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February 5, 2015 Special Forum
Realism vs. Revisionism in Abe’s Foreign Policy in 2014

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

Gilbert Rozman

comfort women, gaiatsu, history war, Revisionism, TPP, Xi-Abe summit, Yasukuni Shrine
January 27, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2015)

Russian publications have had to react to an unexpectedly difficult environment at the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015. Counting on increasing polarization in the Asia-Pacific […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRICS, FTAAP, India, Look East policy, Maritime Silk Road, TPP
January 12, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (January 2015)

Deepening confrontation between China-North Korea-Russia on one side and South Korea-the United States-Japan on the other was the center of discussion over the last two months. As the […]

Editorial Staff

Eurasia Initiative, human rights, Korean reunification, Revisionism, sanctions, Yasukuni Shrine
December 30, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2014)

The prevailing Chinese narrative is zero-sum, blaming Japan unsparingly and the United States, if in a less vitriolic manner, for regional fragmentation when a path to integration is […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Japanese containment, New Cold War, Sino-ROK alliance, US-ROK alliance
December 19, 2014 Review Article
‘The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia’

Saadia Pekkanen, John Ravenhill and Rosemary Foot, eds., Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) Broad implications of the emergence of a […]

Steven Denney

Asia Paradox, economic hub, regional bifurcation
December 19, 2014 Open Forum
China and India: Coping with Growing Asymmetry

It is not just the GDP figure of China that has expanded to become nearly four times that of India’s; the components that constitute it reflect a picture […]

Swaran Singh

Asymmetry, India
December 15, 2014 Open Forum
Looking Eastward to China: Beijing’s Central Asian Diplomacy and its Implications for China’s New Silk Road Initiatives

During a meeting with the presidents of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Pakistan on November 8, 2014, President Xi Jinping announced that China was contributing 40 billion […]

Hasan H. Karrar

Bazaar, Central Asia, economic connectivity, informal economy, Maritime Silk Road, Silk Road Economic Belt
December 11, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (December 2014)

As Abe stumbled in the fall of 2014, his defenders grew more aggressive. Initiatives to Russia, North Korea, and China faced one sort of problem or another. Even […]

Editorial Staff

AIIB, history issues, Japanese Abductees, normal state, Ukraine
December 1, 2014 Special Forum
China’s Eurasian Pivot

Since President Xi Jinping came into office, China has been actively pivoting to the vast expanses of Eurasia, particularly reflected in the strengthening of Beijing’s engagement with its […]

Zhang Xiaotong*

AIIB, Eurasian Economic Union, Marching Westwards, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Silk Road Economic Belt
December 1, 2014 Special Forum
China’s Views and Responses to Multilateral Talks in Pacific Asia

In November 2014, at the 25th APEC summit in Beijing, President Xi Jinping announced the USD 40 billion Silk Road Infrastructure Fund, raising awareness of China’s new regional […]

Min Ye

ASEAN centrality, New Silk Road Strategy, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, Trans-Pacific Partnership, US rebalance