Feb 15, 2012

Engaging and Transforming North Korea’s Economy

By William Brown

North Korea badly needs change but whether that change can and should be induced or forced from the outside is open to question. This paper...

Feb 15, 2012

Prospects for Creating a Great, Green Path to Power

By George Hutchinson

China, Japan, and South Korea are dependent on fossil fuels. This reliance perpetuates vulnerabilities to energy supply, incites resource competition, and exposes each country to...

Feb 15, 2012

Going Global: Issues Facing South Korea as an Emerging Nuclear Exporter

By Chen Kane, Miles A. Pomper, Stephanie C. Lieggi

In the last year, South Korea has won a number of contracts for foreign nuclear sales against stiff competition from traditional nuclear suppliers, putting it...

Feb 15, 2012

Bridging the Global Gap: Korea’s Leadership Agenda for the G-20

By Balbina Y. Hwang, Youngji Jo

The upcoming G-20 Leaders’ Summit, which will be held in Seoul on 11–12 November is of critical importance to the global economy as the world...

Feb 15, 2012

Korea, ASEAN, and East Asian Regionalism

By David Arase

As actors dwarfed in size by China and Japan, and reliant on a regional balance of power for security, Korea and ASEAN have parallel economic...

Feb 15, 2012

U.S.-Russian-Chinese Cooperation for the Security of Korea

By Doug J. Kim

The United States, Russia, and China have cooperated to help deter North Korea from again invading the South and thus preventing Korean tensions to become...

Feb 15, 2012

Tomorrow’s East Asia Today: Regional Security Cooperation for the 21st Century

By Andrew L. Oros

Security cooperation in East Asia lags behind other forms of regional coopera- tion. The relationship among China, Japan, and the United States—the most powerful security...

May 25, 2011

Free Trade Agreements and the Future of U.S.-Korean Trade Relations

By Jeffrey J. Schott

During the past decade, the United States and Korea have pursued free trade agreements (FTAs) with a number of bilateral trading partners. For the United...

May 25, 2011

From Crisis to Recovery: Korea’s Policy Response to the Global Financial Meltdown, August 2007-June 2009

By Park Yung-chul

During the two-year period since the outbreak in August 2007 of the U.S. subprime crisis, Korea has felt its severe effects: Korea’s economy contracted sharply...

May 25, 2011

Future Directions for Northeast Asian Regionalism: New Security and Trade Architectures (

By James L. Schoff

There is certainly a place for regionalism in Northeast Asia.1 It already exists in various amorphous ways, but regional identity is relatively weak in Northeast...

May 25, 2011

Rising China and North Pacific Security: A Net Assessment

By Denny Roy

The rise of China means that the regional (not global) power structure is shifting from unipolarity to bipolarity. Whether this is a positive or negative...

May 25, 2011

North Korean Issue: What Can be Done?

By Andrei Lankov

The dramatic events of recent months—and, above all, North Korea’s second nuclear test and long-range missile launch—demonstrated once again that the Barack Obama administration and...