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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 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
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 Shinzo: Japan’s Most Consequential Prime Minister since Yoshida Shigeru

Introduction to Special Forum Abe Shinzo: Japan’s Most Consequential Prime Minister since Yoshida Shigeru   The year 2015 promises to be a milestone in Japan’s transition from a […]

Editorial Staff

Abenomics, comfort women, commemorations, Shinzo Abe, TPP, Yasukuni Shrine
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
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