Hardliners Target Dtente with North Korea
The opponents of engagement with North Korea are sharpening their knives.
The Paradox of East Asian Peace
A peace structure in East Asia is both impossible and inevitable.
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60-Second Expert: U.S.-Korea Relations
The United States is negotiating with North Korea but hasn’t changed its fundamental policy toward the region.
Three Hard Truths
The United States is negotiating with North Korea but hasn’t changed its fundamental policy toward the region.
Seoul Searching
after several years of strained relations between Seoul and Washington, will the Bush administration do a similar about-face and throw a lifeline to Roh Moo-Hyun?
Article 9’s Global Impact
Japan is on the verge of abandoning its peace constitution. But Tokyo should think twice, for the sake of Japan, the region, and the world.
Geography is a Flavor
It is often said that Americans learn their geography only when a war prompts the TV news to display a map, with helpful arrows and starbursts to indicate ground assaults and aerial attacks amid the confusing borders and hard-to-pronounce place names.
Interview with David Mura
The Japanese American writer talks with E. Ethelbert Miller about Asia, racism, and the foreign policy of Minnesota.
The New Pacific Wall
Australia is the capstone of a new, U.S.-constructed security perimeter in the Pacific. As columnist Conn Hallinan explains, the target of this containment strategy is China.
Deeply Unequal World
A new landmark report by the United Nations University in Helsinki shows the growing global wealth divide.
China and Southeast Asia
Beijing is wooing Southeast Asia. Washington can either try to break up the relationship, writes Evelyn Goh, or work out a more peaceable ménage a trois.
Japan’s Persian Gulf Policies in the Koizumi Era
Has the Koizumi administration abandoned neutrality, historic pacifism, and common sense in its pursuit of oil and a stronger alliance with the United States?