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The theme of this year's publication is: "Asia at a Tipping Point: Korea, The Rise of China, and the Impact of Leadership Transitions"

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Asia at a Tipping Point: Korea, The Rise of China, and the Impact of Leadership Transitions This PDF is the full publication and contains all of the following sections: KEI Board of Directors KEI Advisory Council Preface Download PDF here Political Change in 2010-2012 and... Friday, June 15, 2012 - 1:26pm	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Gilbert Rozman	Download 5.04 MB
Political Change in 2010-2012 and Regional Cooperation Centered on the Korean Peninsula The year 2012 may be determinative in transforming the leadership that will decide the fate of the hexagonal maneuvering over the North Korean nuclear threat and the prospects for reunification.... Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 1:23pm	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Chung Jae-ho, Gilbert Rozman, Jack Pritchard, Kazuhiko Togo, L. Gordon Flake	Download 5.4 MB
Security Challenges on the Korean Peninsula North Korea poses the most serious security challenges for South Korea and Japan that they have faced in many decades as well as formidable challenges for the United States, and it is prompting China... Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 1:21pm	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Andrew Scobell, Narushige Michshita, Stephen Blank, Taeho Kim	Download 5.39 MB
Sociological Processes and Regional Community Formation One of the requirements for an East Asian Community, the agreed objective of regionalism, is the formation of social networks that forge trust and a sense of common purpose and identity. China, Japan... Monday, June 11, 2012 - 12:00pm	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Gilbert Rozman, Leif-Eric Easley, Sharon Yoon	Download 3.1 MB
TPP or ASEAN+3: Alternative Plans for Asian Regionalism and Free Trade Pacts Korea is on the front line between two contrasting proposals for regionalism based on economic integration. On the one side is the Chinese effort to establish an exclusive economic bloc in East Asia... Sunday, June 10, 2012 - 12:00pm	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Edward J. Lincoln, Jeong Hyung-gon, Peter A. Petri	Download 5.69 MB
Leadership Changes and South Korea’s China Policy Changes in political leadership are often associated with readjustments or reversals of policy, the impact of which can be both wide-ranging in scope and long-lasting in duration. Foreign policy,... Saturday, June 9, 2012 - 10:54am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Chung Jae-ho	Download 5.16 MB
North Korean Politics and China The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on December 17, 2011 has prematurely set in motion the leadership changes that were anticipated in 2012. To be sure, a leadership change in North Korea in... Friday, June 8, 2012 - 11:46am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Jack Pritchard, L. Gordon Flake	Download 5.19 MB
Japanese Politics, the Korean Peninsula, and China The year 2011 closed with several symbolic events in predicting Japan’s relations with the Korean peninsula. When President Lee Myung-bak held summit talks with Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko on... Friday, June 8, 2012 - 10:58am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Kazuhiko Togo	Download 5.14 MB
Chinese Politics and the Korean Peninsula Leadership has great bearing on the way the states active in Northeast Asia address sensitive questions related to the Korean peninsula. How should the shared goal of denuclearization of... Friday, June 8, 2012 - 10:57am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Gilbert Rozman	Download 5.14 MB
The View from China It has become conventional wisdom in recent years to characterize the PRC as an “assertive” power. Since 2008, many commentators and analysts insist that China has become... Friday, June 8, 2012 - 10:56am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Andrew Scobell	Download 5.26 MB
The View from Russia At a Russo-Korean summit in August 2011 Kim Jong-il announced his willingness to resume the Six-Party Talks without preconditions, i.e. no denuclearization or apologies. He also accepted Moscow... Friday, June 8, 2012 - 10:55am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Stephen Blank	Download 5.22 MB
Japan’s Response to Nuclear North Korea When scholars and commentators discuss Japan’s response to nuclear-armed North Korea, many jump to the conclusion that Japan will start thinking about arming itself with nuclear weapons while... Friday, June 8, 2012 - 10:54am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Narushige Michshita	Download 5.29 MB
The View from South Korea Change over continuity is now the tenor of the times on the Korean peninsula and beyond. For one thing, the year 2012—dubbed “Super Year”—has begun with election-year politics... Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 11:52am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Kim, Taeho	Download 5.25 MB
South Korean National Identity Gaps with China and Japan Read the Chinese Internet and mainstream publications, and you will find virulent charges against South Korean attitudes toward China.1 Peruse even a small sample of a vast outpouring of Japanese... Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 11:51am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Gilbert Rozman	Download 5.29 MB
Diverging Trajectories of Trust in Northeast Asia: South Korea’s Security Relations with Japan and China Most studies of contemporary Northeast Asian security focus on the U.S. interaction with China, Japan or South Korea and are concerned with aspects of national power.1 The present chapter takes a... Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 11:50am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Leif-Eric Easley	Download 5.28 MB
A Cognitive Approach to Ethnic Identity Construction in the Korean Enclave in Beijing With increasing economic interdependence between South Korea and the PRC since the 1990s, in recent years, over two million South Koreans are reported to cross the sea for tourism and employment... Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 11:48am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Sharon Yoon	Download 5.29 MB
The U.S. Approach to Regional Trade Agreements Involving East Asia The U.S. government has had a long and convoluted approach to the issue of bilateral or regional trade agreements involving East Asian countries. This paper focuses on three key aspects of... Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 11:47am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Edward J. Lincoln	Download 5.44 MB
South Korea: Which Way Will it Go on Asian Integration? Since 1990, Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs), including Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Customs Unions, have spread rapidly on the basis of the WTO system that was launched in 1995; 224 FTAs were... Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 11:45am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Hyung-gon, Jeong	Download 2.85 MB
Competing Templates in Asia Pacific Economic Integration Nearly two decades have passed since the last major multilateral trade agreements were concluded in 1993—a gap already longer than any since the GATT/WTO system emerged in 1948. Action on trade... Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 11:42am	Publication Type: Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012, Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies Author(s): Peter A. Petri	Download 5.45 MB