Asia-Pacific Not quite in Asia: Australia’s relationship with Asian football February 23, 2020 0 Picture Credit: ‘DSC06216’ by Nasya Bahfen/flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Andy Fuller. The recent visit of Bali United to play against Melbourne Victory in the…
Asia-Pacific Pyongyang’s cycle of provocation and negotiation: A dispassionate analysis October 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: Pyongyang by Jen Morgan/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Nah Liang Tuang and Shawn Ho. In a recent commentary entitled ‘Handshakes and Missiles:…
China The Sino-Russian Partnership and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis June 21, 2019 0 Written by Elizabeth Wishnick. Image Credit: Tri-Border area by Caitriana Nicholson/Flickr, License: CC BY-SA 2.0. This brief outlines Chinese and Russian interests in North Korea, examines how…
Asia Russian Diplomacy: rather a bad peace than a good quarrel June 11, 2019 0 Written by Olga Krasnyak. Image Credit: 11th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Rovaniemi by Ulkoministeriö/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Russia’s aspirations and diplomatic engagements in…
Asia American distrust vis-à-vis North Korea’s desperation and dismal reputation: A poor negotiating cocktail May 13, 2019 0 Written by Liang Tuang Nah. Image Credit: North Korea - Flag by Roman Harak/Flickr, License CC BY-SA 2.0. Following the failure of the second summit between…
North Korea What influences South Korean perceptions of (re)unification? April 29, 2019 0 Written by Timothy S. Rich and his students Andi Dahmer and Kaitlyn Bison. Public opinion research on Korean unification consistently finds clear majorities in favour of (re)unification.…
North Korea The Hanoi Summit: Ruined by over-ambitious hard bargaining? March 21, 2019 0 Written by Liang Tuang Nah. From 27–28 February 2019, US President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Chairman Kim Jong-un in Vietnam's capital Hanoi…
Asia-Pacific The illusion of personal diplomacy: Can Trump outsmart Kim in Hanoi after disappointment in Singapore? February 27, 2019 0 Written by Peter J. Li. The U.S.-North Korea (officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK) relations are arguably the most intractable of America’s foreign…
North Korea North Korean denuclearisation: Verification in a quid pro quo framework February 19, 2019 0 Written by Nah Liang Tuang. Apparent significant progress in North Korean denuclearisation should be treated with cautious optimism. If Pyongyang's sincerity can be verified, there…
China President Trump, China has probably done all it can on North Korea – the ball’s in your court now December 3, 2018 0 Written by Gregory J. Moore. Despite the hoopla and high expectations surrounding the meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore earlier this year,…
