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Where Is India in South Korea’s New Indo-Pacific Strategy? Seoul’s Indo-Pacific strategy converges with India’s outlook of the region, while sharing a common vision that goes beyond great power politics. By Jagannath Panda and Choong Yong Ahn The Diplomat, January 27, 2023 Then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in (left) walks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a state visit to New De..

Whatever Path US Diplomacy Takes, Sanctions on North Korea Are Here to Stay Washington might be looking for a course correction on engagement with North Korea, but don’t expect any change to sanctions policy. By Aaron Arnold The Diplomat October 29, 2022 Credit: White House photo North Korea’s recent ballistic missile tests are just the latest in a string of provocations that some fear will end ..

The madness of Truss’s energy price cap It’s going to cost hundreds of billions and make blackouts more likely Sam Ashworth-Hayes 6 September 2022, 12:20pm hile Boris Johnson used his farewell speech to praise the ‘vital symmetry between government action and free market capitalist private sector enterprise’, the formerly free market Liz Truss was busy briefing out price caps on energy. There ar..

NATIONS CAN’T ESCAPE THEIR OWN HISTORY James Landale, diplomatic correspondent, BBC News, reports from Helsinki The Diplomat, July 7, 2022 The best diplomats are also historians. They need to see the short-term through the prism of the long. They need to know what worked in the past and what did not. They need to have a grasp of where the world has been to have a sense of where it might go. When..

Lessons from a Turkish Coup The country that invented the ‘deep state’ teaches us how it can be dealt with. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and his officers in Smyrna (now Izmir) in 1922. (Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images) Nicholas Spyridon Kass The American Conservative July 1, 2022 The idea of the “Deep State” took root in the American mind in response to the “Resistance” against Donald Trump’s electio..

文在寅、青瓦台からの「執務室移転」進める次期大統領に見苦しい嫌がらせ 退任前の最大の関心事は「いかに次期政権の足を引っ張るか」 李 正宣 JB Press, 2022.3.25（金） 政権交代期にある韓国で、新旧権力が激しく衝突している。大統領候補時代の公約だった「大統領執務室の移転」を実行しようとする尹錫悦（ユン・ソクヨル）氏の計画に対して、文在寅（ムン・ジェイン）大統領が「安保」を口実に必死の“妨害”を試みている。僅差で惜敗した腹いせでもするかのように、文在寅政権による最後の嫌がらせが始まっているのだ。 国民生活と隔絶した「青瓦台」という空間 韓国大統領の官邸と執務室がある青瓦台は、韓国の「帝王的大統領制」を象徴する場所だ。 朝鮮時代の王の住処だった景福宮の裏側に位置する北岳山につながる7万坪を超える土地に、官邸と執務室、迎賓館の他、数棟の建物で構成されている。青瓦台の中は、記者ク..

Editor's Choice Rethinking strategy and statecraft for the twenty-first century of complexity: a case for strategic diplomacy Jochen Prantl, Evelyn Goh International Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 2, March 2022, Pages 443–469, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab212 Published: 07 March 2022 Abstract Today's most pressing security and policy challenges—great power conflict, economic interdependence, peaceb..

When Nixon met Mao: 50 years later, reverberations are still felt Yahoo USA February 13, 2022, 6:30 PM In February 1972, US president Richard Nixon defied conventional foreign policy wisdom when he arrived in Beijing for a series of meetings with Chinese leader Mao Zedong, who also took a significant risk in hosting the American president. In recognition of the historical importance of the trip,..

Why Won’t Vietnam Teach the History of the Sino-Vietnamese War? Vietnam is reluctant to include the 1979 conflict in history textbooks, continuing a decades-long silence. By Travis Vincent for The Diplomat February 09, 2022 The exam period at Vietnamese colleges often falls in late January, a few weeks before the commemoration of the Sino-Vietnamese war, known in Vietnamese as Chiến tranh biên g..

Have South Korean Conservatives Made a Full Comeback? The People Power Party’s makeover has come a long way, but there are still some hurdles to overcome to compete with the progressives. By James Park for The Diplomat October 14, 2021 Guest Author James Park James Park is the 2021 YPFP Asia-Pacific Fellow. He is a graduate student in International Politics and China Studies at the Johns Hopkins..