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OCT 14, 2015 • Article
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Prospects and Challenges
After nearly five years of difficult talks, 12 Pacific Rim states have finalized the text of the TPP, a free-trade agreement that has the potential to ...
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NOV 5, 2015 • Article
Jiyoung Song on Asia and the West: "Whose Century?"
Is this the end of the American Century, the beginning of an Asian Century, or none of the above? Is there a model for the ...
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JAN 21, 2016 • Article
Rethinking U.S. Strategy Towards China
"To improve U.S. policy towards China to avoid, and yet be prepared for, conflict requires going beyond simplistic applications of international relations theory. It ...
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JAN 21, 2016 • Article
The Concept of Humane Democracy and a New Global Order
"Differing from liberal democracy whose political goal is rather negatively conceived in a sense of protecting individual rights, the concept of humane democracy is envisioned ...
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JAN 22, 2016 • Article
The Reduction of Mass Atrocity Crimes in Southeast Asia, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and the Individual Responsibility to Protect (IR2P)
For a variety of reasons, Southeast Asia has experienced a significant reduction in mass atrocity crimes in the last 30 years. Frank suggests that R2P ...
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JAN 22, 2016 • Article
Competing Moral Claims over the Nuclear Power-Weapons Crossover
"Although the military–industry complex remains resilient, the only ultimate solution to nuclear danger and the best disaster prevention is a nuclear-free world in both ...
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JAN 12, 2016 • Article
The Death of a Pacifist?: On Akiyuki Nosaka's Death
The Japanese writer Akiyuki Nosaka died last month. He is best known, internationally, for his semi-autobiographical novel "A Grave of Fireflies," made famous by Studio ...
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JAN 26, 2016 • Article
The "Singapore School" of Asian Values: Down But Not Out?
When the Asian financial crisis of 1997 blunted the so-called "Asian Economic Miracle," critics--many Westerners, but also Asians tired of the tendentious claims of their cultural ...