Abstract The United States’ growing frustrations with China lead to the temptation to “get tough” with Beijing. But this may prove difficult given the interdependencies…
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Abstract The United States was formally elevated to the status of strategic dialogue partner to ASEAN last November. […E]ngagement at every opportunity, including through ASEAN’s…
Summary The history of the South China Sea is a catalyst of international cooperation and conflict. Security in the Indo-Asia-Pacific is largely governed by command…
Summary This book develops new theory for superior strategy in complex warfare. The approach is comprehensive and practical, and it is applied to three contemporary…
Abstract With rising US-China tensions in the course of the US presidential campaign, Marc Grossman considers the possibilities for a collaborative relationship and the costs…
Abstract Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is often now cited by the remaining band of optimists in Washington as a safe pair of hands, limiting…
Abstract Shifts in U.S. nuclear policies under the Trump Administration may affect Japan in significant ways. The demands of formulating a coherent set of policies…
Abstract The U.S. deployed a missile defense system, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in South Korea in April 2017, citing North Korea’s nuclear and…
Abstract On 7 July 2017 122 countries at the UN voted to approve the text of a proposed international treaty entitled ‘Draft Treaty on the…
Abstract Apocalyptic panic and glib memes frame much of American discourse about the current North Korean nuclear crisis. Yet the North Korean crisis poses a…
Abstract Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop declared in September 2017 that the emerging US-India-Japan-Australia Indo-Pacific “quadrilateral dialogue” would be founded on “respect for international law…
Abstract In November 2017, US President Donald Trump visited East Asia. In Japan, the country where he first stopped, he first played half round of…
Abstract In this paper, we examine the extent to which wartime violence against civilians during the Korean War affects people’s current attitudes toward South Korea…
Abstract Many scholars have suggested that Japan aligned its foreign policy with the US War on Terror. Part of Japan’s alignment is said to have…
Abstract This commentary discusses what is popularly regarded as the “Roh Moo-hyun Phenomenon” in today’s South Korean society, as an attempt to shed some light…
