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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioNorth Korea: Planning for After the Kims

Kongdan Oh, October 29, 2008, International Herald Tribune

North Korea: Planning for After the KimsThere has been much speculation over the declining health of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in recent weeks. Kongdan Oh writes that it is imperative to prepare for the eventual collapse of the Kim regime and that regime change in North Korea can open the way for an end to the Cold War on the Korean peninsula and build the foundation of a democratic and unified Korea that will influence the region. Read More

North Korea, Northeast Asia, Nuclear Weapons, Asia

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Save to My PortfolioU.S.- ROK: The Forgotten Alliance

Kongdan Oh, October 2008, The Brookings Institution

U.S.- ROK: The Forgotten AllianceThough North Korea receives far more attention in the media, South Korea – a major trading partner and military ally – is far more important to the United States. As defense leaders from the United States and South Korea meet for the 40th annual Security Consultative Meeting, Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Kongdan Oh writes that Washington and Seoul must recast their alliance. Read More

South Korea, Northeast Asia, International Relations, North Korea, Defense

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioObama, McCain Camps Impact on Taiwan

Shih-chung Liu, October 07, 2008, Taipei Times

Liu Shih-Chung analyzes the similarities and differences between the Taiwan policies of John McCain and Barack Obama. Read More

Taiwan, China, Diplomacy, U.S. Politics, Foreign Policy

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Save to My PortfolioKeeping North Korea in Mind

Michael E. O'Hanlon, September 26, 2008, The Washington Times

Michael O'Hanlon writes that Korea has been the forgotten nuclear crisis, but the presidential candidates need to talk about—and show understanding of—the issues. O'Hanlon believes North Korea should be offered a roadmap to much improved economic and political relations if it gives up nuclear weapons and makes gradual reforms in its conventional military, its economy and its human rights behavior. Read More

North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Elections, Northeast Asia, Foreign Policy

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioRecruitment, Training and Education in China’s 80-year-old Military

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
2:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Jason LeeOn September 17, chapter authors from The “People” in the PLA: Recruitment, Training, and Education in China’s 80-year Old Military, co-produced by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and The National Bureau of Asian Research, presented their findings, examining the human capital of China’s military at this event. Read More

China, Asia, Northeast Asia

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Save to My PortfolioTaiwan: Tsai Works to Convince the U.S. of Democratic Progressive Party Change

Shih-chung Liu, September 16, 2008, Taipei Times

Shih-chung Liu discusses Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen's recent visit to the United States. Liu believes that Tsai's visit shows that the DPP has found a new sense of responsibility toward relations with the U.S. and that her party is interested in rebuilding broken relations. Read More

Taiwan, Diplomacy, China, Northeast Asia, Asia

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Save to My PortfolioFukuda's Resignation: A Pandora’s Box for the Japan-U.S. Alliance?

Keiko Iizuka, September 2008, Brookings Northeast Asia Commentary

Fukuda's Resignation: A Pandora’s Box for the Japan-U.S. Alliance?Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s abrupt resignation on September 1 illustrated continuing instability in Japanese politics, and may help force his Liberal Democratic Party to lose control of the government. Keiko Iizuka writes that a new government could encourage debate and enact policies that will place severe strain on the Japan-U.S. alliance. Read More

Japan, Northeast Asia, Asia, International Relations, Politics

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Save to My PortfolioU.S. Policy in Asia: Meeting Opportunities and Challenges

Monday, July 28, 2008
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Joshua RobertsOn July 28, 2008, the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies hosted an event featuring remarks by Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte on U.S. policy toward Asia and its evolution in light of the major political, economic, and security trends shaping the region. Read More

Asia, Northeast Asia, Foreign Policy, International Relations, China

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Save to My PortfolioVietnam's Model for North Korea

Michael E. O'Hanlon, July 17, 2008, USA Today

Michael O'Hanlon believes North Korea's recent nuclear declaration is good news, but he also warns the U.S. must remain cautious about the outcome. O'Hanlon argues that if the U.S. and its allies focus on fostering reform in North Korea, through carrots of aid, trade, investment and diplomatic contact, all parties may avoid returning to a crisis of severe levels. Read More

North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Diplomacy, Northeast Asia, Sanctions

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Save to My PortfolioNorth Korea's Nuclear Declaration

Jeffrey A. Bader and Richard C. Bush III, June 26, 2008, The Brookings Institution

North Korea's Nuclear DeclarationWith North Korea now releasing information on its nuclear program and the Bush Administration stating that it will lift sanctions and remove North Korea from its list of terrorist states, Jeffrey Bader and Richard Bush offer their comments on both actions and offer recommendations for future U.S. policy. Bader and Bush say that North Korea will first need to allow on-the-ground verification at its nuclear sites. Read More

North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Japan, Sanctions, Proliferation

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Save to My PortfolioAsian Regionalism, Strategic Evolution, and U.S. Policy in Asia

Fu-Kuo Liu, June 2008, The Brookings Institution

Since the Asian financial crisis began in 1997, momentum toward regionalism in East Asia has increased and the process has become more Asia-centric. In this CNAPS Visiting Fellow Working Paper, Liu Fu-Kuo traces the development of the new East Asian regionalism, with a special look at the consequences of excluding Taiwan from multilateral institutions. Read More

Taiwan, China, Northeast Asia, Asia, Economic Development

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioPerceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy in East Asia

Tuesday, June 03, 2008
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC

On June 3, the Brookings Institution hosted a discussion with the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) visiting fellows who are completing their academic year at Brookings. They discussed their views of U.S. foreign policy and current relations between their countries and the U.S. Read More

Northeast Asia, Foreign Policy, Asia

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Save to My PortfolioThe Japanese State Identity as a Grand Strategic Imperative

Masahiro Matsumura, May 2008, The Brookings Institution

The Japanese State Identity as a Grand Strategic ImperativeConfronting a rising China, Japanese strategic thinkers are already changing their geo-strategic calculations, and will soon have to redefine the Japanese state identity, the basis of its geo-strategic choices. In this CNAPS Working Paper, 2006-2007 Visiting Fellow Masahiro Matsumura discusses the development of Japan’s state identity and examines its future strategic options. Read More

Japan, China, Asia, Northeast Asia, Foreign Policy

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Save to My PortfolioHow to Feed North Korea

Roberta Cohen, May 05, 2008, Washington Post

How to Feed North KoreaHunger should know no politics, as President Ronald Reagan declared to justify food aid to Ethiopians starving under a brutal communist regime in the 1980s. Therefore South Korea's criticism of North Korea's human rights record need not prevent its providing food and fertilizer to hungry people in the North. Read More

North Korea, Human Rights, Global Food Crisis, South Korea, Asia

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioIl neonazionalismo della diaspora

Michael Fullilove, May 2008, Aspenia No. 41

Michael Fullilove writes about China’s expanding clout in southeast and northeast Asia, its thickening ties with U.S. treaty allies, its emerging influence in resource-rich countries, its role in the new Asian institutions and its quickening interactions with the United Nations. (Italian) Read More

China, Asia, Northeast Asia

Featured Experts

Richard C. Bush III

Richard C. Bush III

Director, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
The Michael H. Armacost Chair

Richard Bush’s two-decade public service career spans Congress, the intelligence community and the U.S. State Department. He currently focuses on China-Taiwan relations, U.S.-China relations, the Korean peninsula and Japan’s security. He is the author of, among other works,  A War Like No Other: The Truth About China's Challenge to America,  Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait , and At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations Since 1942.

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Michael E. O'Hanlon

Michael E. O'Hanlon

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy
The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair

Michael O’Hanlon specializes in U.S. national security policy. He is senior author of the Iraq Index. A former defense budget analyst who advised members of Congress on military spending, he specializes in Iraq, North Korea, homeland security, the use of military force and other defense issues. He is also director of Opportunity 08.
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