National Identity and Attitudes Toward North Korean Defectors
South Korea has traditionally valued ethnic homogeneity. While that mentality remains, the emergence of a demographic shift is challenging the way South Koreans view national…
Bridging the Chinese National Identity Gap: Alternative Identities in Hong Kong and Taiwan
After more than one hundred years of colonial rule, China regained sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 and is now seeking the eventual return of…
Identity and Strategy in India’s Asia-Pacific Policy
The major international structural changes over the last 25 years—the end of the Cold War and rapid ascent of China—have direct impact on India’s national…
Asia-Pacific Regional Economic Integration: U.S. Strategy and Approach
America’s economic engagement in the Asia-Pacific predates the republic itself. In February 1784, the merchant ship Empress of China set sail from New York to…
Japan and Regional Integration Dominoes: Golden Opportunity or Another Political Failure?
The re-election of Abe Shinzo as prime minister has led to a drastic change in the economic landscape of Japan through the implementation of “Abenomics.”…
Korean Bridge: Balancing Asian Economic Regionalism Between the United States and China
The debate on TPP versus RCEP has been widely recognized as a struggle between the United States and China for expanding their influence in the…
China’s Choice: To Lead or to Follow on Asian Economic Integration
For many years, the major trading countries coexisted comfortably under a multilateral trading system. Major trade liberalizations were agreed upon multilaterally. In most cases, trade…
South Korea’s Search for a New Diplomatic Strategy Toward North Korea: Trustpolitik as a Goldilocks Approach?
With the North Korean nuclear threat still lingering, the international community’s decadeslong effort to bring about peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was in vain….
What to Do about North Korea
North Korea is the world’s most troublesome country, brutal at home and a bully abroad. In 2013 it became even more dangerous, both to its…
Purge of Jang Song-Taek and its Impact on China’s Policy Toward North Korea
On December 12 Jang Song-taek, largely considered the second most powerful man in North Korea and a well-known “China hand,” was executed for treason and…