Feb 29, 2016

Introduction | National Identities and the Future of North Korea

By Gilbert Rozman

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...

Feb 26, 2016

Korea Between the United States and China: How Does Hedging Work?

By Park Jin

“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...

Feb 26, 2016

Australia and U.S.-China Relations: Bandwagoned and Unbalancing

By Malcolm Cook

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...

Feb 26, 2016

India’s Heavy Hedge Against China, and its New Look to the United States to Help

By Daniel Twining

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...

Feb 26, 2016

Variations on a (Hedging) Theme: Comparing ASEAN Core States’ Alignment Behavior

By Cheng-Chwee Kuik

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...

Feb 26, 2016

Introduction | Light or Heavy Hedging: Positioning Between China and the United States

By Gilbert Rozman

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...

Aug 20, 2014

Asia’s Slippery Slope

This PDF is the full publication and contains all of the following sections: KEI Board of Directors KEI Advisory Council About the Korea Economic Institute...

Aug 20, 2014

South Korea’s Triangular Relations

By Alexander Lukin, Gilbert Rozman, Sue Mi Terry, Sung-Yoon Lee, The Honorable Donald Manzullo, Valery Denisov

The discussion at the AAS meetings on March 29, 2014 included not only the four authors, but also Thomas Christensen, moderator, and Evans Revere, presenter...

Aug 20, 2014

National Identity Approaches to East and South Asia

By Deepa M. Ollapally, Gilbert Rozman, Jiyoon Kim, Syaru Shirley Lin

The chapters in Section II explore changes in national identity in Asia in the shadow of both the U.S. struggle to reaffirm its leadership of...

Aug 20, 2014

Divergence on Economic Regionalism

By Gilbert Rozman, Jin Kyo Suh, Matthew Goodman, Takashi Terada, Zhang Xiaotong

For a time the endgame appeared to be under way in TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) negotiations and attention was shifting from the potential competition between TPP,...

Aug 20, 2014

New Thinking on Diplomacy Toward North Korea

By Gilbert Rozman, Mark Fitzpatrick, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Shin-wha Lee, Zhu Feng

The fundamental question about the purpose of diplomacy regarding North Korea has come into stark focus. For a time Park Geun-hye seemed to be redoubling...

Aug 18, 2014

Japan-South Korea-U.S. Relations

By Sue Mi Terry

In November 2011, the Obama administration announced that the United States would be “pivoting” towards the Asia-Pacific and away from the Middle East, expanding its...