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September 17, 2013 Review Article
Making Headway on the “Economic-Security Nexus”: Contributions from Southeast Asia

What is the relationship between economic growth, interdependence, and competition on the one hand, and geopolitical security and stability on the other? Do international trade, production, and investment […]

Evelyn Goh

ASEAN, Conflict Management, Economic Interdependence, Regime Insecurity, Vulnerability
September 16, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (September 2013)

Russia’s thirst for multipolarity on terms that would not require reconsideration of its assumptions about countries active in East Asia was on vivid display through the summer. Hopes […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

ASEAN, China alliance, Cold war school, Collective system of security, Evgenyi Bazhanov, Gleb Ivashentsov, Multipolarity, Putin
September 16, 2013 Open Forum
Asan Washington Forum Synopsis Part 2: The Alliance and North Korea

In this second and final part of the synopsis of the June 24-25 discussion, we focus on the triangle with North Korea. This summation may be read in […]

Editorial Staff

Denuclearization, Optimists, Park Geun-hye, Pessimists, ROK-US Alliance, Trustpolitik
September 13, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (September 2013)

In a speech delivered on the sixty-eighth anniversary of Liberation Day, Park Geun-hye said, “Japanese politicians need to show courageous leadership to heal wounds from the past to […]

Editorial Staff

dependency on China, inter-Korean trust process, Merkel, mutual abandonment, Park Geun-hye, Shinzo Abe, Xi Jinping, Yasukuni Shrine
September 1, 2013 National Commentaries
South Korean Perspective

Deterrence, NPT and the Two Koreas A South Korean View on Further Cuts in Nuclear Weapons In April 2009, during his visit to Prague, President Obama announced his […]

Choi Kang*

Barack Obama, Berlin speech, Extended deterrence, Non-proliferation treaty, Nuclear weapons
September 1, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (September 2013)

Coverage of Abe Shinzo in the Japanese media has centered on three familiar themes and on one that has gone mostly unnoticed abroad. The July 21 Upper House […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Iwaki Shigeyuki*)

Apology diplomacy, Chinese power struggle, PLA, virtuous history, Xi Jinping
August 27, 2013 Topics of the Month
The ROK-US Alliance – 2

ROK-US Alliance Rescheduling the War-time OPCON Transition From a Time-driven Approach to a Situation-driven Approach ROK and US defense authorities recently held the 4th ROK-US Integrated Defense Dialogue […]

Koo Bon-hak*

combined forces command, deterrence, ROK-US Alliance, WMD threat, WOPCON
August 2, 2013 Open Forum
Retrospect and Prospect of the ROK-US Alliance at 60 and Beyond

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

Choi Kang*

China, North Korea, Northeast Asia, OPCON, ROK-US Alliance, Security Architecture, SMA
July 19, 2013 Special Forum
A New Cold War? Introduction to the July Special Forum

With this first issue of The Asan Forum, we post our first Special Forum, five articles that address different aspects of a single overarching theme on Asian international […]

Editorial Staff

infographics, New Cold War
July 19, 2013 National Commentaries
Chinese Perspective

"New Model of Great Power Relations" How is a “New Model of Great Power Relations” Possible? The two decades following the end of the Cold War witnessed continuous […]

Wang Jisi*

East Asia Security Architecture, East Asian Community, New Model of Great Power Relations, TPP, Xi-Obama Summit