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At a Korea Economic Institute seminar last week, I had the pleasure of running into Gil Rozman, the leading sociologist in the country working on the international relations of Northeast Asia. I had missed the fact that he has taken over an editorial role at The Asan Forum, an online resource on the region that is celebrating its first anniversary (it is published bi-monthly). The journal is organized around topical Special Forums, and includes periodic country reports on and from the region. From a scan of past content, a particular feature of the journal is a strong focus on historical and cultural background to current conflicts; it has particularly strong coverage of ideological and history wars. Contributors include an extraordinarily strong list of writers from both sides of the Pacific.
Among the Korean content of interest to this blog:
- A special forum from last September-October on strategic thinking on North Korea, with country reports on the ROK (Lee Chung Min), Japan (Sheila Smith), Russia (Alexander Lukin) and China (Cheng Xiaohe).
- Bob Einhorn on the impasse over the US-ROK Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement.
- A number of pieces in the January-February issue on Iran-North Korea parallels and lessons.
- Pieces by Sheila Smith, Fuji Kiichi and Lee Chung Min on President Obama's Asia trip.
