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March 22, 2010
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament
Seeking Nuclear Security Through Greater International Coordination
Overview In April 2009, U.S. president Barack Obama identified nuclear terrorism as the gravest threat to the United States. But debates in the main decision-making bodies in Vienna and New York r…
September 22, 2011
China
Managing Instability on China’s Periphery
Overview China's growing global engagement and presence has increased the number of conceivable places and issues over which it could find itself at odds with the United States, but potential deve…
November 8, 2011
South Korea
How a Shift in South Korean Attitudes and Electoral Politics May Trip Up the KORUS FTA
The U.S. Congress approved the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) on October 12, 2011, but it remains deadlocked in South Korea's National Assembly. Despite the Lee Myung-bak administration'…
February 16, 2012
Development
From Aid to Development Partnership
Overview U.S.-ROK cooperation in international development is at its early stages, but forging such cooperation has great potential. It enables the two countries to jointly pursue their common int…
October 23, 2012
South Korea
Global Korea
Overview Over the past few years, South Korea has become an active contributor to international stability through its "increased participation in peacekeeping, antipiracy, postconflict stabilizati…
June 28, 2013
South Korea
Nuclear Power in South Korea’s Green Growth Strategy
Introduction Nuclear power has been an important, if understated, aspect of South Korea's National Strategy for Green Growth, a set of policies reflecting the idea that economic growth and environ…
September 3, 2013
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Global Economics Monthly: September 2013
Bottom Line: There's a strong consensus that this fall's fiscal showdown will result in a compromise agreement, but a deal may be harder to get than markets anticipate. Have pity on the U.S. fisca…
January 8, 2015
South Korea
The U.S. Rebalance and the Seoul Process
Overview In the spring of 2013, South Korean President Park Geun-hye proposed the Northeast Asia Peace and Cooperation Initiative (NAPCI), a forum for institutionalized cooperation that the region…
June 10, 2015
South Korea
Middle-Power Korea
Overview South Korea can best influence the global agenda by committing sufficient resources to sustainable development, financial stability, nuclear governance, and green growth, argues Scott A. …
September 12, 2016
G20 (Group of Twenty)
Global Economics Monthly: September 2016
Steven A. Tananbaum Senior Fellow for International Economics Robert Kahn argues that at the Group of Twenty (G20) Summit in Hangzhou, China, leaders called for governments to do more to support growth, but offered little in the way of new measures. Quietly, and away from the G20 spotlight, fiscal policy is becoming more expansionary, but current policies are unlikely to provide a meaningful boost to growth or soothe rising populist pressures.