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Emanuel Pastreich, visiting scholar at the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania and a Japan Focus associate, writes, “The United States is losing its economic and cultural authority through the lethal mixture of ballooning trade deficits and torture scandals. The danger is that a classic military reflex will be one of the few tools left in the chest at a time when the U.S. needs a far more varied and sophisticated set of responses to negotiate successfully the path ahead.”

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James Goodby, former U.S. ambassador to Finland and current Senior Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution, and Markku Heiskanen, a senior Finnish diplomat, who is currently Associate Senior Fellow of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen write, “Two inter-Korean railway corridors are now waiting for the first test trains to cross the demilitarized zone, for the first time in half a century. The EU supports the “Iron Silk Road”–the initiative of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung to connect the Korean peninsula to Europe through a Eurasian railway network.”

Read discussion of this essay by Aidan Foster-Cater.

Read discussion of this essay by Georgy Bulychev.

Discussion of "Linking Europe and Northeast Asia" Discussion of “Linking Europe and Northeast Asia” Policy Forum Online 06-17A: March 2nd, 2006 “Discussion of ‘Linking Europe and Northeast Asia’” by James Goodby and Markku Heiskanen CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Comments on “Linking Europe and Northeast Asia” by Aidan Foster-Carter III. Nautilus invites your responses I. Introduction […]

Discussion of "Linking Europe and Northeast Asia" Discussion of “Linking Europe and Northeast Asia” Policy Forum Online 06-17A: March 2nd, 2006 “Discussion of ‘Linking Europe and Northeast Asia’” by James Goodby and Markku Heiskanen CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Comments on “Linking Europe and Northeast Asia” by Georgy Bulychev III. Nautilus invites your responses I. Introduction […]