How does the changing international security environment affect East Asia?
Examining how strategic competition, alliances, and conflicts influence regional choices and relationships.
Network for East Asian Research
A closer look at
East Asia.
Exploring East Asian affairs through research, questions, and exchange.
Explore Focus01 / NEAR
Questions to explore
How international security, politics, and diplomacy shape East Asia.
How do international politics and diplomacy reshape regional relations?
Exploring how major powers’ policies and diplomatic shifts affect cooperation and tensions in East Asia.
Research, questions, exchange.
NEAR connects research with questions for people working on international security, politics, and diplomacy.
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Research notes
Review public documents and research, then separate evidence from interpretation.
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Conversations
Ask focused questions and explore perspectives through interviews arranged with participants.
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Contributions
Explore future commissioned writing and exchanges, with scope and terms agreed in advance.
Writing & Notes
Project note · Justin Kim
Starting NEAR: questions to explore
A starting point for understanding East Asian affairs through research and exchange with researchers.
Read the notePre-event research · Justin Kim
Singapore and Thailand Between the United States and China: Security Ties, Economic Stakes
How do two countries preserve room for manoeuvre through different security and economic relationships?
Read the briefing ↗About
Justin Kim
Founder · Singapore
NEAR Project explores how international security, politics, and diplomacy shape East Asia. Based in Singapore, it aims to examine different perspectives through research, seminar participation, and questions and exchange with researchers.
Background
His academic background includes studies in business administration, international economics and trade, and Chinese. His professional experience includes administrative support at a Korean reunification organization and publishing focused on Korean Peninsula affairs. He also served as a military intelligence officer in South Korea.