Aug 18, 2014

The Seoul-Beijing-Tokyo Triangle: Terra-centric Nordpolitik vs. Oceanic Realpolitik

By Sung-Yoon Lee

History has shown that a power vacuum on the Korean Peninsula is an invitation to aggression. The 60-year-period from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 to...

Aug 18, 2014

China-South Korea-U.S. Relations

By Gilbert Rozman

After the collapse of the Six-Party Talks in 2008 and the confrontational setting of 2009-12 when Sino-South Korean relations were mostly troubled, a new dynamic...

Aug 18, 2014

Russia, China, and the Korean Peninsula

By Alexander Lukin, Valery Denisov

Korea traditionally occupies an important place in Russia’s foreign policy directed at Asia. That was the case at the turn of the twentieth century and...

Aug 18, 2014

Japan’s National Identity Gaps: A Framework for Analysis of International Relations in Asia

By Gilbert Rozman

On December 26 China’s leadership commemorated the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth by bowing before his statue at the mausoleum in his honor on...

Aug 18, 2014

National Identity and Attitudes Toward North Korean Defectors

By Jiyoon Kim

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...

Aug 18, 2014

Bridging the Chinese National Identity Gap: Alternative Identities in Hong Kong and Taiwan

By Syaru Shirley Lin

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...

Aug 18, 2014

Identity and Strategy in India’s Asia-Pacific Policy

By Deepa M. Ollapally

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...

Aug 18, 2014

Asia-Pacific Regional Economic Integration: U.S. Strategy and Approach

By Matthew Goodman

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...

Aug 18, 2014

Japan and Regional Integration Dominoes: Golden Opportunity or Another Political Failure?

By Takashi Terada

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.”...

Aug 18, 2014

Korean Bridge: Balancing Asian Economic Regionalism Between the United States and China

By Jin Kyo Suh

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...

Aug 18, 2014

South Korea’s Search for a New Diplomatic Strategy Toward North Korea: Trustpolitik as a Goldilocks Approach?

By Shin-wha Lee

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....

Aug 18, 2014

What to Do about North Korea

By Mark Fitzpatrick

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...