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February 12, 2016 National Commentaries
A South Korean Perspective

"US-ROK-Japanese Trilateral Security Cooperation"   Despite the practical necessity of trilateral security cooperation among the United States, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and Japan, conditioned by changes in […]

Choi Kang*

comfort women, Regional commons, Regionalism, unification
February 11, 2016 National Commentaries
A Japanese Perspective

"US-ROK-Japanese Trilateral Security Cooperation"   In the mid-1990s, when Japan and the United States redefined their alliance and revised the “Guidelines for Defense Cooperation between the United States […]

Yamaguchi Noboru*

Regionalism, Track 2 talks, US deterrence
February 11, 2016 National Commentaries
A US Perspective

"US-ROK-Japanese Trilateral Security Cooperation"   When President Barack Obama announced his much-touted “rebalance” to Asia in a speech in Australia in November 2011, his administration believed that its […]

Michael Auslin

Democracy, Hub-and-Spokes, National security, Regionalism
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
January 25, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2016)

The message in Russian media of late 2015 was pessimism about economic ties to China, but reluctance to blame the Chinese. Little is said about Russia’s relations in […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Chinese diaspora, Geopolitics, National identity, Regionalism, Yellow Peril
December 23, 2015 Special Forum
Introduction to the Special Forum

A lot has happened in Sino-Russian relations in 2014-2015, but some observers still are pondering whether this is a serious, alliance-like relationship with far-reaching impact on the Asia-Pacific […]

Editorial Staff

National security, North Korea, Regionalism, SCO
December 23, 2015 Special Forum
Mongolia Hangs in the Balance: Political Choices and Economic Realities

Year 2015 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Mongolia’s democratic revolution. Ever since it escaped the protective embrace of its northern neighbor, Mongolia maintained an astute foreign policy, pursuing […]

Sergey Radchenko

Economic Relations, Good Neighbor policy, Khalkin Gol Battle of 1939, Neutrality, Regionalism, third neighbor policy
December 23, 2015 Special Forum
Russia, China, and Central Asia: Time for Decision

When the Soviet Union disintegrated, one might have expected Central Asia to become a natural region of rivalry between Moscow, which could no longer exercise formal political control […]

Richard Weitz

Arab Spring, EEU, Regionalism, Silk Road Economic Belt, Uighur militancy
December 18, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario for Modi’s India “Acts East” Take Two: What Should It Be?

Without getting into a quibble with Mr. Twinning’s analysis, parts of which I respectfully disagree with, allow me to use this opportunity to rather take a long view […]

Manish Tewari

Indian exceptionalism, Indo-Japan relations, National security, Neighborhood diplomacy, Regionalism
December 18, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2015)

No indications were found in Chinese publications of realist thinking about how to resolve security challenges such as the threatening North Korean military build-up or the increasingly confrontational […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Asian values, CJK summit, East Asian Community, Economic Relations, One Belt One Road, One Road", Regionalism