2025FEB05

Issue Briefs

Prospects for the U.S. National Security Policies in Trump’s Second Term and the Realignment of the ROK-U.S. Alliance

By Yang Uk

[Issue Brief Executive Summary] Yang Uk

Tags : MAGA, NATO, ROK-U.S. Alliance, SMA, South Korea, Trump, U.S. Presidential Election, USFK

2024OCT08

Issue Briefs

Implications of the DPRK-Russia “Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership”

By Cha Du Hyeogn

[Issue Brief Executive Summary] Cha Du Hyeogn

Tags : DPRK-Russia Treaty, Kim Jong-un, MDZ, NATO, NLL, ROK - U.S, ROK-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty

2024OCT07

Issue Briefs

Shigeru Ishiba’s New Cabinet’s Foreign and Security Policy and the Prospects for Korea-Japan Relations

By Choi Eunmi

[Issue Brief Executive Summary] Choi Eunmi

Tags : historical disputes, Korea-Japan relations, LDP, NATO, Shigeru Ishiba

2024AUG28

Blog/Op-ed

[The Chosun Ilbo Op-ed] The Ulchi Freedom Shield Exercise Should Include A Training Against North Korea’s ‘Nuclear Shadow’ Provocations (August 28)

By Choi Kang

CHOI Kang, President

Tags : Donald Trump, KAMD, Mutually Assured Destruction, NATO, North Korea, ROK - U.S, tactical nuclear weapons, UFS

2024AUG26

Issue Briefs

Europe’s Defense Revival: What’s at Stake for South Korea

By Francesca Frassineti

[Issue Brief] Francesca Frassineti

Tags : defense exports, Defense industry, EU-ROK strategic partnership, Europe-ROK defense engagement, NATO, Poland, ROK defense ecosystem

2024AUG13

Blog/Op-ed

[The Dong-a Ilbo Op-ed] Crisis of U.S. Democracy Shakes the Liberal International Order

By Choi Kang

CHOI Kang, President

Tags : Donald Trump, liberal international order, NATO, Republican Party, U.S., U.S. Democracy, U.S. isolationism

2024JUN17

Blog/Op-ed

[The Chosun Ilbo Op-ed] It Is Time to Establish an Asian Version of NATO (June 17)

By Choi Kang

CHOI Kang, President

Tags : China, East Asia, IPTO, Japan, NATO, North Korea, Nuclear Planning Group, Trump, UNSC

2024MAR27

Issue Briefs

Comparing Allied Public Confidence in U.S. Extended Nuclear Deterrence

By Peter K. Lee, Kang Chungku

[Issue Brief] Peter K. Lee, Kang Chungku

Tags : B61, NATO, NCG, North Korea, nuclear deterrence, ROK, ROK - U.S, SNOWCAT, SSBN, U.S.

2024MAR11

Blog/Op-ed

[The Dong-a Ilbo Op-ed] Leveraging Naval Shipbuilding In ROK-US Defense Cost-sharing Talks (March 7)

By Choi Kang

CHOI Kang, President

Tags : Camp Humphreys, cost-sharing, Indo-Pacific, NATO, ROK-US Defense, South Korea, Trump

2024FEB27

Issue Briefs

Competing Great Power Coalitions

[Issue Brief] The Asan Institute for Policy Studies

Tags : “Global South”, APEC, ASEAN, coalition building, CPTPP, G7 Hiroshima Summit, MENA, NATO, Quad, RCEP, U.S.-China Strategic Competition, Ukraine—Russia, Xi Jinping