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December 27, 2021 Special Forum
Introduction

The period 2013-2015 in South Korean foreign policy was transformative for three reasons: (1) it exposed the fallacies in Seoul’s assumptions about the future of Northeast Asia more […]

Editorial Staff

NAPCI, Park Geun-hye, trilateralism, Trustpolitik, US-South Korean Alliance
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 24, 2017 Open Forum
The Limitations of “Global Korea’s” Middle Power

2010 was a pivotal year for the Republic of Korea: as host of the G20 Leaders’ Summit—the first non-G7 and non-Western country to do so—the relatively small country […]

Balbina Y. Hwang

anti-globalization, BRICS, Cold War, G20, G7, impeachment, liberalism internationalism, middle power, Middle Power Diplomacy, MIKTA, NAPCI, nationalism, Nuclear Security Summit 2012, ODA, OECD, Park Geun-hye, peace-keeping operations, Populism, proliferation security initiative, ROK-US Alliance, Seoul G20 Summit, spheres of influence, trade liberalization, Trump
June 10, 2016 Review Article
Russian Authors on the Korean Peninsula and on Japan in Joint Publications

25-ia Godovshchina Ustanovleniia Diplomaticheskikh Otnoshenii mezhdu Respublikoi Koreia i Rossiei: rezul’taty i vyzovy (25th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the Republic of Korea and Russia: […]

Gilbert Rozman

NAPCI, Putin, Resolution 2270, Russo-DPRK relations, Shinzo Abe, Suzuki-Muneo scandal, Trustpolitik
December 7, 2015 Open Forum
South Korea’s Middle Power Multilateral Diplomacy:1 Optimistic and Pessimistic Views

Throughout the second half of 2015, President Park Geun-hye has engaged in active summit diplomacy and tried to play the role of reconciler-in-chief. For instance, she took credit […]

Lee Shin-wha*

MIKTA, NAPCI, National security, Regionalism, Trustpolitik
June 11, 2015 Special Forum
Option 4: Resuming the Six-Party Talks

The Korean Peninsula has been divided for over seventy years, and there is no sign that the division will end any time soon. The ROK and the DPRK […]

Cheng Xiaohe*

NAPCI, Sino-ROK Relations, Six-Party Talks
June 11, 2015 Special Forum
Option 5: Rethinking Middle Power Diplomacy

Since the Cold War, South Korea has never been in a lonelier position as four great powers and North Korea have appeared to bypass it in their “pivots” […]

Gilbert Rozman

Eurasian Initiative, hedging, MIKTA, NAPCI, Trustpolitik, US-Japan-ROK Trilateralism
April 30, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 3, No. 2)

Different options have recently been aired before Washington think tanks for the regional architecture of Asia/the Asia-Pacific/the Indo-Pacific. Comparisons of four of these and the responses to some […]

Editorial Staff

APC, EAS, mililateralism, NAPCI, pivot to Asia, Sinocentrism, sub-regional multilateralism, TPP
April 30, 2015 Open Forum
A Stronger Korea-Mongolia Link in a Changing Northeast Asia

As the constellation of relationships that has dominated Asia for decades begins to evolve towards a new dynamic, the vocabulary of change has begun to foreshadow a very […]

Mark Minton

AIIB, MCA, Mongolia, NAPCI, National security, Regionalism, Ulaanbaatar Initiative
February 16, 2015 Open Forum
Beyond Geopolitics: South Korea’s Eurasia Initiative as a New Nordpolitik

Beyond Geopolitics: South Korea’s Eurasia Initiative as a New Nordpolitik 1 On October 18, 2013, at an international conference on Eurasian cooperation in Seoul, Park Geun-hye proposed the […]

Kim Taehwan*

Eurasia Initiative, NAPCI, National security, Nordpolitik, pivot state, Regionalism, trust-building