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Please join us for a discussion on what the THAAD dispute tells us about when public diplomacy and soft power does and does not work

By Stephan Haggard A review of Guns, Guerillas and the Great Leader by Benjamin Young (Stanford University Press, 2021) A recent trend in the diplomatic history of the postwar period is to de-center the focus on the major powers and pay more attention to how developing countries forged relations with one another. Reflective of this…

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What Happened During recent talks, the Chinese FM raised the idea of joint dialogue to reach a political resolution between North and South Korea. China also voiced support for South Korea’s goals of peace and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The two foreign ministers discussed holding a future 2+2 meeting with diplomatic and security officials from…

KEI Senior Director Troy Stangarone published an article on the Diplomat Magazine on the effects that the yet-closed Sino-DPRK borders have on the North Korean economy. Notably, the North Korean…

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What Happened On April 1, Seoul and Tokyo met to discuss historical issues, future bilateral meetings, and improving trilateral relations. The meeting came just after Japan’s Ministry of Education approved 30 high school social studies and history textbooks that showed the Dokdo islets as part of Japanese territory. Although South Korea called for the books to be corrected and for the…

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Please join us for a discussion with NATO’s James Mackey on why the alliance is interested in building closer ties with Seoul.