KIA – Asia’s middle powers on the rise?
Author: Jonas Parello-Plesner China and India (Chindia) is on everybody’s lips when talking about rising Asia. Then what is KIA? A car, most people would reply. Yet it could also be the new brand-name...
View ArticleHatoyama’s middle-power diplomacy in New York
Author: Tobias Harris It may be too early to declare that the Obama administration and the Hatoyama cabinet have successfully managed the transition from LDP to DPJ, but this week was clearly a step in...
View ArticleResponses to Hatoyama’s middle-power diplomacy
Author: Aurelia George Mulgan The recent piece by Tobias Harris on Hatoyama’s middle power diplomacy warrants some further discussion. Tobias Harris says: ‘Okada described Clinton as ‘not obstinate’...
View ArticleAustralia and Vietnam deepen their strategic relationship
Author: Le Hong Hiep, Vietnam National University The first Australia–Vietnam Joint Foreign Affairs Defence Strategic Dialogue was held in Canberra on 21 February 2012. While this is evidence of the...
View ArticleNorth Korea and the American response
Author: Stephen Costello, Washington Reading statements from the US and ROK administrations and the international press regarding recent North Korean declarations against South Korea, it seems that...
View ArticleJapanese middle-power diplomacy
Author: Yoshihide Soeya, Keio University The concept of a ‘middle power’ embraces three aspects of diplomacy: behaviour, status and strategy. A typical middle power, such as Australia, has struggled to...
View ArticleEmerging Indonesia and its global posture
Author: Awidya Santikajaya, ANU Indonesia is currently the world’s 16th-largest economy by GDP, and is predicted to become the seventh largest by 2030. Many have billed Indonesia as ‘a rising middle...
View ArticleAustralia and the G20
Author: Colin I. Bradford, Brookings Institution Australia assumes the presidency of the G20 Summit for 2014 at the end of this year. Already, there is great anticipation — Australia’s history of...
View ArticleProspects for Japan as a middle power
Author: Yoshihide Soeya, Keio University After World War II Japan virtually stepped down from the stage of power politics and accepted that two documents would be the pillars of its foreign policy: its...
View ArticleSouth Korea stuck between global ambitions and regional realities
Author: Sarah Teo, University of Sydney and RSIS South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se once again defended the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system on the...
View ArticleIs South Korea really a middle power?
Author: Jeffrey Robertson, ANU Google Scholar academic citations during 2008–18 for the terms ‘South Korea’ and ‘middle power’ return 4260 hits — nearly double that of ‘middle power’ and Mexico (2060),...
View ArticleSouth Korea’s missing middle power diplomacy
Author: Jeffrey Robertson, ANU These days it is inviting debate at best, and ridicule at worst, to say that South Korea is not a middle power. Fuelled by South Korean government campaigns, there is...
View ArticleMiddle powers after the middle-power moment
Author: Jeffrey Robertson, ANU Contemporary understanding of middle-power diplomacy is tied to a bygone era. Behavioural characteristics like activist diplomacy, coalition building, niche diplomacy and...
View ArticleAustralia as an Asian power leaves no room for economic fantasy
Authors: Peter Drysdale and Shiro Armstrong, ANU For Australia to join the great decoupling from China that some Americans and Australian security officials demand would bring devastating costs to...
View ArticleUS political decline means more ‘ninja diplomacy’
Author: James L Schoff, Carnegie Endowment Bitter and deepening political division in the United States is a serious challenge for Japanese foreign policy — a challenge that is likely to grow in the...
View ArticleMiddle powers can shape a new security framework
Author: Yoshihide Soeya, Keio University Day by day, the US–China confrontation is heating up. The trajectory now appears irreversible. The nations of the Indo-Pacific, Japan included, are sandwiched...
View ArticleMiddle power conundrum amid US–China rivalry
Author: Shin-wha Lee, Korea University The international community has faced an unprecedented social and economic shock due to three ‘big bangs’ — increasing US–China strategic competition, the fourth...
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