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Introduction | Dealing with North Korean Provocations

Provocations by North Korea can take various forms: weapons tests, acts of direct violence, cyber attacks, threatening force buildups, etc. Individually and as a group,...

Gilbert Rozman

February 29, 2016

Publication

Japanese National Identity and the Search for Realism Toward North Korea and Russia

North Korea and Russia are seen as posing an increasingly dangerous military threat as we enter 2015, and the responses of other states to them...

Gilbert Rozman

February 29, 2016

Publication

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...

Sandra Fahy

February 29, 2016

Publication

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...

Gilbert Rozman

February 29, 2016

Publication

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...

Park Jin

February 26, 2016

Publication

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...

Malcolm Cook

February 26, 2016

Publication

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...

Daniel Twining

February 26, 2016

Publication

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...

Cheng-Chwee Kuik

February 26, 2016

Publication

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...

Gilbert Rozman

February 26, 2016

Publication

Republican Presidential Candidates Discuss Regime Change and North Korea in Houston Debate

In last night’s CNN-Telemundo Republican debate, the remaining candidates got the chance to comment on the situation on the Korean Peninsula and highlight their policy...

February 26, 2016

Analysis

Is South Korea’s Strategic Gambit Beginning to Pay Early Dividends?

Seoul has chosen to change the international dynamics surrounding North Korea’s nuclear program, and may be beginning to see early dividends in its shift in...

Troy Stangarone

February 12, 2016

Analysis

Relations between North and South Korea Hit Rock Bottom

Make no mistake, South Korea’s shuttering of the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) which it had operated just across the border in North Korea since 2004...

Mark Tokola

February 10, 2016

Analysis

U.S. Presidential Candidates on North Korea’s Missile Test

Shortly before the 8th Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire North Korea conducted its second successful satellite launch. North Korea was also topic of discussion...

February 7, 2016

Analysis

Satellite or Missile Test?: The Fallout from North Korea’s Missile Launch

Combined with it fourth nuclear test a little more than a month ago, Pyongyang has undertaken two major provocations and the international community has yet...

Troy Stangarone

February 7, 2016

Analysis

January 2016: An Even Tougher Start for Inter-Korean Relations

The new year did not start off well for inter-Korean relations.

Nicholas Hamisevicz

February 2, 2016

Analysis