2018DEC30

Open Forum

Japan’s Debates on Russia and China: What is New in the Final Months of 2018?

By Gilbert Rozman

Japan’s relations with China and Russia have shifted in important ways in the final months of 2018, but each bilateral relationship needs to be …

2018DEC27

Country Reports

Country Report: Japan (December 2018)

By Editorial Staff

The last part of 2018 was marked by the hopeful aftermath of the Abe-Xi summit and the new push by Abe and Putin to resolve the long-lingering dispute …

2018DEC20

Special Forum

Introduction

By Gilbert Rozman

The history of East Asian democratization has been cast in terms of negative Confucian heritage, postwar US …

2018DEC20

Special Forum

China’s Political Trajectory and Foreign Relations under the Influence of …

By Yinan He

Since Xi Jinping formally ascended to power in 2013, China has been flaunting its superior “China …

2018DEC20

Special Forum

Analyzing the Relationship between Identity and Democratization in Taiwan and …

By Syaru Shirley Lin

After 160 years of non-democratic colonial rule by the British, Hong Kong became part of China in 1997 under a …

2018DEC20

Special Forum

Democracy is More than a Political System: Lessons from South Korea’s …

By Erik Mobrand

An assessment of South Korea’s democratization requires acknowledging juxtaposing patterns. On the one …

2018DEC20

Special Forum

National Identity and Democracy: Lessons from the Case of Japan

By Tadashi Anno

The relationship between national identity and democracy is a complicated one. National identity provides a …

2018DEC20

Country Reports

Country Report: China (December 2018)

By Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

In late 2018, Chinese experts assessed China’s relations with India and India’s maritime strategy in the Indian Ocean under the Modi …

2018DEC20

Open Forum

Thirty Years of Japan’s Diplomacy toward the Korean Peninsula

By Miyagi Taizo

When considering Japan’s politics and diplomacy toward North Korea over the thirty years from the second half of the 1980s four important …

2018DEC11

Open Forum

The Last Asian Frontier? A Comparison of the Economic Cooperation Agendas of China, Japan, and South Korea with Uzbekistan

By Timur Dadabaev

China, Japan and South Korea have regarded Central Asia (CA) as a new, and perhaps the last, Asian frontier in their foreign policies after the collapse …