DETERRENCE: Deterrence, Kim Jong Un’s Nuclear Doctrine and Strategy: What Everyone Needs to Know DPRK: North Korea’s cyber warfare and challenges for the U.S.-ROK alliance GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Gay rights opponents block hearing in Seoul CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Climate Change and the City: Building Capacity for Urban Adaptation CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY: Good COP, bad COP: Winners and losers […]
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Kim Jong Un’s Nuclear Doctrine and Strategy: What Everyone Needs to Know
Alexandre Y. Mansourov, Ph.D. Senior Associate of Nautilus Institute North Korea has a small operational nucle…
Nautilus Peace and Security – 11 December
DETERRENCE: Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Escalation in Regional Conflicts, Lessons from North Korea and Pakistan GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Strict new Japan secrets law to take effect amid protests CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: The Sustainable Development Goals – Will They Deliver Climate Compatible Development for Vulnerable Countries? AUSTRAL PEACE AND SECURITY: Pentagon in denial about civilian casualties of U.S. airstrikes […]
India-Vietnam Axis: Energy & Geopolitical Imperatives
Kapil Patil Nautilus Institute This paper was originally published with support from the Hanyang University’s Energy, Governance and Security (EGS) Center, available in Global Energy Monitor Vol. 2, No.9. India’s previous policy of avoiding alliances with great powers and/or playing an overt geopolitical balancing game seems to be no longer a foreign policy option in an increasingly multi-polar […]
Nautilus Peace and Security – 4 December
DETERRENCE: Japan’s Radical Energy Technocrats: Structural Reform Through Smart Communities DPRK: Elite volati…
Japan’s Radical Energy Technocrats: Structural Reform Through Smart Communities, the Feed-in Tariff and Japanese-Style “Stadtwerke”
Japan’s Radical Energy Technocrats: Structural Reform Through Smart Communities, the Feed-in Tariff and Japane…
Nautilus Peace and Security – 27 November
DETERRENCE: Air Force missile sites to get Wi-Fi DPRK: N. Korean envoy sent to Russia to ease diplomatic isolation GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Watchdog estimates N.K. development costs at $500b CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Creating New Norms on Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Displacement: International Developments 2010 – 2013 AUSTRAL PEACE AND SECURITY: Abbott clueless on how to handle US and China […]
Russia-South Korea-North Korea Trilateral Cooperation in 2013-2014
Younkyoo Kim Center for Energy Governance & Security This paper was originally published in Hanyang University’s Energy, Governance and Security (EGS) Center, available in Global Energy Monitor Vol. 2, No.7 as http://www.egskorea.org/common/download.asp?downfile=GEM_2014-9.pdf&path=board. Whatever Pyongyang’s reasons are for shelving Moscow’s initiatives, the failure to date of these proposals to gain traction clearly has serious implications for Russia’s Korea and overall […]
Australia in America’s Iraq War 3.0
Richard Tanter Nautilus Institute 14 November 2014 Little more than a month after the start of bombing operations, Australia’s new war in Iraq is following the path of its predecessor, a path marked by subordination to American interests, a casual disregard for Iraqi sovereignty and law, severe restriction of information provided to the Australian public, […]
Nautilus Peace and Security – 20 November
DETERRENCE: It’s Time to Talk About Nukes Again DPRK: N.K. Special Envoy meets with Putin GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: China uses APEC Summit as Platform to boost Leadership Role in Region ENERGY SECURITY: Cleaner, more efficient Cookstoves should be on front burner of Women’s needs in Developing Countries CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Climate Change in the Places We Live: What the […]