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Pakistan Struggles to Regain Its Footing in a Changing Muslim World

Importance of Tibet’s Rivers for Asian Water Security

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America’s Indo-Pacific Challenge

How Obscure Parts of the World Suddenly Became Very Important to US Security in 2020

The Dawn of the Dragon: How Xi Jinping Has Transformed China

India Not Ready for RCEP

China’s Rise as a Global Security Actor: Implications for NATO

Trapped by Thucydides? Updating the Strategic Canon for a Sinocentric Era

Russia Moves East, India West, Straining Ties

Will RCEP Change the Game in Asia?

Risky Rise: How the CCP and China Has Evolved Under Xi Jinping

How the US Can Rethink Growing China-Pakistan Ties

Time to Rethink How to Build a More Resilient and Inclusive Asia Pacific

China’s Military Strategy Against America: Less Attrition, More Precision

How Can China Mediate Between Israel and Pakistan?

Three Articles Signal New Cold War

Saudi Arabia-Pakistan Relations Will Never Be the Same Again

Strategic Rivalry: Prospects for Russian-American Relations in the New US Political Cycle

Broadening the Transatlantic Partnership to Address the China Challenge

India’s Strategic Interests in Central Asia and Afghanistan Go Through Iran

What's Next for the Western Sahara Conflict?

Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party

On the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Practical Steps Are More Important Than Grand Visions

The Future of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan

The ‘Arab Spring’ a Decade On

How Has COVID-19 Impacted Intelligence Collection and Analysis?

Time to Review India’s Tibet Policy

Three Geopolitical Lessons of 2020

China’s Policy Towards Belarus and Ukraine

Go West: Russia’s Soft Power in Europe

Not Your Mother’s Cold War: India’s Options in US-China Competition

As the EU’s Power Grows, the Split Over Values is Widening

Are Continental Powers Capable of Challenging Supremacy at Sea?

Why Arab States Are Recognizing Israel

Does America Need a Parliament?

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Paves a Way Forward

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Domestic and Global Challenges of China’s Economic Transformation

AI Governance and Military Affairs – Neurotechnologies and Future Warfare

China in 2021: Agenda Setting, Anniversaries, and Potential for Conflict

President Joe Biden and the Restoration of US Global Leadership

From the Russian Constitution to Putin’s Constitution

China's Propensity for Innovation in the 21st Century

Empires and Opportunism: Russia, Iran and China

Covid-19’s Impact on Elections in the Indo-Pacific

America's Intelligence Needs in the Face of Great-Power Competition

Fostering a New Security Architecture in the Middle East

Could a Third World War Still Happen?

The New Great Game at Sea

These Conflicts Were the Most Destructive in All of Human History

Seeking Balance Between Fintech Innovation and Regulation in China

China and the US Are Facing Off in the Third World

Suga’s Accountability Problem

How Does China Fit into Biden’s Foreign-Policy Framework?

Addressing Fragility in a Global Pandemic: Elements of a Successful US Strategy

The Geopolitics of Combatting the Coronavirus

On China, Australia is Left Counting the Cost

Six Aspects of Daily Life Rapidly Changed by COVID-19

Domestic and International (Dis)Order: A Strategic Response

Enter the Dragon: China’s Growing Influence in the Middle East and North Africa

End of Al Qaeda Era?

Biden is Unlike Trump, Also as Regards China

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America Doesn’t Need to Worry About a Russia-Chinese Military Alliance

The Process to Choose the Next UN Leader Should Start Now

What Does Biden’s Victory Mean for the Indo-Pacific?

How a 'Rapid Withdrawal' From Afghanistan is Logistically Possible

Why Reforming Islam to Fight Violent Extremism is a Bad Idea

RCEP: One Small Geo-Economic Step or a Giant Eastward Leap in Geostrategic Gravity?

Cyber-enabled Foreign Interference in Elections and Referendums

Mercenaries in the Service of Authoritarian States

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Saudi Arabia and International Summitry: Hard Try, and Harder Times Ahead

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AI in the Age of Cyber-Disorder

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A Tale of Two Chinese Cities: Shenzhen and Shanghai

The Syrian Forever War Has Created Forever Refugees

Beijing Wins in RCEP, but Despite Itself

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India and China Border Briefer: The Shadow of Article 370’s Revocation

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The G20’s Uncertain Future

The United Nations and the Origins of ‘The Great Reset’

Reviving the Trans-Atlantic Relationship

Securing the EU’s Place in the World

The Perils of Pulling Troops Out of Afghanistan

The Difficult Normalisation of Relations between Arab Countries and Bashar al‑Assad

Opportunities and Challenges in US-India Strategic Relations

Regime Realism and Chinese Grand Strategy

What Can Development Research Do For Diplomacy?

Marching On: China’s Economic Plans and Visions After the Fifth Plenum

The Art of Empire: Great Britain’s Victorian War Artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler

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China 4.0: Sharing the Dividends of Digitalization

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Clausewitz, the Trinity, and the Utility of Hybrid War

The Problem with Soft Power

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The Conspiracy of Lin Biao: Glory, Mystery, and Death

Why America Should Fear a Russia-China Alliance

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Political Upheaval in Sri Lanka

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China’s Rise Pulling the World into Uncharted Territory

Did the US Feed Itself the Wrong Intelligence?

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Japan Can’t Afford Just to Mimic US China Policy

This Is China's 30-Year-Plan For Global Military Dominance

Fracturing South Asia Into Action

The UN Security Council Will Perish Without Reform

The Middle East Just Doesn’t Matter as Much Any Longer

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China’s Widening Divide

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Fear as Driver of International Relations

The Coup in Mali Tests the UN’s Credibility

Conflict and Covid-19 Are a Deadly Mix

The COVID Middle-Income Trap

China Parties as it Plots an Anti-Decoupling Strategy

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COVID-19 and Economic Competition with China and Russia

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What Abe Leaves Behind for Japan and the World

It's Time for a Geopolitical Reset

A Cold War with China?

The Cataclysmic Great Power Challenge Everyone Saw Coming

The UN Charter’s Original Effect on State Sovereignty and the Use of Force

The Future of China Studies in the US

China and Iran Create Parallel Global Chessboard

The Global Risk of the US Election

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China’s String of Pearls: What About India's Necklace of Diamonds?

US Retreat From Multilateralism Blunts the Fight Against COVID-19

Can 'The Quad' Work Together to Contain Chinese Aggression?

Trump’s Toxic Present to the United Nations

The Myth of China's 'Debt-Trap Diplomacy'

Covid-19 and the Geopolitics of American Decline

How America’s Experience with Pakistan Can Help it Deal with Turkey

Xi Jinping's Geopolitical Cataclysm

New Sultan on the Block

Don’t Shoot the Messenger

Don’t Start a New Cold War with China

Too Interconnected to Fail

China and the United States: The 21st Century’s ‘Great Game’

The Partisan Pandemic: Do We Now Live In Alternative Realities?

The UN Guidelines on 'Battlefield' Evidence and Terrorist Offences: A Frame, a Monet, or a Patchwork?

Japan and ‘Great Power Competition’

Can a Xi Charm Offensive Win Over Japan?

World War III May Be Closer Than You Think

Counterterrorism in a Time of COVID

China vs. America: What History Can Tell Us About Strategy in 2020

Managing the Sino-American Dispute Over Missile Defense

Let’s End the COVID-19 Blame Game: Reconsidering China’s Role in the Pandemic

How China Reversed the New Great Game of Strategic Competition

Uncertain, Ambiguous ‘Peace’ for Afghanistan

Lessons from Conflicts Between Nuclear and Non-Nuclear States

Democracy after Coronavirus: Five Challenges for the 2020s

What Happens When America Is No Longer the Undisputed Super Power?

ASEAN as Pivotal Actor: Balancing Centrality and the Indo-Pacific

Here's What Must Change to Keep Asia's Rise Peaceful

Biden-Harris Win Could Bring US Foreign Policy Reset—But Not on China

Defining Grand Strategy

Israel’s Dilemma in the New Cold War

What Pompeo's Speech Really Means for India and an Alliance Against China

Why Japan May Cede the Senkakus to China

Intelligence Operations: Risks Faced by Academia

The Moribund EU

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An ‘Alliance of Democracies’ Sounds Good. It Won’t Solve the World’s Problems.

Rightsizing the Afghanistan Mission

Sputnik V: The Geopolitics Surrounding Russia's Coronavirus Vaccine

Democracy’s Squad: India’s Change of Heart and the Future of the Quad

No War With China, Cold or Hot

A Chance for Chinese Economic Leadership

Generational Divides and the Asia-Pacific War

Who’s Undermining the Global Order?

Countering China’s Counter-Intervention Strategy

Remembering Brent Scowcroft, a True National Security Maverick

Is Two-Party Polarization A Threat to Liberty?

Peering into the Future of Sino-Russian Cyber Security Cooperation

The Internet, COVID-19, and the Open Society

Asian Security amid China’s Dominance

China and Middle East Security Issues: Challenges, Perceptions and Positions

Why a ‘Nixon Moment’ in India-China Relations is Unlikely

Assessing Communications-Based Activities to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism

The Other Global Power Shift

Responsible Competition With China Benefits the US

India Under Strain Across South Asia

China's Military Is Not Just Growing Or Modernizing, It Is Changing

What Really Happened at the Port of Beirut?

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Russia and US National Interests: Maintaining a Balance of Power in Europe and Asia

75 Years on, How Will the Nuclear Age End?

The United States, China, and the Contest for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

What do Victory and Defeat Mean 75 Years After the End of the Pacific War?

Navigating Sino-Russian Defense Cooperation

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What Iran Gets from the Strategic Deal with China

What Iran Gets from the Strategic Deal with China

We Already Fought a Cold War with Beijing and It Went Very Badly

Regional Alignments and Confrontations: COVID-19's Impact In and Beyond the Persian Gulf

Can America Weaken the Russia-Iran Axis?

The Role of Social Media in International Relations

Surveillance, COVID-19, and the Unexpected Problems of a New Normal

Asia's Stalingrad: World War II's Battle For Shanghai Was A Hell Like No Other

Reimagining Multilateralism: Seizing the Opportunity for Change

Misreading the Chinese Tea Leaves: A Dangerous Escalation

Russia, China and the Arctic: Cooperation or Looming Rivalry?

The Great China-India Clash Everyone Saw Coming

Western Liberalism’s Crisis is Self-Inflicted

The Quad Is Poised to Become Openly Anti-China Soon

America’s New China Policy: Regime Change

The Little-Known Thinker Who Holds the Key to Cold War II

Has COVID-19 Changed How China’s Leaders Approach National Security?

What Does Afghanistan’s Latest Outreach to Pakistan Mean for India?

Did COVID-19 Really Give China a Strategic Advantage?

America Both in Crisis and on Trial

With Friends Like These: Assessing Russian Influence in Germany

‘Eliminated’, but Islamic State Continues its Pursuit of New Territory

Turbulence in Arms Control: Open Skies Treaty Became a Victim of Great Power Competition

Reconstruction in Syria

The True Lessons of Nixon and Kissinger’s China Strategy

It is Time for the US to Pursue a New Path in the Middle East

A New US National Security Strategy: A World Transformed

India, Australia, and Containing the China Challenge

Tibet Freedom Needs to be Pivotal Thrust of Indian Foreign Policy 2020

What a Shift in the UK’s Foreign Policy Means for the US

Understanding the Russian Position in Syria

Can Sudan Escape Its History as a Transit Hub for Violent Extremist Organizations?

A US Vision Beyond Great Power Competition

The Sino–Russian Entente and EU Foreign Policy After the Pandemic

Will America Back India Against China In the Himalayas?

Keeping the Americans In, the Russians Out and the Chinese in Check: Germany’s Future Strategy

China and Iran Reach a New Stage in Their Strategic Partnership

What Comes After COVID-19? Political Psychology, Strategic Outcomes, and Options for the 'Quad-Plus'

A Historic EU Agreement – But For All the Wrong Reasons

The Return of 'Empire' in International Politics

A Strategic Pivot to Outer Space

China’s Growing Peace and Security Role in Africa

America's Worst Nightmare: Russia and China Are Catching Up Militarily

Be Realistic About Countering China

Economic Competition in the 21st Century

The Abe Doctrine on 'Quad Plus'

China’s Tech Ambitions Threaten to Fundamentally Change How the Internet Functions

Uneasy Contradictions Continue in India’s Strategic Engagements

It's Time For the Middle Powers to Step In

Raising Europe’s Global Role Starts at Home

The Politics of a Covid-19 Vaccine

Australia’s Vision of Leadership in the Indo-Pacific

Russia’s Approach to Responsibility to Protect in the Black Sea and Syria

The Sino-Indian Standoff and a Most Misunderstood Frontier

Why Some Revolutions Fail

China’s Make-Over: From Celestial Kingdom to Hegemonic Power

Could Theodore Roosevelt Have Been President Again Had He Not Died So Soon?

The United States, China, and the Future of Arms Control

Trade, Deglobalisation and the New Mercantilism

Is America Good or Evil?

Was Opening Up To China Really a Mistake?

India Squanders its Comparative Advantage

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Where Are US-Russia Relations Headed?

Is Yemen the Next Frontier for the Turkey-Russia Conflict?

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The Indo-Pacific Contest: It Could be Time for Fresh Ideas on Allied Security Cooperation

China is Unlikely to Engage in a Nuclear Arms Race With the US

How Trump is Losing Asia

Yes, to Balance China, Let’s Bring Russia in From the Cold

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Chinese Border Aggression Against India Likely Unrelated to Pandemic

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How Germany Could Shape Europe’s Policy on China

How Xi Jinping is Reshaping the World

China is Not the Middle East's High Roller

Are We Entering an 'Asian Century?': The Possibility of a New International Order

Why Are There Different Welfare States in the Middle East and North Africa?

India’s Position in a Post-U.S. Withdrawal Afghanistan

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China’s Indian Ocean Dilemma

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The European Union’s Self-Help Moment

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Japan Quietly Takes Lead In Asian Pushback Against China

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Urgent Priorities for Fragile States

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America's 2020 Is Not Like 1968: It May Be Worse

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