal international order, multilateralism, US-China rivalry, Xi Jinping
July 7, 2021 Open Forum
Chinese Views of Hegemony and Multilateralism in the Biden Era

Multilateralism was the driving theme of Xi Jinping’s 2021 World Economic Forum (WEF) speech in January, advancing his message there four years ago supporting economic globalization. Addressing post-pandemic […]

See-Won Byun

hegemony, Liberal international order, multilateralism, US-China rivalry, Xi Jinping
June 30, 2021 Country Reports · Japan
Country Report: Japan (June 2021)

The late spring of 2021 saw Japan solidify its alliance with the United States in a summit between Suga Yoshihide and Joe Biden and in the multilateral G7 […]

Editorial Staff

G7, multilateralism, Summit of Democracies, the Quad, US-China rivalry, Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
January 25, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (January 2016)

The APEC and EAS Summits in November On November 24, Kyunghyang Shinmun carried an article by Shin Ju-baek, regretting that the successes in multilateral diplomacy were hardly noticed […]

Editorial Staff

December "Comfort Women" deal, Five-party cooperation, multilateralism, North Korea nuclear issue, Regionalism
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
August 11, 2014 Open Forum
Southeast Asia’s Developing Divide

The Asan Forum’s introductory Topics of the Month article on the present state of Northeast Asian strategic competition and regionalism by Sergey Radchenko shares much in common with […]

Malcolm Cook

ASEAN rebalancing, developing divide, foreign direct investment, FTAs, maritime-continental divide, multilateralism, Regionalism, Southeast Asia
May 23, 2014 Special Forum
ASEAN-led Multilateralism and Regional Order: The Great Power Bargain Deficit

The post-Cold War East Asian and Asia-Pacific strategic landscape has been dominated by three factors: 1) the United States’ military preponderance underpinned by its hub-and-spokes San Francisco system […]

Evelyn Goh

ASEAN, great power bargain deficit, inclusivity, institution-racing, minimalist norms, multilateralism, regional order, restricted scope, small state voices
January 10, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (January 2014)

Japan was on Korean minds in the final months of 2013, occasionally interrupted by new reasons to recall North Korea’s looming presence. The year ended with less reason […]

Editorial Staff

Jang Song-Thaek, military influence, multilateralism, Park-Abe summit, political stability, Yasukuni Shrine