East Asia

The North Korean nuclear issue

In 1980, on the eve of the final decline of the Soviet-style centralized economies, North Korea - officially called the Democratic People’s Republic of...

Challenges and Opportunities for Russia after the North Korean Hydrogen Bomb Test

Even in situations where diplomatic negotiations over the North Korean nuclear weapons program are handled in a largely bilateral level, there is still often...

War transforms once more: The rise of a new type of warfare in the pacific

Klaouzevits, had warned us almost two centuries ago, war is a chameleon, it changes its form constantly, hiding his phase and transforming from one...

China’s Insecurity

China is one of the major global powers in the world, and its economy is the second largest next to the US. However, its...

Beijing -Taipei Rapprochement or Rhetoric

Having series of conflicts, crisis and tensions in Taiwan Strait, it seems land bodies around the blue water are willing to forge a peace...

Diplomatic Duplicity: China and Nuclear Non-proliferation

China’s application of non-proliferation controls has been the subject of intense and ongoing criticism from the West, yet it has continued to be allowed...

EU-China Cooperation – Assessment of Key Policy Areas

This paper has a general and also a sectoral angle to analyse EU-China relations. Apart from putting this relationship into a general historical and...

China: Team Players or Team Captains?

As China, projected to be the dominant state of the next century, continues to grow exponentially, many regional and global powers are concerned about...

Problems of Japan

Based on the World Health Organization (WHO) every year natural disasters kill around 90.000 people and effect close to 160 million people worldwide. ...

The new world order and China’s role in it

Thirty years ago China's share of world trade hovered below 1% but has increased more than tenfold since. Every year since the turn of...

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