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Generating Positive Security Dynamics: From 2011 to 2025
Marty Natalegawa reflects on the relatively cooperative and diplomacy-driven security dynamics of 2011 with the fragmented, trust-deficient, and increasingly polarized landscape of 2025, emphasizing the critical role of deliberate policy choices in shaping these outcomes.
Newsroom
![2024: The Year in Review at APLN](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/News-Letter1-2.png)
2024: The Year in Review at APLN
Our roundup of APLN activities and publications for 2024.
Analysis
![Toward a New High-Level Disarmament Initiative](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Jorgen_Watne_Frydnes_awarding_Terumi_Tanaka_Shigemitsu_Tanaka_and_Toshiyuki_Mimaki_at_2024_Nobel_Peace_Prize_Ceremony_8_cropped-1-1.jpg)
Toward a New High-Level Disarmament Initiative
Tanya Ogilvie-White underscores that Nihon Hidankyo's Nobel Peace Prize win serves as a stark reminder of the escalating nuclear risks and the urgent need for bold disarmament leadership, inspired by ...
Projects
![No Longer In Good Standing: How Mongolia Would View South Korea Going Nuclear](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Rainbow_in_Mongolia_23955458716-1.jpg)
No Longer In Good Standing: How Mongolia Would View South Korea Going Nuclear
Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan explains the options available to Mongolia if South Korea were to go nuclear.
Projects
![A Rogue Seoul? South Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions and Indonesia-South Korea Relations](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Yoon-Jokowi-handshake.jpeg)
A Rogue Seoul? South Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions and Indonesia-South Korea Relations
Elaine Natalie and Andhika Prawira explore how Indonesia might react to South Korea acquiring nuclear weapons.
Projects
![Criticise, Compartmentalise: The Philippines Response to a Nuclear South Korea](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ROK-Philippines.jpeg)
Criticise, Compartmentalise: The Philippines Response to a Nuclear South Korea
Karla Mae G. Pabeliña explains how the Philippines would respond to South Korea acquiring nuclear weapons.
Projects
![In Defence of the Status Quo: Stabilising Cross-Strait Relations under the Lai Ching-Te ...](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/1-cf27d30a-e1729496743110.jpg)
In Defence of the Status Quo: Stabilising Cross-Strait Relations under the Lai Ching-Te ...
Kristy Tsun-Tzu Hsu writes on the evolving cross-strait relations under the Lai Ching-Te administration, examining how Taiwan’s political landscape and public opinion are shaping the island’s future ...
Member Activities
![Confidence Crisis in Korean Politics and Wake-Up Call](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024년_12월_국회_앞_윤석열_대통령_탄핵_시위.jpg)
Confidence Crisis in Korean Politics and Wake-Up Call
THE KOREA TIMES - APLN member Kim Won-soo argued that to overcome the current crisis, the ruling and opposition parties must reengage in constructive dialogue and address constitutional reforms.
![Handing Over the iCET Baton - Interview with Rakesh Sood](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/512px-Prime_Minister_of_Bharat_Shri_Narendra_Damodardas_Modi_meets_NSA_of_The_United_States_of_America_Mr._Jacob_Sullivan.jpg)
Handing Over the iCET Baton - Interview with Rakesh Sood
INDIA'S WORLD - APLN member Rakesh Sood shared his insights on the the broader implications of the India-US Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) in strengthening bilateral ties.
![Trump 2.0: Curse or Blessing?](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/President_Trump_in_Seoul_48162530046-e1736930712959.jpg)
Trump 2.0: Curse or Blessing?
THE KOREA TIMES - APLN Vice Chair Chung-in Moon argued that South Korea must prepare for potential challenges posed by a second Trump presidency.
![Geopolitical Landscape in 2025](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-01-15-at-17.38.21.png)
Geopolitical Landscape in 2025
ARIRANG NEWS - APLN member Eunjung Lim discussed what South Korea can do to weather the diplomatic challenges it is expected to face amid its political unrest in the new year.