Daily Archives: 7. January 2024

The Republic of Korea’s strategy for the Indo-Pacific and Global Pivotal States

by Dr Eunsook Chung, Senior Fellow Emeritus of Security Strategy Studies at Sejong Institute, Seoul In December last year, South Korea also adopted its official version of an Indo-Pacific strategy entitled “Strategy for a free, peaceful, and prosperous Indo-Pacific region”. While emphasising the Indo-Pacific as home to 65% of the world population, accounting for more…

Ensuring European security and support for Ukraine by better burden sharing

The European: Mr Kiesewetter, you are a member of the German Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs committee and an expert on security and defence. You recently called for the European Union (EU) to reduce its dependence on NATO. Can you explain the background to your statement? Roderich Kiesewetter: I am not talking about NATO as an alliance.…