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June 22, 2016 Open Forum
China and the Evolving World Order: A Stakeholder or a Revolutionary Power?

China’s rapid rise has raised the question if China is a stakeholder or a dissatisfied revolutionary power to advance its alternative visions. This article argues that although China […]

Suisheng Zhao

AIIB, Bretton Woods, Institution-building, OBOR, Reformist, Revisionist, sovereignty, Tianxia
April 28, 2016 National Commentaries
A View from the United States

Inadvertent escalation or Chinese expansion? Two very different fears compete for attention in the proliferating discourse on the risk-rich imbroglio  of the South China Sea. Some fear an […]

Donald K. Emmerson

Nine-dash line, Pax Sinica, South China Sea, sovereignty, UNCLOS
April 28, 2016 National Commentaries
A View from Indonesia

On March 20, 2016, a Chinese coastguard vessel intruded into Indonesia’s territorial sea near the Natuna Besar Island, the largest island in Indonesia’s Natuna Islands located in the […]

Ristian Atriandi Supriyanto

code of conduct, Illegal fishing, Indonesian-Sino March confrontation, Nine-dash line, sovereignty
August 18, 2015 Open Forum
Russia, China and the Emerging Greater Eurasia

Russia and China drawing together is an unmistakable phenomenon in today’s international relations. Is it a result of deteriorated Russo-US and Sino-US relations or does it have more […]

Alexander Lukin

Economic Relations, International law, National security, Silk Road Economic Belt, sovereignty, Ukraine crisis
December 19, 2014 Open Forum
International Peace in Asia: Will it Endure?

International Peace in Asia: Will it Endure? 1 Post 1945 Asia has been conflict ridden.2 Between 1945 and 2010, there were a total of 71 major wars (in […]

Muthiah Alagappa

Armed peace, deterrence, international legitimacy, sovereignty, trust-building
January 25, 2014 Special Forum
India’s Evolving National Identity Contestation: What Reactions to the “Pivot” Tell Us

Despite the massive transformations that have been underway in India’s economic and strategic realms since 1991, this article argues that the changes predicted by the realist theory of […]

Deepa M. Ollapally

Autonomy, civilizational entitlement, civilizational humiliation, realism, sovereignty, the rebalance
January 25, 2014 Special Forum
A National Identity Approach to Japan’s Late 2013 Foreign Policy Thinking

This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703

Gilbert Rozman

Autonomy, civilizational entitlement, civilizational humiliation, realism, sovereignty, the rebalance
November 22, 2013 National Commentaries
US Perspective

"China and International Law/Norms: A US Perspective" China’s territorial disputes with its maritime neighbors have become the most contentious and high-profile elements in Beijing’s regional foreign policy—so much […]

Jacques deLisle

Diaoyu/Senkaku, East China Sea, EEZ’s, PLA navy, Rebalancing, South China Sea, Southeast Asia, sovereignty, Taiwan, UNCLOS