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May 30, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (May 2018)

In the spring of 2018, Russians reacted to the drama over North Korea as they questioned their country’s place in Northeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific region. Two figures […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI, BRICS, free and open Indo-Pacific, Quad, SCO, Xi-Kim summit, Xi-Modi summit
December 8, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (November 2017)

Russian publications through the first half of the fall of 2017 were largely optimistic, assuming the decline of the United States, the reliability of China as a partner, […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

APEC, BRI, Eastern Economic Forum, Great Eurasian Partnership, SCO, turn to the East
September 29, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (September 2017)

The summer in Russia saw claims of optimism about Sino-Russian relations without much substance and amid some talk of having to move beyond megaprojects, which appear no longer […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRICS, Eurasianism, G20, Moscow-Kazan, Power of Siberia, SCO, Silk Road, SREB
August 21, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (July 2017)

The divide over Russia’s Asian policies came into the open and sharpened as hopes for Trump changing US policy have been dashed and Putin’s prominent role at the […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Eurasian Economic Union, Greater Eurasia, OBOR, SCO, Silk Road Economic Belt, THAAD, turn to the East
June 2, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (May 2017)

Coverage of Russia in East Asia concentrated on the Belt and Road Initiative forum in mid-May with some attention given to the Korean Peninsula, as a new president […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

ASEAN, BRI Forum, BRIC, EEU, OBOR, Russian Far East, SCO, SREB
March 27, 2017 Open Forum
Recent Views in Japan Concerning Sino-Russian Relations

How Japanese officials, media, and academics interpret the state of the relationship between China and Russia matters for Japan’s diplomacy with both countries and its foreign policy more […]

Yoko Hirose

8-point economic cooperation plan, Abe Shinzo, Arms sales, Balance of power, BRICS, energy, G7, India, Kuril Islands, media, NATO, Northern Territories, Putin, sanctions, SCO, Senkaku Islands, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, Territorial Disputes, Trump, Ukraine, US-Japan alliance, Vietnam, Xi Jinping
March 27, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2017)

On February 10, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs carried an Interfax interview with Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov on Russian Asia policies in the past year. He cited […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Abe Shinzo, APEC, ASEAN, Cold War, Denuclearization, Eastern Economic Forum, globalization, Greater Eurasia, India, Kuril Islands, Northern Territories, Pakistan, Park Geun-hye, sanctions, SCO, Silk Road Economic Belt, TPP, Trump, 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 10, 2017 Open Forum
Xinjiang and the Trans-nationalization of Uyghur Terrorism: Cracks in the “New Silk Road”?

President Xi Jinping’s ambitious “One Belt, One Road” strategy has magnified Chinese concern for the security of its long restive northwestern province, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). […]

Michael Clarke

9/11, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Central Asia, counterterrorism, critical theory, East Turkestan Islamic Movement, energy, globalization, Iraq, ISIS, mujahideen, NATO, One Belt One Road, Pakistan, realism, SCO, securitization, separatism, Silk Road Economic Belt, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, Turkestan Islamic Party, Turkey, Uyghur, war on terror, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang
February 9, 2017 Special Forum
Russia-China Defense Cooperation: New Developments

Sino-Russian defense cooperation has intensified significantly, especially after the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, making an update of what I wrote in this journal barely a year ago […]

Paul Schwartz

Arms trade, Diaoyu islands, East China Sea, International Army Games, Joint Sea naval exercise, Lada-class submarines, MIRV, missile defense system, Peace Mission, Putin, RD-180 rocket engines, S-400, SCO, Senkaku Islands, South China Sea, Su-35, Taiwan, THAAD, Trump, Tsai Ing-wen, Ukraine, Xi Jinping