East Asia Insights | The Next Step for the US-Japan Alliance
This issue suggests ways in which Japan and the United States should build upon the success of Abe’s visit to the US in late spring, by focusing on long-term efforts to take a more multifaceted approach in order to promote regional stability and prosperity.
East Asia Insights | Proactive Diplomacy for Peace Under Japan’s New Security Legislation
This issue focuses on how Japan can best position itself to play a more active—but unequivocally peaceful—diplomatic and foreign policy role by making clear how it will reconcile its need to be more proactive in security affairs while retaining its long-held commitment to peace.
East Asia Insights | Six Challenges for US-Japan Cooperation in Asia
In this issue of East Asia Insights, Hitoshi Tanaka outlines six challenges that carry the potential to undermine US-Japan cooperation and calls for close, careful US-Japan consultation and cooperation to ensure that these challenges do not create a wedge in the alliance.
East Asia Insights | Trump’s Rhetoric and the Future of the US-Japan Alliance
This issue discusses the question that has been brought up by the results of the US election: Will US alliance relationships, including the alliance with Japan, weaken as part of the retreat to isolationism espoused by Trump?
East Asia Insights | Shoring Up the US-Japan Alliance under the Trump Administration
This edition of East Asia Insights discusses the sense of uncertainty regarding the future role of the United States in East Asian affairs, following President Trump’s election; the report focuses on a shared US-Japan strategy to face key regional challenges, which will provide both countries with stability in regional affairs.
East Asia Insights | How to Manage Geopolitical Instability in East Asia
This issue discusses the concern surrounding Trump’s anti-globalization sentiment and the surge of populism associated with it, and how these developments may throw the international liberal economic and security order into uncertainty.
East Asia Insights | Breaking the Impasse with North Korea
This report makes recommendations on how the international community can rapidly respond to the intensification of North Korea’s nuclear and missile development, in order to prevent massive bloodshed and instability in the region.
East Asia Insights | Managing the US-China Strategic Rivalry
The intensification of US-China tensions risks undermining regional stability in Asia Pacific. This cannot be resolved simply by ending the current trade war, and disengagement and decoupling is not a realistic option given the high level of interdependence between China and the world. So, what can be done?
East Asia Insights | Regaining Momentum on North Korea Negotiations
The international community is now at a crossroads with North Korea. The lack of progress at the Hanoi Summit raises the risk that the opportunity created by the Singapore Summit may be squandered. How can the US regain momentum in its negotiations and what role might Japan play in this?
East Asia Insights | The Crisis of US Credibility in East Asia
The decision by the US Congress to open an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over his pressuring of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden has brought renewed attention to the foreign policy of the Trump presidency. This drama is playing out in parallel to the ramping up of the 2020 US presidential […]