East Asia Insights | Five Factors That Could Lead to War with North Korea
What are the five factors that could lead to war with North Korea? They include the domestic turmoil in both political systems and the fact that differences between American and North Korean political systems and the absence of normal diplomatic relations increase the possibility of misunderstandings.
East Asia Insights | Confronting Uncertainty in East Asia
From a Japanese perspective, the defining characteristic of East Asia’s regional order today appears to be the high degree of uncertainty that prevails about what might come next. Geopolitical uncertainty seems to be intensifying on all fronts, whether one looks at the disarray engulfing US politics and foreign policy, the escalation of tensions with North Korea, the challenge of managing relations with China, or even Japan’s domestic politics. How can leaders around the region work to find a way to dispel this uncertainty?
China-Japan-US Research and Dialogue Project | Yokohama Conference
As part of the China-Japan-US Research and Dialogue Project, a fifth workshop was held in Yokohama on October 12–13, 2000. The meeting, which brought an end to the first five-year phase of the project, gathered senior project members and the successor generation study groups. Other leading intellectual figures from the three countries were also invited […]