2013MAR27

Issue Briefs

X-Events and Social Processes How Human Systems Collapse-and Are Reborn

By John Casti

Human-caused events leading to great social damage should be seen as being as much an opportunity as a problem.

Tags : Assmilation, Complexity, Fukushima, Japan, John Casti, X-events

2012NOV21

Issue Briefs

To Apologize and To Forgive: Lessons for Asia from Europe’s Struggle with History

By Thomas U. Berger, Bong Youngshik

Improved Japanese-Korean relations can provide the kernel around which a truly integrated East Asia can form.

Tags : Comfort Women, Dokdo, Europe, Germany, Guilt, History, Japan, reconciliation, Regional Issue, Thomas Rerger

2012OCT22

Issue Briefs

[Issue Brief No. 31] Ten Foreign Policy Issues for the Next South Korean Administration

By Troy Stangarone

While there has been little debate on foreign policy to […]

Tags : alliance, China, cooperation, Economic Policy, foreign policy, Japan, Middle East, trade, US

2012OCT09

Past Events

The ‘Comfort Women’ issue: Is there solution?

The Asan Institute for Policy Studies hosted the A […]

Tags : Comfort Women, Imperialist Japan, Japan, Japanese military, ROK-Japan relations

2012MAY10

Past Events

Asan Roundtable with the National War College

On May 8, 2012, the Asan Institute for Policy Studies h […]

Tags : Asan Roundtable, China, Hahm Chaibong, Japan, National War College, Northeast Asia, Sino-Japanese War

2012MAR08

Issue Briefs

[Issue Brief No. 19] Japan’s Border Disputes: Dokdo at the Center of Bigger Things

By Alexis Dudden

Regardless of whether the European Union (EU) is a good […]

Tags : Alexis Dudden, disputes, Dokdo, international law, Japan

2011DEC01

Past Events

Alexis Dudden, ″Island Problems in Northeast Asia″

13th Asan Dosirak Series with Alexis Dudden, Professor of History at the University of Connecticut

Tags : Alexis Dudden, Asan Dosirak Series, border disputes, China, EEZ, extended continental shelf, foreign policy, island problems, Japan, Japanese politics, Northeast Asia, San Francisco Treaty, South Korea, territorial issues, UNCLOS

2011NOV13

Past Events

Japan in Crisis: What Will It Take for Japan to Rise Again?

[Asan Japan Conference] “Japan in Crisis: What Wi […]

Tags : Asan Japan Conference, crisis, Japan, normal state

2011OCT03

Past Events

Asan Plenum 2011: ″Our Nuclear Future″

Asan Plenum 2011:  “Our Nuclear Future& […]

Tags : Asan Plenum, deterrence, disarmament, Fukushima nuclear crisis, Japan, Korea, Korean Peninsula, nonproliferation, North Korea, nuclear security, nuclear weapons, peaceful use

2011JUL20

Issue Briefs

[Issue Brief No. 13] Lessons from Fukushima: A New ″Carrot & Stick″ Approach to Nuclear Safety

By Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress

Introduction While the Fukushima Daiichi reactor crisis […]

Tags : Frenc Dalnoki-Veress, Fukukshima Daiichi, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear power plant, nuclear safety, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company)