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March 27, 2017 Open Forum
Recent Views in Japan Concerning Sino-Russian Relations

How Japanese officials, media, and academics interpret the state of the relationship between China and Russia matters for Japan’s diplomacy with both countries and its foreign policy more […]

Yoko Hirose

8-point economic cooperation plan, Abe Shinzo, Arms sales, Balance of power, BRICS, energy, G7, India, Kuril Islands, media, NATO, Northern Territories, Putin, sanctions, SCO, Senkaku Islands, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, Territorial Disputes, Trump, Ukraine, US-Japan alliance, Vietnam, Xi Jinping
March 27, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2017)

On February 10, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs carried an Interfax interview with Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov on Russian Asia policies in the past year. He cited […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Abe Shinzo, APEC, ASEAN, Cold War, Denuclearization, Eastern Economic Forum, globalization, Greater Eurasia, India, Kuril Islands, Northern Territories, Pakistan, Park Geun-hye, sanctions, SCO, Silk Road Economic Belt, TPP, Trump, Xi Jinping
March 23, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2017)

In the first months of 2017, the cloud of impeachment hung heavily over South Korea’s foreign policy, while China’s anger at the THAAD deployment kept growing, and signs […]

Editorial Staff

Arms Race, ASEAN, comfort women, Eurasia Initiative, impeachment, India, Kaesong Industrial Complex, Kim Jong-nam, missile tests, NAPCI, Park Geun-hye, ROK-US Alliance, strategic patience, THAAD, Trump, Trustpolitik, US-Japan alliance, Vietnam, Xi Jinping
February 28, 2017 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 5, No. 1)

Rarely has there been such a tumultuous period in US foreign policy, reflected in DC discussions of it; many unknown figures were joining a new administration as lines […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, Arms trade, ASEAN, Australia, Central Asia, comfort women, contingency, G8, Georgia, India, Iran, missile tests, nuclear proliferation, One Belt One Road, Putin, Russian Far East, sanctions, SCO, Silk Road Economic Belt, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, Sphere of influence, terrorism, THAAD, trilateralism, Trump, Ukraine, Vietnam, Xi Jinping
February 24, 2017 Open Forum
The Limitations of “Global Korea’s” Middle Power

2010 was a pivotal year for the Republic of Korea: as host of the G20 Leaders’ Summit—the first non-G7 and non-Western country to do so—the relatively small country […]

Balbina Y. Hwang

anti-globalization, BRICS, Cold War, G20, G7, impeachment, liberalism internationalism, middle power, Middle Power Diplomacy, MIKTA, NAPCI, nationalism, Nuclear Security Summit 2012, ODA, OECD, Park Geun-hye, peace-keeping operations, Populism, proliferation security initiative, ROK-US Alliance, Seoul G20 Summit, spheres of influence, trade liberalization, Trump
February 22, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2017)

In late 2016-early 2017, Chinese analysts examined state-level decision-making on the Korean Peninsula. In the first batch of articles written after the Hague tribunal’s decision, they explored China’s […]

Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

ASEAN, ASEAN Maritime Forum, ASEAN Regional Forum, ASEAN+3, community of common destiny, Duterte, East Asia Summit, energy, G7, Greater Mekong Subregion, Kuril Islands, missile tests, nationalism, Northern Territories, nuclear tests, One Belt One Road, Putin, RCEP, ROK-US Alliance, sanctions, Shinzo Abe, South China Sea, Territorial Disputes, terrorism, THAAD, trilateralism
February 22, 2017 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

Two months following the passage by the ROK National Assembly of a motion of impeachment against Park Geun-hye, power remains in the hands of Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn, […]

Scott Snyder

Abe Shinzo, anti-globalization, Ban Ki-moon, comfort women, Constitutional Court, Hwang Kyo-ahn, impeachment, missile tests, nationalism, Park Geun-hye, THAAD, Trump, Yasukuni Shrine
February 22, 2017 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

The Constitutional Court of South Korea has until June to rule for or against the impeachment decision made by the National Assembly last December. As a majority of […]

Kim Jaechun*

4th nuclear test, Abe Shinzo, Ban Ki-moon, burden-sharing, comfort women, Constitutional Court, Dokdo, elections, GSOMIA, impeachment, Kaesong Industrial Complex, Kim Jong-nam, missile tests, Park Geun-hye, ROK-US Alliance, sanctions, THAAD, Trump
February 10, 2017 Open Forum
Xinjiang and the Trans-nationalization of Uyghur Terrorism: Cracks in the “New Silk Road”?

President Xi Jinping’s ambitious “One Belt, One Road” strategy has magnified Chinese concern for the security of its long restive northwestern province, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). […]

Michael Clarke

9/11, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Central Asia, counterterrorism, critical theory, East Turkestan Islamic Movement, energy, globalization, Iraq, ISIS, mujahideen, NATO, One Belt One Road, Pakistan, realism, SCO, securitization, separatism, Silk Road Economic Belt, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, Turkestan Islamic Party, Turkey, Uyghur, war on terror, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang
February 9, 2017 Special Forum
Introduction

With a new US administration under Donald Trump tempted to use military power in ways still hard to predict, it is timely to review the major military challenges […]

Editorial Staff

A2/AD, Arms trade, Diaoyu islands, East China Sea, India, Korean reunification, military buildup, missile defense system, Nuclear deterrence, sanctions, Senkaku Islands, South China Sea, Taiwan, THAAD, trilateralism, Trump