https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/A-New-Conflict-Era https://booksandideas.net/A-New-Conflict-Era 2020-07-13T07:17:46Z text/html en Floriano Filho International Japan geopolitics Asia nuclear policy South Korea North Korea Books and ideas originals <p>Japan and the Korean peninsula share a troubled history, and the already tense relationships of these areas have been deteriorating over the past few years. Floriano Filho maps out these tensions as well as their symptoms—which include an arms race—while bringing light to their historical roots.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Kaesong-Caught-between-Two-Koreas https://booksandideas.net/Kaesong-Caught-between-Two-Koreas 2017-06-19T07:00:00Z text/html en Antoine Bondaz Politics International diplomacy nuclear policy Florence Gould Foundation South Korea North Korea sanctions <p>In February 2016, South Korea decided to close the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in protest against North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile tests. Previously, it had not framed denuclearisation as a prerequisite for collaboration between the two Koreas – a change of course that may prove ill advised.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Impossible-Asian-Union https://booksandideas.net/The-Impossible-Asian-Union 2011-12-20T07:56:00Z text/html en Bernard Thomann International Japan China history Asian community Asia Institut français Text Interviews South Korea <p>François Godement reminds us that the process of economic and cultural integration that is currently taking place in Asia is undermined by the heavy militarization of the countries in that region, by their competing visions of history and by diverse political factors of instability.</p>