Issue Expanding the Northern Policy into a broader New Eurasia Strategy

Summary

The report's central recommendation is that Korea should enlarge its existing Northern Policy into a New Eurasia Strategy built on a wider spatial concept, creating a more flexible and integrated strategy for a vast region. It argues that the most important condition for designing new northern and Eurasian policy is a prior, in-depth reading of macro and structural factors, especially the direction and main features of change in the international order. The authors pose two guiding questions for the new government: where Eurasia's development and momentum will come from, and how great-power relations will change under the second Trump administration. Korea should reflect the new challenges and cooperation needs of northern Eurasian states, focus on priority cooperation fields, use its distinctive strengths and national competitiveness, and redefine the core goals of the strategy in light of the changed environment. Pursuing the strategy for global peace and shared prosperity is presented as a way to maximize Korea's global cooperation network and establish its standing as a leading state in an era of uncertainty.