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South Korea is being prepped for the ring
The North Korea carnival is back
The shift in international relations scholarship
Middle power futures beyond the baloney
Middle powers and Thucydides Trap
The Korea-U.S. alliance is a Wild West standoff
Middle powers, values, and interests
The middle power Melian Dialogue
Increasingly great middle powers?
International relations theory fails middle powers
What’s in store for middle powers on the wrong side of history?
Diplomacy and win-win cooperation
Middle power nostalgia is not a strategy
Iran's war narrative: Lessons for middle powers?
When the U.S. accepts North Korea's nukes
Blaming Trump and Israel for America's woes
What would happen if USFK leave?
Counterfactual Korea: War or Peace had USFK left?
It's better to have a distant ally than a nearby one?
Iran's struggle as lessons for middle powers
From Trump's nice little excursion to WW3?
After Iran: Who'll be the last US ally to jump?
"What about North Korea? He’s a madman"
The United States has finally nominated a new ambassador to South Korea
The fecklessness of Foreign Affairs
The fate of middle powers in contested zones
South Korea at the end of empire?
Some middle power commentaries make me puke
With Gaza and Iran, a change is coming to conservatism in South Korea
The Iran War Precedent: Control or Neutralization
Nuclear threats normalize nuclear use
Prediction markets and North Korea
Contesting the rimlands: Ukraine, Iran, Korea?
Trump in Beijing's Springtime?
Time for a grand diplomatic bargain?
Watch out middle powers, the tide is coming in!
The use of nuclear weapons against Iran
Australia and Japan after the Indo-Pacific
Think Again: Blaming Israel Is Too Easy
The Indo-Pacific strategy just sank in Iran
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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
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
Manufacturing the next generation of North Korea watchers
2025-06-02 Fiction, foreign policy, and the tyranny of the plausible
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
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
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
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