Abstract Storage facilities are filling up at South Korea’s nuclear power plants, making spent fuel management a hot-button issue. But so far, attempts to create…
Country or Region: South Korea
Summary Peaceful Korean reunification would end a growing nuclear threat, ease regional and geopolitical tensions, and bring about significant economic growth and cooperation in resource-rich…
Abstract This article analyses the process of economic development and associated political transformations in South Korea since the mid-1960s. It claims that, as in the…
Summary This collection documents the different ways in which Asian governments have been pursuing economic nationalism even as they have been integrating with the world…
Abstract The 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan will roll around on August 15, 2015, no doubt eliciting a hailstorm of commentary—and speculation that…
Abstract One of the most important developments in the modern global economy is financial globalization. This has raised threats to the stability of political regimes…
Abstract This study explores the causes of the South Korean government’s failure to successfully deploy its renewable energy policy. Despite the South Korean government’s ongoing…
Summary In this wide-ranging collection of essays first published between 2007 and 2014, Charles Wolf Jr. shares his insights on…
Summary The U.S. and Western victory in the Cold War emerged from a strategy of national building and reconstruction that sought to create strong polities…
Summary As the locus of Great Power rivalry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the battleground for the first ‘hot’ conflict of the early…
Summary Since the Cold War ended, East Asia has become the global focus of unresolved strategic tensions among the great powers. These tensions focus on…
Summary Nationalism appears to be rising in a renascent Asia and stoking tensions, aspirations, and identity politics while amplifying grievances and raising questions about prospects…
Abstract South Korea’s seven governmental ministries and agency jointly announced a “Master Plan for Arctic Policy” on December 10, 2013. This represents the state’s first…
Abstract New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has only been in office since late September, but already the outlines of his administration are becoming clearer,…
Abstract The Asia Pacific region has undergone fundamental changes in its regional organization and power structure in the post-Cold War era. The region was long…
