[EAI Working Paper] 2022 EAI Policy Recommendations for the New Administration Series_Planning Intent

2022 EAI Policy Recommendations for the New Administration

The East Asia Institute (EAI) presents major foreign policy recommendations for the new administration in anticipation of the 2022 presidential election and government transition. To this end, EAI researchers have conducted seminars and workshops since the beginning of the year, leading to this publication. This report, which will be published as a book in the future, raises four major tasks for the new government: the complexification of diplomacy towards the US and China, the denuclearization of North Korea and a 21st-century resolution to the North Korean issue, a new conception of Korea-Japan relations, and leading diplomacy for a new civilizational standard in the post-COVID order. To address these, the report presents eight strategies and a total of 24 policy tasks, including diplomacy towards the US, China, North Korea, and Japan, Indo-Pacific strategy, human rights and values-based diplomacy, trade and technology diplomacy, and global cooperative diplomacy.

The publication details and schedule are as follows.

1. Ha Young-sun, Introduction: Rebuilding Cooperative Diplomacy for the New Administration (Published September 6)[Read Report]

2. Chun Jae-sung, Policy Towards the US: Tasks for the New Administration for a Comprehensive ROK-US Alliance (Published September 8)[Read Report]

3. Lee Dong-ryul, Policy Towards China: Rebuilding ROK-China Relations Through Future-Oriented Practical Diplomacy (Published September 10)[Read Report]

4. Kim Byung-yeon & Ha Young-sun, Policy Towards North Korea: A New Conception for North Korean Denuclearization and 21st-Century Survival and Prosperity (Published September 13)[Read Report]

5. Son Yeol, Policy Towards Japan: Rebuilding ROK-Japan Relations with a Long-Term Perspective for the Next Century (Published September 15)[Read Report]

6. Park Jae-jeok, Indo-Pacific Regional Policy (Published September 17)[Read Report]

7. Kim Heon-jun, Values and Norms Diplomacy: South Korean Diplomacy Amidst the US-China Clash over Human Rights and Democracy (Published September 24)[Read Report]

8. Lee Seung-ju, South Korea's Multidimensional Response to Changes in the 21st Century Global Trade Order (Published September 27)[Read Report]

9. Kim Tae-gyun, Global Pandemic and New Cooperative Diplomacy (Scheduled for Publication September 29)[Read Report]