TheAsanForum

Open Forum

• China and India: Coping with Growing Asymmetry

  Swaran Singh
  Asymmetry , India

• International Peace in Asia: Will it Endure?

  Muthiah Alagappa
  armed peace , deterrence , international legitimacy , sovereignty , trust-building

• Looking Eastward to China: Beijing’s Central Asian Diplomacy and its Implications for China’s New Silk Road Initiatives

  Hasan H. Karrar
  bazaar , Central Asia , economic connectivity , informal economy , Maritime Silk Road

• The Northeast Asia Peace and Cooperation Initiative (NAPCI): A Vision toward Sustainable Peace and Cooperation in Northeast Asia

  Lee Sang-Hyun
  " NAPCI , "Asia Paradox , regional collective security framework , South Korea , trust-building

• The New Fulcrum of Asia: The Indo-Japan Entente and the Rise of China

  John W. Garver
  1962 War , Abe Shinzo , arms sales , India , military exercises

• Washington Insights: December 2014

  Editorial Staff
  "Asia for the Asians , Bipolarity , hedging against China , triangularity , US rebalancing

Country Reports

Review Article

Forum Commentaries

Special Commentaries

• "US-Japan Relations:
  Do We Share the Same Values and Overall View of History?"

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  A Japanese Perspective

  Nakanishi Hiroshi

  Article 9 , Asianism , collective self-defense , historical revisionism , Japan
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  A US Perspective

  Admiral Dennis Blair

  common history , historical reinterpretation , history textbook revisionism , localized history curriculum , national history curriculum
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  A South Korean Perspective

  Bong Youngshik , Hyun Daesong

  Asia-Pacific/Atlantac security community , eizoku haisen (state of permanent defeat) , Japan , normalization , remembrance of colonial occupation

Topics of the Month

December 2014

• Introduction to Topics of the Month

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  China Dream – 1

  William A. Callahan

  China Dream , Chinese civilization , pessoptimistic nationalism , Road to Rejuvenation , socialism

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  Comparative Southeast Asian Military Modernization – 3

  Felix K. Chang

  defense community , military cooperation

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  Comparative Southeast Asian Military Modernization – 2

  Felix K. Chang

  balancer to China's rise , maritime interests , mediator , militarization , South China Sea