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2026-03-24 The Indo-Pacific strategy just sank in Iran
2606-03-19 The zombie middle powers
2026-03-16 Thank you for being an Ironclad-Alliance™ level subscriber
2026-03-07 Seoul Watches THAAD Leave and Counts the Cost
2026-02-28 Immediate middle power reactions to Iran strikes
2026-02-26 Watching Uncle Sam from Seoul
2026-02-03 Middle powers in a crumbling order
2025-11-18 Seoul's quiet BRICS debate
2025-11-14 Seoul's strategic choices
2025-11-12 Those nukes are no longer about survival
2025-11-11 Seoul’s submarine scenarios
2025-10-30 Zombie multilateralism The undead world of APEC
2025-10-30 A tale of two trilaterals with Seoul sitting in the center
2025-10-27 South Korea, Canada, and a middle-power submarine Can Australia join?
2025-10-25 A circus and a summit Trump and Xi visit Lee
2025-10-23 APEC The curdled yogurt of middle power diplomacy
2025-10-16 Ukraine’s present and Seoul’s future
2025-10-13 Come to Seoul for the World Knowledge Forum!
2025-10-11 South Korea has missed the alternative media train
2025-10-09 A U.S. rationale for ending the alliance
2025-10-06 Australia, Korea, and the rise and fall of middle powers
2025-10-03 South Korea’s caution on Iran
2025-10-01 South Korea’s anti-China protests
2025-09-30 Another Trump-Kim summit Please no!
2025-09-22 Caught in a rip South Korea and the Taiwan question
2025-09-16 South Korea’s Sunshine Policy Rocky dreams, Death Wish reality
2025-09-13 Misunderstanding Seoul in Washington
2025-08-03 Korea shouldn’t celebrate on tariffs just yet
2025-08-02 Seoul’s pragmatic Palestine dance
2025-07-31 Foreign policy and neutral analysis online
2025-07-30 Trump’s tariffs on Brazil will temper Yoon prosecution
2025-07-29 The challenges to Korean conservatism
2025-07-28 Seoul summer lunchtime questions and BRICS
2025-07-24 Vanity, phishing, and the North Korea watcher
2025-07-22 It’s Groundhog Day again in Seoul
2025-07-20 In Seoul, conservatism equals pro-Americanism... still
2025-07-18 Australia and Korea playing knock and run between the U.S. and China
2025-07-15 South Korea’s post-American Finlandization
2025-07-13 THAAD boycotts versus Trump tariffs
2025-07-10 Worst case scenario for Lee visit to White House
2025-07-08 When empires fall Post-American Asia and South Korea
2025-07-06 President Lee and a late July summit with Trump
2025-07-03 South Korea’s fringe views on post-America Asia
2025-07-01 South Korea’s options in post-America Asia
2025-06-30 South Korea and Trump’s 5% defence spending demand
2025-06-26 Korean Peninsula nukes and more may be better
2025-06-24 South Korea’s turn from NATO
2025-06-23 Iran strike raises concerns in South Korea
2025-06-21 Strategic Flexibility excluded from Korea’s electoral discourse
2025-06-19 Trump, Iran, and Seoul’s steady, silent turn to self-reliance
2025-06-17 The liberal-democratic ephemera that was South Korea
2025-06-16 Strategic flexibility and Korea’s return to the frontlines of conflict
2025-06-11 South Korea’s early move on broadcasts demonstrates poor diplomatic advice
2025-06-10 Will geography determine South Korea’s future
2025-06-09 The pointlessness of North Korea policy
2025-06-09 South Korea’s social media problem
2025-06-05 The American left’s misguided crush on Lee Jae-myung
2025-06-04 South Korea needs a content strategy
2025-06-03 South Korea’s strategic futures between continental and maritime powers
2025-06-02 Manufacturing the next generation of North Korea watchers
2025-06-02 Fiction, foreign policy, and the tyranny of the plausible
2025-05-29 North Korea watcher cybersecurity best practice
2025-05-23 South Korea’s next president desperately needs a new foreign media strategy
2025-05-21 South Korea has no place for geopolitics in business schools
2025-05-20 Why study North Korea
2025-05-19 South Korea’s epistemic capture
2025-05-19 North Korea as a cybersecurity foil
2025-05-15 Electoral politics in South Korea’s presidential election
2025-05-13 Ten step plan to become a North Korea watcher
2025-05-12 Understanding continuity in South Korea’s foreign policy
2025-05-12 Algorithmic foreign policy influence
2025-05-09 Why the U.S. and NATO failed to secure South Korean support on Ukraine
2025-05-09 The international relations academic paper is dead
2025-05-09 Speculative fiction as a tool for rethinking policy on Korea
2025-05-09 East Asian scholars for hire
2025-05-09 A turning point in U.S. strategic thought on Asia
2025-05-07 Korea policy in the age of narcissism
2025-05-06 SK Telecom cyber attack implications remain unclear
2025-05-05 Supercharged phishing and the North Korea Watcher
2025-05-04 North Korea Watchers are just different
2025-05-02 South Korea’s nuclear energy industry secures ongoing support
2025-05-01 The narrowness of speculative fiction on Korea
2025-04-29 An international Commission on the Korean Peninsula
2025-04-28 Transactional diplomacy started in Seoul, not Washington
2025-04-27 Storytelling in international relations
2025-04-24 Trump tariff reversals a blow to American credibility in Korea
2025-04-23 Tariffs and an anti-American turn in South Korea
2025-04-23 Is South Korea’s democracy stronger after Yoon
2025-04-22 South Korea advances satellite and surveillance capabilities
2025-04-21 Korea and the worst possible timing to negotiate with Trump
2025-04-18 Will South Korea get a worse deal than Japan
2025-04-17 Japan’s one-theater proposal won’t fly in South Korea
2025-04-16 Anti-China sentiment in Seoul
2025-04-15 South Korea’s deeper democratic crisis lies in economic inequality
2025-04-15 Presidential candidates and Sejong City
2025-04-12 Koreans cautious about strategic flexibility
2025-04-10 China, Korea, Japan trilaterals
2025-04-08 South Korea’s coming chaebol turn to unification
2025-04-06 When states start acting like businesses
2025-04-04 South Korea faces significant challenges after Yoon removal
2025-04-02 Yoon’s impeachment verdict - another circus passing through Seoul
2025-04-01 The abrupt end to 75 years of U.S. policy on Korea
2025-03-20 South Korea will accept China’s dominance in the region
2025-03-19 Trump and South Korea’s political chaos
2025-03-17 South Korea to China and America I choose not to choose
2025-03-13 Australia in South Korea’s foreign policy circles
2025-03-10 The unravelling of the U.S. alliance with South Korea
2025-03-06 South Korea responds to U.S. tariffs
2025-03-06 Marginal increase doesn’t solve South Korea’s demographic crisis
2025-02-28 Is Sisyphus the North Korea watcher happy
2025-02-27 South Korea’s continuing political extremism
2025-02-25 Germany and Europe’s political divide as a lesson for Korea
2025-02-22 North Korean troops when the Ukraine conflict ends
2025-02-21 The star North Korea defector and formulaic narratives
2025-02-19 The American threat to South Korea’s conservatives
2025-02-19 Limited debate and extremist ideology clouds Korea’s position on Taiwan
2025-02-17 Gen-Z disaffection to increase as foreign investors enter rental market
2025-02-16 Tariffs present challenge to ROKUS relationship
2025-02-16 Rubio-Cho meeting highlights illusion of shared interests
2025-02-14 Korea, Japan, China foreign ministers meeting
2025-02-12 We are living in a simulation and Korea’s at the center
2025-02-10 South Korea’s household debt gangrene
2025-02-04 Humanities in the age of AI
2025-02-04 Current candidate choice augurs poorly for South Korea’s political future
2025-01-31 Trump’s press conference as a reminder of ‘fire and fury’
2025-01-31 South Korea’s tourisn and hospitality sector faces challenges
2025-01-30 South Korea’s perfect storm and no one’s at the helm
2025-01-24 Lies, damned lies, and South Korean opinion polls
2025-01-23 Trump and Korea back on the roller coaster
2025-01-21 Social media regulation on the political agenda
2025-01-07 The North Korea watcher ego trap
2025-01-06 North Korea watchers and insight peddlers
2025-01-01 The Ugly American and Korea
2024-12-28 The seven best books for Korea analysis
2024-12-28 Creativity in diplomatic analysis
2024-12-19 What if Korea had unified in 1950
2024-12-18 Academics and the competition for attention
2024-12-10 Korea watchers and nefarious state actors
2024-12-08 South Korea’s conservative party needs a new name
2024-12-07 Yoon’s foreign policy is dead in the water
2024-12-05 Shamanism and Korean politics Choosing a time for a coup
2024-12-04 The wildcard of an incompetent coup
2024-12-03 South Korea imposes martial law
2024-12-01 Korea’s Gen-Z and compulsory military service
2024-11-28 North Korea and the suicide drone
2024-11-26 South Korea the neo-mercantilist
2024-11-24 Yoon’s uneasy future with Trump
2024-11-24 Why non-Koreans can’t help but praise South Korea
2024-11-24 South Korea’s anxiety regarding Trump and North Korea
2024-11-22 Novelists in the situation room
2024-11-21 Empathetic reasoning in diplomatic analysis
2024-11-19 Institutionalizing the trilateral partnership
2024-11-17 South Korea broadens espionage laws
2024-11-16 The future of diplomacy in a Sino-centric world
2024-11-14 Public attitudes towards foreign policy
2024-11-13 Trump as a catalyst for populism in Korea
2024-11-12 South Korea as an easy target for Trump
2024-11-11 Trump won’t stop China taking Taiwan... or Korea
2024-11-11 South Korea’s presidential controversies pose risk
2024-11-11 South Korea’s nuclear weapons debate
2024-11-08 South Korea’s ambassadorial appointments
2024-11-07 North Korean balloons filled with money and porn
2024-11-05 South Korea’s demographic crisis
2024-11-04 South Korea’s public distrust of U.S. grows
2024-11-03 Thinking the unthinkable The collapse of the ROK-US alliance
2024-11-03 South and North Korea’s military support in Ukraine
2024-11-01 South Korea’s proposed foreign agents registration act
2024-10-31 The semiotics of foreign policy and diplomacy
2024-10-30 South Korea’s defense-industrial sites face sabotage risk
2024-10-29 AI redefines international relations teaching
2024-10-27 Time to roll out the North Korea coup speculation
2024-10-26 Reverse migration to impact politics
2024-10-25 What does Kim Jong-un read at night
2024-10-25 Korea’s folktale foreign policy
2024-10-24 Yoon’s foreign policy failure with Ukraine
2024-10-23 South Korea’s academic kompromat
2024-10-22 South Korea and anti-discrimination
2024-10-22 South Korea adds small modular reactors (SMRs) to energy plan
2024-10-21 The making of a North Korea expert
2024-10-21 South Koreans express fear regarding Ukraine disinformation
2024-10-17 South Korea’s political extremism
2024-10-15 South Korea’s military deployments
2024-10-15 North Korea provocations
2024-10-14 MIKTA’s declining fortunes
2024-10-13 South Korea’s public diplomacy rethink
2024-10-12 Korea, Japan, U.S. trilateral still faces obstacles
2024-10-11 Australia-Korea relations and critical minerals
2024-10-09 North Korean soldiers in Ukraine
2024-10-09 Evacuating Seoul when the sh!t hits the fan
2024-10-08 South Korea’s diplomacy hides cybersecurity weakness
2024-10-07 Who are the pop-up North Korea experts
2024-10-06 South Korea and Taiwan Strait FONOPs
2024-10-04 The old man and the Incheon stream
2024-10-04 India - the missing anchor in South Korea’s Indo-Pacific strategy
2024-10-03 South Korea and NATO
2024-10-02 Gen-Z in South Korea’s political landscape
2024-10-02 Becoming a diplomat in South Korea
2024-10-01 What would happen if a nuclear bomb hit Seoul
2024-09-30 South Korea’s shift towards the U.S
2024-09-30 Seoul’s Armed Forces Day
2024-09-28 Do Koreans know what an echidna is
2024-09-28 Diplomacy, multiculturalism, and South Korea
2024-09-27 The Rise of single-person households in South Korea
2024-09-24 Yoon’s unification policy requires further time
2024-09-24 Seoul’s creative stagnation in foreign policy
2024-09-20 South Korea’s constitutional reform debate to intensify
2024-09-16 South Korea and lethal aid to Ukraine
2024-09-14 South Korea’s foreign affairs and presidential popularity
2024-09-14 South Korea’s forced adoption scandal
2024-09-12 The Incheon Port Road
2024-09-09 What makes a good foreign policy analyst
2024-09-07 Koreans are buying gold
2024-09-02 The Washington blob and Korea analysis
2024-08-28 Recruiting friendlies The gray areas between diplomacy and espionage
2024-08-28 Recruiting friendlies - Korea RASCALS
2024-08-27 Dancing in-sync or solo Korea and the US election
2024-08-24 Youth attitudes to South Korea’s foreign policy
2024-08-20 South Korea and feminist foreign policy
2024-08-20 South Korea and fears of abandonment
2024-08-20 Seoul’s foreign policy conferences
2024-08-18 Political polarization and South Korea’s foreign policy
2024-08-15 South Korea’s diplomatic training needs a shake-up
2024-07-03 NATO Summit will highlight political risk in Yoon Administration
2024-07-02 Irrational pursuits of nuclear weapons
2024-06-26 South Korea’s nuclear weapons hold a place in the national consciousness
2024-06-15 Koreas policy Sorting fact with fiction
2024-04-10 Is South Korea’s Indo-Pacific strategy a lame duck
2023-12-17 The Yoon Administration’s “Audacious Initiative”
2023-10-07 South Korea as a middle power assumptions and misunderstandings
2023-10-01 South Korea and the middle power revival school
2023-09-26 South Korea and the study of middle powers
2023-08-16 Camp David and South Korea’s Indo-Pacific strategy
2023-07-15 Korea-India bilateral relations
2023-06-06 Understanding South Korea’s National Security Strategy
2023-06-06 The meaningless middle powers
2023-04-18 Middle power South Korea and Ukraine
2023-04-16 Kazakhstan in the middle
2023-04-11 The South Korean nuclear threat
2023-03-24 Advice to a young North Korea watcher
2023-01-08 Future proof South Korea’s Indo-Pacific strategy
2022-11-27 The middle power’s last hurrah
2022-10-28 Can South Korea be a nuclear middle power
2022-10-24 What to expect after a North Korean nuclear test
2022-10-18 South Korea’s nuclear debate
2022-08-21 Australia-Korea relations are about commerce, not strategy
2022-04-27 South Korea’s Yoon Return of the prodigal son
2022-04-11 Yoon as a ‘window of opportunity’ in Australia-Korea relations
2022-02-23 Foreign policy and South Korea’s presidential elections
2022-02-22 Australia’s China blinders on Korea
2021-12-14 Australia’s relationship with South Korea
2021-11-19 Time for South Korea to abandon the middle power moniker
2021-11-01 Australia, Korea, and sixty years of benign neglect
2021-10-12 Zooming out of digital diplomacy
2021-05-21 Is North Korea expertise all talk
2021-03-22 When middle powers are caught in the middle
2021-01-19 Strengthening South Korea's voice
2020-12-08 Do politicians really make excellent envoys
2020-11-20 In search of a middle power rethink
2020-11-03 Coming soon a neutral South Korea
2020-08-25 Where next for MIKTA
2020-07-22 Australia's South Korea problem
2020-06-06 Middle powers after the middle power moment
2020-05-03 North Korea between fact and fiction
2020-01-29 Watching South Korea - Beware assumptions
2019-05-15 South Korea's missing middle power diplomacy
2019-03-06 Political leadership versus diplomacy
2018-11-03 Watching the North Korea Watchers
2018-10-05 Vale the Ambassador
2018-09-07 Debating South Koreas Military Service
2018-05-02 Is South Korea Really a Middle Power?
2017-12-18 Defining Middle Powers
2017-12-04 Pre-Emptive Talk on Pre-Emptive Strikes
2017-09-12 Do Analogies Steer South Korea's Foreign Policy