Balancing domestic expectations and delicate relations with neighbours while trying to deal with North Korea’s race to become a nuclear power will make for a challenging five-year term.
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A scholar who has profiled the likes of Saddam Hussein and Vladimir Putin says there is a method to understanding the madness.
Seoul’s Blue House looks set to host its first liberal president in a decade.
Next week, Malcolm Turnbull will have his first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump in New York.
The key question is whether North Korea does have nuclear weapons that it can readily use against the United States and its regional allies, South Korea and Japan.
As North Korea continues to antagonise the US and its allies, the prospect of war hangs in the air.
America’s relations with Russia and China are now mired in angst, uncertainty and mutual suspicion.
South Korea must seek to strike a balance in its respective strategic and economic relationships.
The message from the US vice-president was that the US would stay the course and, if anything, act more assertively in preserving stability in the Asia-Pacific region.
Any intensification of the military tension between North Korea and the United States would be calamitous, and requires a patient, innovative and informed approach by policymakers.
In a speech to the National Press Club on Thursday, Gareth Evans lambasted Donald Trump and called on Australia to become more self-reliant.
Regardless of how the US sending an aircraft carrier group to the Korean Peninsula plays out, the international community will ultimately have to accept and learn to manage a nuclear North Korea.
A troublesome ‘little brother’ is exhausting the sympathy on which it heavily relies.
The treaty to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons has been exceptionally successful. Only nine states have them. Now, efforts are underway to completely rid the world of them.
The international community – and the U.S. and China in particular – should give serious thought to what might be North Korea’s cyberattack equivalent of a nuclear weapons test.
North Korea has been on a long march to acquire a usable nuclear weapon. Since 2011, when Kim Jong-un replaced his father at the head of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the pace of that march…
Beyond her own personal humiliation, the ramifications of Park’s fall are already reverberating from domestic South Korean politics into the fraught geopolitics of Northeast Asia.
Uncertainty persists about what “America First” will mean for US-Asia policy, and the Secretary of State’s recent tour of the region leaves us none the wiser.
Namibia contributes a positive image to Africa in governance and other indicators. But the reality for most of the country’s 2.3 million people isn’t quite as rosy.
Tensions in Asia may soon boil over. If U.S. leaders fail to seek pathways to peace, the consequences may be grim, warns former National Security Council member.
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Reader in International Relations, Aston University
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Tony Walker é um amigo do The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University., La Trobe University
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Reader in Asia Pacific Studies, Co-Director of the International Institute of Korean Studies, University of Central Lancashire
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Migration & Social Inclusion Researcher, University of Sheffield
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Visiting Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Faculty (Japan Campus), Temple University
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Professor in Korean Studies, Tufts University
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Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
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Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Dalhousie University
