Jun 8, 2012

Chinese Politics and the Korean Peninsula

By Gilbert Rozman

Leadership has great bearing on the way the states active in Northeast Asia address sensitive questions related to the Korean peninsula. How should the shared...

Jun 8, 2012

The View from China

By Andrew Scobell

It has become conventional wisdom in recent years to characterize the PRC as an “assertive” power. Since 2008, many commentators and analysts insist that China...

Jun 8, 2012

Japan’s Response to Nuclear North Korea

By Narushige Michshita

When scholars and commentators discuss Japan’s response to nuclear-armed North Korea, many jump to the conclusion that Japan will start thinking about arming itself with...

Jun 7, 2012

South Korean National Identity Gaps with China and Japan

By Gilbert Rozman

Read the Chinese Internet and mainstream publications, and you will find virulent charges against South Korean attitudes toward China.1 Peruse even a small sample of...

Jun 7, 2012

Diverging Trajectories of Trust in Northeast Asia: South Korea’s Security Relations with Japan and China

By Leif-Eric Easley

Most studies of contemporary Northeast Asian security focus on the U.S. interaction with China, Japan or South Korea and are concerned with aspects of national...

Jun 7, 2012

A Cognitive Approach to Ethnic Identity Construction in the Korean Enclave in Beijing

By Sharon Yoon

With increasing economic interdependence between South Korea and the PRC since the 1990s, in recent years, over two million South Koreans are reported to cross...

Jun 7, 2012

The U.S. Approach to Regional Trade Agreements Involving East Asia

By Edward J. Lincoln

The U.S. government has had a long and convoluted approach to the issue of bilateral or regional trade agreements involving East Asian countries. This paper...

Jun 7, 2012

South Korea: Which Way Will it Go on Asian Integration?

By Hyung-gon, Jeong

Since 1990, Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs), including Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Customs Unions, have spread rapidly on the basis of the WTO system that...

Jun 7, 2012

Competing Templates in Asia Pacific Economic Integration

By Peter A. Petri

Nearly two decades have passed since the last major multilateral trade agreements were concluded in 1993—a gap already longer than any since the GATT/WTO system...

Apr 2, 2012

Selling North Korea in New Frontiers: Profit and Revolution in Cyberspace

By Jane Kim

When the Internet became accessible to the international public in the 1990’s, it forever revolutionized the way people exchange information and communication. Demands for connection...

Apr 2, 2012

North Koreans Have Cell Phones – Why cell phones won’t lead to revolution and how they strengthen the regime.

By Peter Nesbitt

Until the recent passing of Kim Jong-il, the world thought of North Korea as a Stalinist, Hermit Kingdom run by a crazy, nuclear weapon-building, grey...

Apr 2, 2012

Nothing to be Afraid of? North Korean Political Economy and Economic Reform

By Ian Rinehart

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) President Kim il-Sung explained to his counterpart Erich Honecker, President of the German Democratic Republic, in 1977 that building...