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(15 May, 2012)


Assoc Research Fellow Benjamin Ho quoted by Talk Vietnam on China-ASEAN ties
(13 Apr, 2012)

Assoc Professor Tan See Seng interviewed by World Politics Review on deepening US-Singapore ties
 (28 Feb, 2012)

Workshop on Northeast Asian Regionalism, 6 July 2012, Traders Hotel, Singapore


Ian Storey, Ralf Emmers and Daljit Singh (eds), The Five Power Defence Arrangements at Forty, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011

Bhubindar Singh and Tan See Seng, From Boots to Brogues: The Rise of Defence Diplomacy in Southeast Asia. RSIS Monograph No. 21, 2011

Pradumna B Rana (Editor), Renaissance of Asia: Evolving Economic Relations between South Asia and East Asia, UK: Imperial College Press, 2012

 
 

THE Seoul Nuclear Summit held from 26—27 March 2012 took place amidst global concerns over North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Among other diplomatic means, the Six-Party Talks (SPT) is widely recognised as a principal forum in which these nuclear tensions may be resolved.


Described as an explicitly multi-national, track one, Northeast Asian forum to address an immediate crisis, the SPT was born out of North Korea’s withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in January 2003 after U.S. President George W. Bush labeled North Korea as part of the “Axis of Evil”.


Since then, the SPT’s objective has been to find a peaceful reso-lution to the various security concerns that have arisen as a result of the North Korean nu-clear weapons’ program. The inaugural SPT which took place in August 2003 in Beijing, saw representatives from North Korea, South Korea, China, Rus-sia, the United States and Japan attending.