Abstract: The purpose of this article is to review the practices of South Korea concerning interdiction, especially on the seas, in response to the various…
Country or Region: South Korea
Abstract: This study investigates the causes of Japan’s failure to reconcile the matter of South Korean “comfort women” from World War II. It draws on…
Abstract: East Asia is still politically and diplomatically divided while increasingly becoming integrated economically. East Asian states, excluding Japan, share a common experience in that…
Abstract: Twenty years from now, the Chinese economy might be twice as large as that of the United States. Since great powers have always claimed…
Abstract: This study analyzes the reflection of the “great power identity” of China during the Xi Jinping administration in its policy on the Korean Peninsula.…
Abstract: The Japanese often frame the history of East Asia in a “Japan versus China” dichotomy, and they have long embraced a “national narrative” that…
Abstract: Despite the ties between politics and economics, little attention has been given to how economic development affects foreign policy. To fill the gap in…
Abstract: This paper examines whether South Korea’s official development assistance (ODA) has promoted foreign policy cooperation from its recipients. To this end, vote congruence between…
Abstract: [Note: This a speech the author presented at the Northeast Asia Cooperation Forum hosted by the East Asia Research Center, School of International Relations,…
Abstract: Reflecting upon the desire to expand the jurisdiction in the sea, the UNCLOS introduced and established the exclusive economic zone, new continental shelf system,…
Abstract: China’s current approach towards the Korean peninsula, especially in the security dimension, is the product of a combination of long-standing Chinese historical concerns and…
Abstract: A defining feature of the Northeast Asian developmental state was a focus on maximising investment and suppressing growth in consumption. While consistently high rates…
Preview: In this paper, following a brief history of the development of nuclear energy in South Korea, the root causes that instilled public distrust of…
Preview: Despite short-term perturbations, however, nuclear power’s massive sunk-cost structure and embeddedness in national energy plans have made massive changes in the field unlikely in…
Abstract: Since the 1980s, Japan’s war memory has strained its relations with South Korea and China, to a less degree, the USA. Two of the…
