Asia Publications
New Romanian Evidence on the Blue House Raid and the USS Pueblo Incident
Apr 20, 2012NKIDP e-Dossier No. 5, "New Romanian Evidence on the Blue House Raid and the USS Pueblo Incident," features introductions from expert scholars Mitchell Lerner and Jong-Dae Shin and 28 new Romanian documents which open an exciting window into communist bloc policies and perspectives on the Blue House Raid, the USS Pueblo crisis, and North Korea's military adventurism. more
e-Dossier No. 33 - North Vietnam's "Talk-Fight" Strategy and the 1968 Peace Negotiations with the United States
Apr 16, 2012CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of 13 new documents to its online Digital Archive. The newly translated documents released today reveal the Vietnamese Communist Party's "Talk-Fight" negotiation strategy, first described by First Secretary Le Duan in a 1965 speech and put into action during initial 1968 peace talks. more
China and Coexistence
Mar 21, 2012"Peaceful coexistence," long a key phrase in China's strategic thinking, is a constructive doctrine that offers China a path for influencing the international system. So argues Liselotte Odgaard in this timely analysis of China's national security strategy in the context of its foreign policy practice. more
e-Dossier No. 30 - Treatment of American POWs in North Vietnam
Feb 14, 2012CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new document to its online Digital Archive. The document released today is a 1969 North Vietnam Communist Party resolution containing detailed instructions for improving the treatment and living conditions of American prisoners of war. more
South Africa, the East African Community, and the U.S.-Africa Policy Conundrum
Feb 01, 2012The perception that Africa takes a backseat to Asia in President Barack Obama’s foreign policy view obscures a compelling strategic landscape the administration could construct were it ever to elevate the attention it apportions to Africa. more
China Orders the World: Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy
Jan 31, 2012This volume examines a series of complex debates surrounding the role of China's historical ideals in shaping its foreign policy. Presenting and analyzing the works of key Chinese philosophers and prominent international relations theorists, the contributors—prestigious scholars from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France—examine how an idealized version of China's imperial past now inspires a new generation of Chinese scholars and policymakers and their plans for China's future. more
Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam
Jan 30, 2012Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret Polish-Italian peace initiative, codenamed "Marigold," that sought to end the war, or at least to open direct talks between Washington and Hanoi, in 1966. more
U.S.-China Relations: Asian Perspectives
Jan 25, 2012Few would question the assertion that the U.S.-China relationship is the predominant factor in Asian power interactions. All Asian capitals keep a very close eye on bilateral dealings between these two giants, in particular to see how they will affect their own relations with them. more
e-Dossier No. 28 - Vietnam Trained Commando Forces in Southeast Asia and Latin America
Jan 03, 2012CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of two new documents to its online Digital Archive. The two documents released today provide new evidence of Vietnam’s covert training of revolutionary commando forces in Southeast Asia and Latin America. more
Sport and Politics on the Korean Peninsula - North Korea and the 1988 Seoul Olympics
Dec 12, 2011NKIDP e-Dossier No. 3, "Sport and Politics on the Korean Peninsula - North Korea and the 1988 Seoul Olympics," includes sixty documents on North Korea’s efforts to co-host the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Featuring an introduction by Sergey Radchenko, the documents offer an unprecedented window into North Korea's negotiating strategies and shed new light on inter-Korean relations and the DPRK’s foreign relations at the end of the Cold War. more
