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February 10, 2015 National Commentaries
An Indian Perspective

"India-US relations:Developments from the Fall and Winter of 2014 to the 2015 Modi-Obama Summit"   Between Symbolism and Substance: An Assessment of Obama’s India Visit   Taking a […]

Rahul Mishra

2+2 Ministerial, BIT, civil nuclear deal, climate change, CliND, defense cooperation, qualitative reinvigoration, Totalization Agreement
February 5, 2015 Special Forum
Abe Unleashed? Hardly

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and his LDP chalked up a third consecutive election victory and extended their hold on the Diet for two more years with a […]

Brad Glosserman

Abenomics, collective self-defense, Japan-US alliance, nuclear policy, Shinzo Abe, Territorial Disputes
February 5, 2015 Special Forum
The Foreign Policy of Abe Shinzo: Strategic Vision and Policy Implementation

On January 5, 2015, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo reaffirmed that his government will continue to pursue a “proactive contribution to international peace” in his first press conference of […]

James Przystup

ASEAN, collective self-defense, Futenma base, India, Japan-US alliance, ODA, Territorial Disputes
February 5, 2015 Special Forum
US-Japan Relations under Abe Shinzo

When Abe Shinzo became prime minister for a second time, the reaction in Washington was decidedly mixed. In both the Obama administration and the policy/intellectual community of Japan-watchers, […]

Glen S. Fukushima

Abenomics, Futenma base, Japan-US alliance, rebalance, Shinzo Abe, TPP, Yasukuni Shrine
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 16, 2015 Topics of the Month
Comparative Southeast Asian Military Modernization – III

Maritime Balance in the South China Sea: Submarines in Southeast Asia In recent years, Southeast Asian countries have pursued the acquisition of submarines with increasing vigor. Currently, four […]

Felix K. Chang

defense community, military cooperation
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 Open Forum
Washington Insights: December 2014

The November summitry—APEC, the EAS, and the G20 as well as concomitant bilateral, trilateral, and other multilateral meetings—stimulated rethinking about regional relations. In Washington, this took the form […]

Editorial Staff

Asia for the Asians, Bipolarity, hedging against China, triangularity, US rebalancing
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 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