Abstract Two nuclear crises recently haunted the Korean peninsula, one in 1993/4, the other in 2002/3. In each case the events were strikingly similar: North…
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Abstract This article examines China’s emerging nuclear capability and its strategic consequences. China will be able to deploy, for the first time, a truly secure…
Summary Nearly half a century after the fighting stopped, the 1953 Armistice has yet to be replaced with a peace treaty formally ending the Korean…
Summary China and South Korea have come a long way since they were adversaries. The arc of their relationship since the late 1970s is an…
Summary US relations with North and South Korea have been characterized by profound asymmetries of power and perception which in recent years have led to…
Summary Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have been two of the most critical pillars of peace, stability, and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region…
Abstract Relocating the forward-deployed U.S. forces in Korea south of the Han River is part of the Pentagon’s Global Defense Posture Review, a process that stems from…
Abstract Since the collapse of the U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework in 2002, the Bush administration has failed to restrain North Korea’s nuclear weapons ambitions, principally because of…
Abstract This paper examines U.S. engagement in Central Asia over the past two decades, with specific reference to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. While alarmist voices…
Abstract The U.S.-India civil nuclear energy agreement triggered a contentious debate in India from 2005 to 2008. Regional political actors played crucial and unanticipated roles…
Abstract The post-Cold War US-South Korea alliance has been publicly pronounced as having become less cohesive over time. How can we prove this change of…
Summary Dennis Kux’s book possesses a wealth of new information, based partly on fresh research in published and archival sources, but based even more impressively…
Summary The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan—to American eyes—has gone from being a quirky irrelevance,…
Abstract This article examines the strategic wisdom of the US Predator drone campaign in Pakistan, particularly in light of the dramatic expansion in the number…
Summary This book examines the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan, and analyzes its connections to Pakistan Army’s policies and the fluctuating U.S.-Pakistan relations. It…
