On October 3 Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, had a meeting with Park Ro-byug, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Russia.
The following issues were covered during the meeting: Northeast Asia and particularly Korean Peninsula security issues; multilateral military and political confidence-building system of measures in the North Pacific Ocean region; possible change in the role of the USA in terms of the upcoming presidential ...
... NobusukeKishi, the grandfather of Shinzō Abe and crucial landmark for the current head of the Japanese government. Until recently, Southeast Asia had not been a region of focus for the US-Japan relationship, the report reads. Since the end of the Cold War, Northeast Asia has remained Japan’s main security perimeter (we will have more on the regional pattern later), and the DPRK and PRC were considered the principal threats. The importance of Southeast Asia for both Japan and the US remained mostly ...
On October 6, 2015, Russian International Affairs Council, the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (
KIEP
) and
Carnegie Moscow Center
held roundtable "The Rise of Eurasia and Future Russian-South Korean Cooperation" with assistance of the ROK Embassy to Moscow. Timed to the 25th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and the Republic of Korea, the event offered a series of reports and presentations by diplomats, government officials, experts...
On September 7, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council held the presentation of the Russian-South Korean working paper "
Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia
" authored by Russian Ambassador Gleb Ivashentsov and Director of Institute for
Russian
, East European and Eurasian Studies at Seoul National University Beom-Shik Shin
.
The event was attended by diplomats, government officials,...
Working Paper 25/2015
In 2015 Russia and South Korea celebrate the 25th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations. Much has been accomplished, but significant potential for collaboration in Northeast Asia to address new and traditional threats remains untapped.
In this analytical paper experts of the Russian International Affairs
Council (RIAC) and Institute for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (
IREEES
), Seoul National University ...
... Studies at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies.
The debate focused on the inter-Korean relations, security and nonproliferation in the Korean Peninsula, approaches of great powers to Korean settlement, and the impact of global changes on situation in Northeast Asia.
... zone’”
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. The situation is unfolding against a backdrop of a quantitative and qualitative improvement in US-Chinese relations, as the two countries’ combined account for almost one-third of the world's GDP.
Security and stability in Northeast Asia involves a balance between mutual deterrence of Japan-US military alliance and the individual military capabilities of Russia and China. Two factors could theoretically undermine this stability, namely changes in the military potential ...
RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and RIAC expert Yan Vaslavsky took part in the international conference “Development of the Russian Far East and Search of a New Paradigm for International Cooperation in Northeast Asia” sponsored by the Consortium on International Cooperation in Northeast Asia and held in Seoul, South Korea, on the basis of Seoul National University.
Dr. Timofeev’s address was focused on prospects for modernization of Russia’s ...