2013OCT07

Special Forum

Introduction to Special Forum on Strategic Thinking about North Korea

By Editorial Staff

North Korea has been discussed widely, especially since Kim Jong-un took the reins after Kim Jong-il’s death. …

2013OCT07

Special Forum

Chinese Strategic Thinking Regarding North Korea

By Cheng Xiaohe*

In 2013, China is faced with the challenge of weighing the alternative goals of a favorable balance of power in …

2013OCT07

Special Forum

South Korea’s Strategic Thinking on North Korea and Beyond

By Lee Chung Min*

For more than six decades, South Korea has coped with one of the most enduring geopolitical asymmetries in the …

2013OCT07

Special Forum

North Korea in Japan’s Strategic Thinking

By Sheila A. Smith

Through the repeated cycles of North Korean missile and nuclear testing, negotiations, and sanctions that have …

2013OCT07

Special Forum

Russian Strategic Thinking Regarding North Korea

By Alexander Lukin

For Russia the DPRK is not a normal state. The two facts that it is one of Russia’s nearest neighbors and it …

2013OCT05

Open Forum

Economic Priorities and Geopolitical Advantages

By William H. Overholt

After World War II, the structure of geopolitical competition changed. New economic strategies created extraordinarily high growth rates that enabled …

2013OCT04

Open Forum

Modeling a “New Type of Great Power Relations”: A Chinese Viewpoint

By Ren Xiao*

Forging a “new type of great power relations” is a novel foreign relations concept that China has proposed and emphasized of late, drawing widespread …

2013OCT04

Country Reports

Country Report: China (October 2013)

By Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Pang Zengjun)

Chinese writings on international relations in the Asia-Pacific region continue to be the most prolific and informative in comparison to Japanese, …

2013SEP17

Topics of the Month

Japan-Russia Relations - 3

By Kazuhiko Togo

This is a quiet time in Japan-Russia relations without any indication of a transformative event ahead. Further …

2013SEP17

Topics of the Month

The China Dream - 3

By Ming Wan

This monthly post tracks developments around the “China Dream” since August 16, 2013. It continues to be …