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 …

2018NOV29

Country Reports

Country Report: Russia (November 2018)

By Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

The extraordinary flux in the Indo-Pacific area has elicited diverse and exploratory writing in Russia. No part of the region is ignored in the search …

2018NOV26

Country Reports

Country Report: South Korea (November 2018)

By Kim Kimberly

The 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly President Moon Jae-in’s New York itinerary was all about sharing the meeting results from …

2018NOV15

Open Forum

Washington Insights Vol. 6, No. 6

By Editorial Staff

North Korea had slipped into the background, US-Japan ties had lost some significance, and China loomed ever larger as the fall began in DC. Concern was …

2018OCT24

Special Forum

Introduction

By Editorial Staff

The optimism about democratization that rose sharply in the second half of the 1980s and stood strong in the …

2018OCT24

Special Forum

Democratization, National Identity, and Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia

By Aurel Croissant

Southeast Asia presents social scientists with a laboratory for the analysis of the relationship between …

2018OCT24

Special Forum

The Mediating Role of National Identity in Democratization and Lessons from …

By Gilbert Rozman

Trade wars and security clashes are in the forefront across greater Asia, but we would be remiss to overlook …