Jan 25,2016 Country Reports Country Report: South Korea (January 2016) The APEC and EAS Summits in November On November 24, Kyunghyang Shinmun carried an article by Shin Ju-baek, regretting that the successes in multilateral diplomacy were hardly noticed in light of the intense coverage of the terror attack in Paris and the US-China-Japan competition in the South China Sea. The author points out two achievements, […] Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong) December "Comfort Women" deal , Five-party cooperation , multilateralism , North Korea nuclear issue , Regionalism
Oct 17,2014 Special Forum Sino-Japanese Competition and Its Multilateral Implications While eyes are fixed on the Sino-US competition in East Asia, there is also a competition for influence between China and Japan. In the decade of the 2000s, this centered mostly on Northeast Asia (over the terminus of an oil pipeline across Russia, South Korea’s role in the +3 meetings of ASEAN+3, etc.), and this […] Editorial Staff demonization , India , multilateralism , Southeast Asia , Territorial Disputes , triangular relations , Vietnam
Aug 11,2014 Open Forum Southeast Asia’s Developing Divide The Asan Forum’s introductory Topics of the Month article on the present state of Northeast Asian strategic competition and regionalism by Sergey Radchenko shares much in common with this article. The authors summarized in Multilateralism in Northeast Asia I contend that: 1) there are developing geostrategic divides in Northeast Asia just as the Cold War […] Malcolm Cook ASEAN rebalancing , developing divide , foreign direct investment , FTAs , maritime-continental divide , multilateralism , Regionalism , Southeast Asia
May 23,2014 Special Forum ASEAN-led Multilateralism and Regional Order: The Great Power Bargain Deficit The post-Cold War East Asian and Asia-Pacific strategic landscape has been dominated by three factors: 1) the United States’ military preponderance underpinned by its hub-and-spokes San Francisco system of bilateral alliances; 2) China’s seemingly inexorable resurgence economically as well as diplomatically and militarily; and 3) the proliferation of multilateral regional dialogues, initiatives, and institutions, many […] Evelyn Goh ASEAN , great power bargain deficit , inclusivity , institution-racing , minimalist norms , multilateralism , regional order , restricted scope , small state voices
Jan 10,2014 Country Reports Country Report: South Korea (January 2014) Japan was on Korean minds in the final months of 2013, occasionally interrupted by new reasons to recall North Korea’s looming presence. The year ended with less reason for optimism in both relationships and lingering uncertainty about what that may mean for US and Chinese relations. The Korea-Japan Relationship Before Abe’s year-end visit to the […] Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong) Jang Song-Thaek , military influence , multilateralism , Park-Abe summit , political stability , Yasukuni Shrine