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March 18, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2015)

Assessments of the Park administration’s foreign policy Marking the third year of the Park administration, criticism of her foreign policy grew more intense. On March 2, a Chosun […]

Editorial Staff

Asia-Pacific alliance, TPP, Wendy Sherman
March 10, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights: February 2015

Triangularity figured heavily in DC seminars over the first two months of 2015. With the United States and China standing at opposite ends, coverage ranged from ASEAN to […]

Editorial Staff

normal nation, Revisionism, ROK-Japan Relations, TPP
March 2, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (February 2015)

South Korea preoccupied Japanese media more than China, recognized as a threat, North Korea, posing an ever greater threat, and Russia, which was transfixing the media elsewhere. Conservatives […]

Editorial Staff

historical revisionism, Murayama Statement, Yasukuni Shrine
February 27, 2015 Review Article
‘Sengo 70nen hoshu no Ajiakan’ [‘The Asian Views of Conservatives over the Postwar 70 Years’]

Wakamiya Yoshibumi, Sengo 70nen hoshu no Ajiakan, [The Asian Views of Conservatives over the Postwar 70 Years] (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun shuppan, December 25, 2014) In the face of […]

Gilbert Rozman

collective self-defense, conservatism, hereditary leadership, Revisionism, Shinzo Abe, Yasukuni Shrine
February 27, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2015)

An article by Zhong Feiteng in Waijiao pinglun describes China’s new Asian strategy. It observes that Europe has been the geopolitical center and Asia the periphery, and Great […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

ASEAN, Cool Japan, Indo-Pacific strategy, Korean wave, Maritime Silk Road, Peaceful Development, Ukraine
February 16, 2015 Open Forum
Making Sense of the Russo-North Korean Rapprochement

Although the six-party process about North Korean nuclearization is moribund if not dead, ongoing informal discussions among those parties are robust and ever evolving. Because these multi-party relationships […]

Stephen Blank

Ostpolitik, pivot to Asia, rapprochement, Ukraine
February 16, 2015 Open Forum
Beyond Geopolitics: South Korea’s Eurasia Initiative as a New Nordpolitik

Beyond Geopolitics: South Korea’s Eurasia Initiative as a New Nordpolitik 1 On October 18, 2013, at an international conference on Eurasian cooperation in Seoul, Park Geun-hye proposed the […]

Kim Taehwan*

Eurasia Initiative, NAPCI, National security, Nordpolitik, pivot state, Regionalism, trust-building
February 10, 2015 Open Forum
Synopsis of Five-University Collaboration, Dec. 2014

Agenda: Five University Collaboration on East Asia Security Conflict & Cooperation File Download In mid-December, faculty and graduate students at five universities in five countries met again to […]

Editorial Staff

Obama-Xi Summit, Six-Party Talks, TPP, Trustpolitik
February 10, 2015 National Commentaries
A US Perspective

"India-US relations:Developments from the Fall and Winter of 2014 to the 2015 Modi-Obama Summit"   A Successful Summit Revives US-India Strategic Partnership   In the late 1990s, after […]

Daniel Twining

Balancing China, Economic Relations, Indo-US relations, Republic Day parade
February 10, 2015 National Commentaries
A Japanese Perspective

"The India-Japan Special Global Partnership and the United States"   On the Republic Day of India, January 26, 2015, the Embassy of India in Tokyo hosted a national […]

Takenaka Chiharu*

Abenomics, Make in India, Modinomics, Republic Day parade