[NK Commentary] Strategic Crossroads: South Korea`s Response to North Korea`s Diplomatic Moves in the Emerging "New Cold War" Era
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Chaesung Chun | 2024-04-15
Chaesung Chun, Chair of the EAI’s National Security Research Center and Professor at Seoul National University, examines the complex dynamics of the DPRK-China-Russia alliance, highlighting its inherent weaknesses. As North Korea advances its New Cold War diplomacy against the backdrop of the Ukraine-Russia War and U.S.-China rivalry, Chun explores the dilemma South Korea faces: should it consider the tripartite alliance sustainable, or see North Korea as potentially open to negotiations with the U.S. and ROK? While the outcome is uncertain, Chun emphasizes that South Korea must dissociate great power politics from nonproliferation efforts and foster a cooperative framework that will encourage DPRK to give up its nuclear arsenal and return to the negotiating table.
[ADRN Issue Briefing] Inside the Summit for Democracy: What’s Next?
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Asia Democracy Research Network | 2024-03-28
Ken Godfrey, the Executive Director of the European Partnership for Democracy (EPD), and Anthony Smith, the Chief Executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), assess the outcome of the third Summit for Democracy (S4D) and provide prospects for future engagements. The authors appreciate the summit’s resolutions to establish a secretariat, and point out that the summit’s effectiveness would be enhanced by the formulation of concrete policy commitments, ensuring a political impact resonating across regions and generations. They underscore the imperative of inclusive representation from all regions and diverse stakeholders to extend credibility and advocate for the establishment of a rich ecosystеm of analysis, debate, and initiatives in the periods between the Summits.
[NK Commentary] Evolution of Europe-North Korea Relations: From Active Engagement to Partial Rupture (2/2)
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Antoine Bondaz | 2024-03-25
Antoine Bondaz, Director of the Korea Program on Security and Diplomacy at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), examines the EU’s “critical engagement policy” with North Korea, initiated after the first nuclear crisis in 2006. Despite this policy causing a collapse in bilateral trade, the author underscores that European nations have consciously separated humanitarian aid from political agendas, allowing the EU to maintain an important intermediary role in international negotiations with the North Korean regime. However, Bondaz predicts that the rapid shifts in diplomatic priorities for both the EU and DPRK, influenced by geopolitical dynamics, render future political bilateral exchanges highly unlikely.

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[ADRN Issue Briefing] Post-Elections Analysis: Pakistan’s “New” Political Order Faces a Polycrisis
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[ADRN Issue Briefing] Post-Elections Analysis: Pakistan’s “New” Political Order Faces a Polycrisis
Zoha Waseem | 2024-03-21
The lead up to Pakistan’s 2024 elections was ridden with political instability. After Imran Khan’s ouster as prime minister in April 2022, a caretaker government significantly delayed holding elections, allowing for the creation of an uneven playing field for Khan’s party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) (Ku...
[ADRN Working Paper] Horizontal Accountability in Asia: Country Cases (Final Report Ⅰ)
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[ADRN Working Paper] Horizontal Accountability in Asia: Country Cases (Final Report Ⅰ)
Asia Democracy Research Network | 2024-03-05
  In 2022, Asia Democracy Research Network (ADRN) selected horizontal accountability by the ability of state institutions to hold the executive branch accountable, and vertical accountability through elections, parties and citizens’ participation, as the requirements to accomplish robust and sustainable democracy i...
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[EAI International Conference] "Coping with Security Challenges in the Post COVID-19 World" Session 4: U.S.-China Strategic Competition and Economic Security
| 2023-12-18
East Asia Institute (EAI) hosted an international conference titled “Coping wth Security Challenges in the Post COVID-19 World: Climate Change, Pandemic, Economic and Cyberspace Security” on December 11 and 12. During the session “U.S.-China Strategic Competition and Economic Security,” three presentation...

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