Chiew-Ping Hoo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Fellow at EAIR Caucus

The article categorizes three types of joint military exercises (JME) partnerships: allies, trustable partners and potential adversaries. The major factors influencing the initiation and development of JME partnerships include: the development of defense capabilities, diplomatic utility, and strategic considerations. This article explains why and h...

Taking a broad historical perspective this chapter examines the policy imperatives behind the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ’s developing relations with the countries of Southeast Asia. Although the process of establishing diplomatic relations with the 10 member countries of ASEAN took around five decades, the DPRK has shown sustained inter...

This concluding chapter outlines the broad landscape of past and existing linkages between Southeast Asia and North Korea. It reflects on the main drivers for these bilateral and institutional relationships and further conceptualises the strategic ambivalence that characterises Southeast Asia’s responses to North Korea.

Using archival materials from the National Archives of Malaysia (Arkib Negara), this chapter examines how Malaysia-North Korea relations have evolved from the 1960s to the present. The assassination of Kim Jong Nam (half-brother of Kim Jong Un, current leader of North Korea) focused the world’s attention on Malaysia-North Korea relations, Malaysia’...

This chapter scrutinizes how the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) ensures its economic survival, while avoiding societal collapse in the face of the United States’ “maximum pressure” campaign and domestic calamities. As the economic dimension of the DPRK’s survival strategy has seldom been researched, this study will examine the domesti...

This chapter provides an overview of Malaysia's national interests and threat perception since its founding years since 1957, and how Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Razak defined the main principles and drivers of Malaysia's foreign and defence policies. From the Mahathirism since the 1980s until Najib's tilted preference in US-China strategic competit...

Relationships between Southeast Asia and the Republic of Korea (ROK or South Korea) have improved significantly, especially under President Moon Jae-In’s administration, whose 2017 New Southern Policy elevated Southeast Asia’s status as a vital part of South Korea's foreign policy agenda. President Moon visited all ten ASEAN countries, further inst...

This forum critically reflects on discrimination faced by early-career women international relations (IR) scholars in the Asia-Pacific region in their workplaces and beyond. By taking a self-ethnographic perspective, six contributors from five countries provide an engaging overview of difficulties they face in their everyday lives. Against the back...

This position paper first outlines the context of the world geopolitical and geo-economic order before the COVID-19 pandemic. It then discusses how the repositioning of the United States (still the hardest hit big power) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) (which has now recovered) defines the future global order. After considering the implica...

ISIS Focus Special Edition on New Southern Policy 2.0: “Revitalizing connectivity, Reinvigorating multi-track cooperation”.

Experts weigh in on the past, present, and future of this week's Mt. Kumgang meetings The two Koreas kicked off reunions of families separated by the Korean War on Monday, in a series of events set to last all week and taking place at the DPRK's Mount Kumgang. The first event of their kind since 2015-and the 21st to take place since 2000-this week...

As the theme of the conference suggests, the ongoing crisis and power shift in the Asia-Pacific could have repercussion for Europe and Germany. In the case of Southeast Asia relevant issues include: the rise of China’s political and economic influence that goes along with a more assertive foreign policy (for example, The Belt and Road Initiative (B...

Dr. Hoo Chiew-Ping takes stock of ASEAN member states’ relations with the DPRK, and highlights the role of ASEAN and its members in both engagement with and sanctions against Pyongyang.

Moon Jae-in administration introduces Northeast Asia Plus Community of Responsibility (NAPCOR) as a continuation of Park Geun-hye’s Northeast Asia Peace and Cooperation Initiative (NAPCI). While Park’s NAPCI entails Trustpolitik as the main theme and primarily aimed at engaging North Korea through non-traditional security areas of cooperation, taki...

A presentation for a seminar organized and hosted by the Fujian Academy of Social Sciences, at Fuzhou, Fujian Province, PRC.

This paper aims at resolving the puzzle of the lack of understanding in Malaysia’s position on the two Koreas (North and South Korea) and how Malaysia manages the two countries with bilateralism and multilateralism frameworks by focusing on its national strategic importance in ASEAN. The assassination of Kim Jong-nam in Malaysia has brought the wor...

East Asian security involves myriads of power struggle: US-China competition on the wider regional to global arena; middle powers that struggle to find their place in regional politics; and the asymmetric security threats permeating from small and fragile states such as North Korea. It is also not difficult to find weaker states challenge a much gr...

This paper examines the usage of strategic stability as a concept and how it is adapted in post-cold war era application. In order to develop a working definition and framework of strategic stability, it is necessary to survey and review the relevant works from the Cold War era until today. It is also useful to clarify the origins of ‘stability’ an...

Summary As the rapporteur for the two sessions of Southeast Asia Strategic Forum “Women, Business, and Economic Growth in Southeast Asia”, the outcome can be summarized as follows. The first session on “Gendered Economic Development in Southeast Asia” shows that the papers presented complemented each other. However, a link between Elisa’s main argu...

This paper examines the strategic alliance of Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States (U.S.) from 1993 until 2010, focusing on the South Korean domestic politics and its relations with the North Korean missile provocations. Using cross-examinations of US-ROK administrations during the timeframe of the study, the paper argues that South Korean...

The purpose of this paper is to address the strategic stability discussion with a focus on the Korean Peninsula security issues. Firstly, this paper will briefly introduce Republic of Korea-United States (ROK-US) security relations from post-Korean War until the end of Cold War, follow by the arguments by various scholars on the definition of strat...

North Korea’s nuclear and missile provocations have posed serious threat to Northeast Asian security. This paper presents how North Korean nuclear and missile programs induced changes in the U.S.-Japan security alliance and increased Japan’s role in regional deterrence against the North Korean threat. The qualitative method of process-tracing and c...