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Salvaging Negotiations: Where We Go From Here
By Agus P. Sari

While it is tempting to describe the Copenhagen climate change conference as a failure, especially given the lack of political leadership and the failure of diplomacy to produce the expected outcome, the accord that emerged from the conference still succeeded in sending important messages about the battle against climate change..

Nearing the Tipping Point: The Failure to Find a Way Back
By Yurika Ayukawa

The conference was a total failure. Even the heads of state could not agree on the critical issues to save the planet. What was expected was a binding legal agreement that would set ambitious targets for emissions reductions from individual countries.

Chung-in Moon and David Plott

For decades, the vocabulary used to describe Asia’s torrid economic growth has been plucked from a dictionary of the divine or the language of myth. The region’s success over the past 50 years in lifting so..

Taking Engagement Seriously:
Why Obama Should Honor His Campaign Pledges
By Mel Gurtov

When US President Barack Obama was campaigning for office, engaging enemies was a cardinal element of his foreign policy platform. So much so that candidate Hillary Clinton criticized him for being naïve about Iran and other “rogue states.” But Obama persisted – rightly, in my view – and engagement found its place in the professed foreign policy of the new administration.

Reflections on a Summit
By Chung-in Moon

As a special delegate to both the 2000 and 2007 summits between North and South Korea, the first such meetings ever held on the divided peninsula, I was fortunate to witness the changes in North-South relations over those seven years as reflected in the ...

A crisis in the North Korean leadership?
By Andrei Lankov

Kookmin University and ANU Over the past year or so something strange has begun to happen in Pyongyang. The North Korean leadership has taken some actions that have clearly da...

In the print edition of Vol.4. No 4 (Winter 2010) of Global Asia, the description of Norichika Kanie on page 17 incorrectly refers to him as "She" rather than "He." We regret the error, which has been corrected on our website.

		Nothing short of a paradigm shift will stop Asia’s powering growth from eventually tipping the world into a catastrophic spiral of climate change. From governments to businesses to civic groups to individuals, Asia must embrace a new path to green growth to save the planet.

Delicately Poised:
Are China and The US Heading For Conflict?
By Jia Qingguo & Richard Rosecrance

As the balance of power between China and the US, the world’s sole superpower, narrows with China’s rise, many observers fret that armed conflict could ensue.

Bloodless Revolution:
How the DPJ’s Win Will Change Japan
By Cheol Hee Park

For most of the past 60 years, one party has ruled Japan. In August 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan finally ended the Liberal Democratic Party’s stranglehold.

Japan, the Indispensable Power in Northeast Asia
By Peter Van Ness

With the rise of China in recent decades, it has become all too customary among many observers to write off Japan as a spent force in the region.

North Korea: It’s Time to Start Talking
By Edward J. Baker

US Ambassador Stephen Bosworth’s recent visit to North Korea may herald a new, less confrontational approach by the administration of President Barack Obama to the regime in Pyongyang.

The Emergence Of Regulatory Regionalism
By Kanishka Jayasuriya

Much of the debate about regional integration in Asia has focused on institutional frameworks that promote trade liberalization and the creation of an Asian community.

		The Tianxia System: World Order In A Chinese Utopia Reviewed By Feng Zhang

		As China rapidly moves to center stage in world politics, the question of this emerging superpower’s international purpose and foreign policy is becoming more important than ever. What is China’s international mission, and how might it realize its agenda? Does it even have a blueprint for action? The Chinese government’s official line is often very vague on these questions.

Global Asia: Korean President Lee Myung-bak [Winter 2010]

SEOUL, Korea (January 2010)—Republic of Korea President Lee Myung-bak called on governments, businesses and individuals around the world to embrace the concept of “green growth” in order to battle climate change and introduce a new paradigm for economic growth, in an article published in the latest issue of Global Asia.

“Green growth is about addressing climate change in an aggressive manner while, at the same time, making the green technologies and industries needed to combat climate change the driver of national economic growth.