Abstract Peace through strength, regime change to democracy, and preemptive strikes are known to be neoconservative policies which are based on such values as hegemonic…
Country or Region: North Korea
Abstract This paper examines the logics and problems of U.S. nuclear weapon redeployment demands among the general public in the Republic of Korea (ROK) to…
Abstract Is the phrase, “History controls Korea-Japan relations,” the most accurate assessment of the situation? Some experts contend that the relationship after World War II…
Abstract Is the relatively long peace of Northeast Asia a result of crisis stability or general stability? The article introduces two stability concepts – crisis…
Summary Security and Conflict in East Asia provides a timely and thorough analysis of the sources and implications of conflict on the Korean peninsula, China and…
Abstract This article deconstructs United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2094 through the preambulatory statements, objectives, obligations, and implementation and enforcement provisions of UNSC Resolution…
Summary The global consensus in academic, specialist and public realms is that North Korea is a problem: its nuclear ambitions pose a threat to international security,…
Abstract U.S. policy toward North Korea is based on wishful thinking: despite repeated predictions of its imminent collapse, the Kim regime has proven it is…
Abstract It is by now becoming increasingly clear that the Asia-Pacific region will come to dominate the international relations of at least the first half…
Summary This book analyses the Japanese-South Korean relationship from various angles including politics, security, economics, culture and immigration. In a sense the two countries are…
Summary With China now South Korea’s number one trading partner and destination for foreign investment and tourism, what are the implications for politics and security…
Abstract China’s role in the North Korean nuclear issue has undergone major change in recent years. In the initial years of the Six-Party Talks, China’s…
Summary North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons raises fears of nuclear war on the peninsula and the specter of terrorists gaining access to weapons of…
Abstract There has not only been an escalation in Sino–North Korean economic relations of late, but a qualitative shift has also taken place in the…
Summary Rarely in the atomic age have hopes been raised as high as they are now for genuine progress toward disarmament. The new receptivity reflected…
