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April 29, 2016 Special Forum
The Japan-US-Russia Triangle in 2016

The Washington-Tokyo-Moscow triangle has intermittently drawn attention since the 1950s for its potential to shift Japan’s foreign policy and alter the course of great power balancing. Until the […]

Gilbert Rozman

2 + alpha, Abe-Putin courtship, G-7 sanctions, Hikiwake, Northern Territories, Ukraine
April 28, 2016 National Commentaries
A View from Australia

From Indonesia’s perspective, the defense of its territorial waters from incursions and the protection of its natural resources from exploitation are key priorities. China’s aggressive behavior in reclaiming […]

Natalie Sambhi

Global Maritime Fulcrum, Maritime security, Natuna Islands, non-alignment, Pribumi
April 19, 2016 Open Forum
Russia-Southeast Asia Relations: In China’s Shadow?

From May 19-20, the leaders of Southeast Asia nations will convene for the Russia-ASEAN summit at the Black Sea resort of Sochi to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of […]

Vitaly Kozyrev

APEC, EAS, EEU, regional security architecture, Russian Far East
April 15, 2016 Open Forum
The Belt & Road Initiative as Power Resource: Lessons from Japan

In 2013, the Chinese government announced its plans to establish the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and to pursue a massive regional infrastructure plan initially called either the […]

William W. Grimes

"Belt and Road" Initiative, ADB, AIIB, MITI, Transactional power
April 7, 2016 Open Forum
Mongolia’s Place in China’s Periphery Diplomacy

Under President Xi Jinping, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has reprioritized the country’s peripheral relations within its larger foreign policy portfolio. This marks a break with foreign […]

Jeffrey Reeves

Comprehensive strategic partnership, One Belt One Road, peripheral diplomacy, Steppe Road Initiative
March 30, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

Key terms over the past quarter century in strategizing about the Russian Far East include: complementarity, geo-economic competition, modernization, intimidation, and geostrategic competition. Reflecting on them, I revisit […]

Gilbert Rozman

complementarity, Russian Far East
March 25, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2016)

Vladimir Lukin, after explaining shortcomings of the United States, wrote in Rossiia v Global’noi Politike, no. 1, about his conceptions of China and India. He praised Deng Xiaoping […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

EEU, Russian Far East, Silk Road Economic Belt, Sino-US Relations, TPP
March 10, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

Gilbert Rozman has good reason to be skeptical about the Russian Far East (RFE). In my first installment, I advanced a similar argument that the root cause of […]

Artyom Lukin

Sino-Russian Relations
February 23, 2016 Open Forum
US-Japan Relations, 2015-2017

One year has passed since (in The Asan Forum 3, no. 1) I analyzed US-Japan relations during the first two years (December 2012-January 2015) of Abe Shinzo’s second […]

Glen S. Fukushima

Abe Shinzo, Abenomics, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), US Presidential Primaries, US-Japan Joint Vision Statement, US-Japan Relations, US-Japan Security Treaty
February 22, 2016 Open Forum
Honeymoons Gone Awry: Abe-Putin, Putin-Xi, and Park-Xi

The term “honeymoon” has been used for three bilateral relationships in Northeast Asia, and there remains some uncertainty whether it still applies today. It gained popularity following what […]

Gilbert Rozman

Honeymoon