Korea’s role in the regional political games
The venerable public’s attention is drawn today to that part of the global political circus which features clowns in the form of cartoonish “Caliphates” and “Euro Maidans”. Their increasingly bloody acts hide the main event where the leading political...
Japan and the right to collective self-defence
On July 1, 2014, the Japanese Cabinet finally passed a new reinterpretation of Article 9 of the country’s constitution. It will now allow Japan to protect their allies from armed aggression as part of the collective self-defence principle. This thus opens...
Neutralism in modern conditions
Most people tend to take a neutral position in relation to the various parties who are embroiled in a conflict. Moreover, the very essence of neutrality can be of a different nature, i.e. one may walk past a street fight, stop and take a look or even attempt to intervene...
The Deteriorating Situation in the State of Jammu and Kashmir
The main outcome of the elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament, held throughout April and May 2014, was the triumph of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, and the crushing defeat of the Indian National Congress (INC. The latter is...
India's foreign policy under Narendra Modi
A change of power in one of the world's leading superpowers, as India will undoubtedly become, begs pertinent questions about whether it's possible to adjust the course of its foreign policy. If we can expect any changes at all in Indian foreign policy, what...
Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic “Partnership” – A New Global Game
The situation surrounding the creation of two of the largest integrated projects, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP remains unclear. This ambiguity stems from the fact that the very genesis of these...
Shinzo Abe tests the waters in Europe
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s European tour set to hit a number of countries along with the EU and NATO headquarters between May 1 and May 9, 2014 is an important stage in the “great maneuvers” currently unfolding as part of the new global game. Shinzo Abe’s...
Barack Obama’s Asia Tour
Barack Obama’s Asia tour, which took place from April 23-29, 2014, was planned in the autumn of last year. It was motivated by the general “shift to Asia” of key interests, as well as by the problematic provision of national security by the world’s leading superpower...
The Situation in Southeast Asia in light of the Crimean Crisis
The international political and expert community is just beginning to awake from the shock raised by the situation in Crimea. Independent of further development of the Ukrainian crisis on the whole, the Crimean situation in itself deserves scrutiny at political, diplomatic, military...
Political Maneuvering In Korean Peninsula Region
The Korean Peninsula, along with the South China Sea and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, remains one of the most sensitive zones in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR, which is turning into the center of gravity of a new global game. The latter mainly consists of a complex...
U.S. Foreign Policy: between Primarism and Retrenchmentism
A year ago there was held a remarkable discussion on this topic in the International Security Journal. It touched upon the “general line” of American Foreign Policy, which is often referred to in the U.S.A. as the “Great Strategy”. The topic itself...
The US and the Asia-Pacific: A "pivot-shift" in American foreign policy Part 3
With the beginning of President Barack Obama's second term, there have been attempts in the American foreign policy to "deceive" the bleak logic of the inevitable confrontation between the current global leader and...