Ethnic Brothers or Migrants: North Korean Defectors in South Korea
Over the past sixty years, the two Koreas have embarked on completely different paths in almost every respect. One developed into a successful example of…
Family, Mobile Phones, and Money: Contemporary Practices of Unification on the Korean Peninsula
Moving from the powerful and abstract construct of ethnic homogeneity as bearing the promise for unification, this chapter instead considers family unity, facilitated by the…
Introduction | National Identities and the Future of North Korea
North Korea is a country easy to approach emotionally. For anyone with even a little twinge of conscience toward human rights, it evokes disgust. For…
Korea Between the United States and China: How Does Hedging Work?
“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies.” The words of the 19thcentury British statesman Lord Palmerstone seem to resonate in 21st-century…
Australia and U.S.-China Relations: Bandwagoned and Unbalancing
Since Kevin Rudd and the Australian Labor Party ended Prime Minister John Howard’s 11 1/2 years in office in late 2007, each new government in…
India’s Heavy Hedge Against China, and its New Look to the United States to Help
China and India together account for one-third of humanity. Both were advanced civilizations when Europe was in the Dark Ages. Until the 19th century, they…
Variations on a (Hedging) Theme: Comparing ASEAN Core States’ Alignment Behavior
This chapter compares the foreign policy responses of three “core” ASEAN states—Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore—vis-à-vis an assertive China and a rebalancing America.1 The weaker states…
Introduction | Light or Heavy Hedging: Positioning Between China and the United States
The four papers in Section 1 compare hedging behavior in countries on the frontline between the rising power China and the reigning hegemon, the United…