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Alain Guidetti: Web-Editorial: Asia-Pacific in 2013: A New Political Landscape?

Recent elections in the United States, China, Japan and the Republic of Korea brought new Administrations to power in early 2013. Though it is too early to make meaningful prognostics as regards their impact on the fragile regional stability, the incumbent leaderships will undoubtedly shape a new political landscape in the Asia-Pacific. In particular, they may impact some of the most sensitive regional issues, from the sovereignty dispute in the China Seas to the acute tensions between China and...

07.06.2013

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Paul Richardson: Russia’s balancing role in the Asia-Pacific

Globalization and geopolitics are the two defining features of contemporary international relations. Yet there exists a fundamental tension between these two processes - one refers to a deepening and broadening flow of trade, goods, people, and information; the other to exclusive political and military control over space. These competing characteristics of global politics are coming into particularly sharp focus in the Asia-Pacific, especially in the case of the South China Sea. Today, around half...

19.05.2013

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