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2026-03-24 The Indo-Pacific strategy just sank in Iran
Across the Eurasian continent, the balance between maritime attack and continental defense has shifted.
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2606-03-19 The zombie middle powers
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2606-03-19 The zombie middle powers
Albanese and Carney’s jump between support for the U.S. and middle power camaraderie showed that middle powers can be both dead and alive.
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2026-03-07 Seoul Watches THAAD Leave and Counts the Cost
Washington is reportedly moving missile defense platforms from South Korea to support the Israeli/US attack on Iran. As it does, Seoul is counting the…
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2026-02-28 Immediate middle power reactions to Iran strikes
Australia, South Korea, and Norway react to the Israeli/US attacks on Iran
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2026-02-26 Watching Uncle Sam from Seoul
Venezuela and now Iran are having an impact beyond their immediate regions
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2026-02-03 Middle powers in a crumbling order
The international order is a dry-stone wall. The great powers are the large structural stones and the middle powers are the chinking stones.
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2025-11-18 Seoul's quiet BRICS debate
A quiet but noticeable debate is beginning to surface in Seoul as to whether South Korea could get away with starting down the path towards BRICS
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2025-11-14 Seoul's strategic choices
Over the past week, subject to finalization of agreements, three more data points were added: OpCon transfer; nuclear submarines; and nuclear…
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2025-07-24 Vanity, phishing, and the North Korea watcher
Phishing is not just about technical intrusion. It’s about psychological manipulation
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2025-06-02 Manufacturing the next generation of North Korea watchers
When North Korea policy is shaped by echo chambers of trained consensus, it leaves no room for disruptive ideas
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2025-05-29 North Korea watcher cybersecurity best practice
Cybersecurity for the North Korea watcher is about adopting a disciplined, practice-based mindset
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2025-05-20 Why study North Korea
For small and medium-sized states like Australia or Canada, when it comes to deeply opaque regimes such as North Korea, pursuing direct analytical…
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2025-05-01 The narrowness of speculative fiction on Korea
The Korean War is the “Forgotten War,” and the peninsula remains stuck in a static conceptual role: a Cold War holdover, frozen in time
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2025-04-27 Storytelling in international relations
In international relations, the most influential book of the Cold War wasn’t a theoretical breakthrough - it was a pulp novel with a moral message
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2025-01-01 The Ugly American and Korea
Though the novel was set in the context of Southeast Asia during the Cold War, its insights into the importance of humility, cultural understanding, and…
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2024-12-20 Manspreading
Maybe on a Tuesday or a Wednesday, CNN replaces “Terror in Israel” with “Crisis Korea”...
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2606-03-19 The zombie middle powers
Albanese and Carney’s jump between support for the U.S. and middle power camaraderie showed that middle powers can be both dead and alive.
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2026-02-28 Immediate middle power reactions to Iran strikes
Australia, South Korea, and Norway react to the Israeli/US attacks on Iran
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2026-02-03 Middle powers in a crumbling order
The international order is a dry-stone wall. The great powers are the large structural stones and the middle powers are the chinking stones.
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2025-10-30 Zombie multilateralism The undead world of APEC
APEC has become a zombie. It moves, it speaks, it performs all the gestures of life — but its soul has gone.
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