Gauging Shinzo Abe’s Legacy

COVID-19 and Economic Competition with China and Russia

Tensions at the UN Security Council

RIMPAC is About Defence, Not Just Diplomacy

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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

How Should the International Criminal Court Be Assessed?

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

To the Brink With China

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?

How Great-Power Politics Will Be Used in an Asymmetric Era

Solving the Chinese Puzzle: A Classical Liberal Approach to Post-Pandemic Relations with China

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

The Pandemic’s Geopolitical Aftershocks

The pandemic’s geopolitical aftershocks | The Strategist: The triple crises of geopolitical power shifts, the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic disasters that flow from it will shape global politics, restructure global supply chains and bring an end to unregulated globalisation. The post-pandemic ...

The New Silk Road and the Maghreb Region

The New Silk Road and the Maghreb Region: Ever since the launch of the BRI in 2013, Beijing has shown great interest in the Maghreb region as an entry point to European and African markets. Beijing has prioritized commercial relations over political influence in the Maghreb. While the current BRI map does not officially include the Maghreb region (by design, as the BRI is more a loose brand than a strict program), Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed between China and every country in the Maghreb, demonstrating that China is expanding its foothold in the region.

China’s Rise Is MacArthur’s Vindication

China’s Rise Is MacArthur’s Vindication | RealClearDefense: In the midst of President Harry Truman’s controversial firing of General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War, Air Force General George Kenny, who brilliantly led MacArthur’s air force in the...

Why Xi Jinping is the Jose Mourinho of Geopolitics

Why Xi Jinping is the Jose Mourinho of geopolitics - CapX: Looking at China’s move from a “peaceful rise” to border conflicts with India, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Bhutan, Indonesia, Japan, and Pakistan – not to diplomatic conflicts with Canada, Australia, and a new Cold War with America, it struck me – why is China taking on everyone at once? Surely this is the opposite of …

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

Surveillance, COVID-19, and the unexpected problems of a new normal - Policy Forum: With citizens accessing the Internet in droves in the COVID-19 crisis, governments and corporations are taking advantage of the ‘new normal’ to ramp up Governments and corporations are taking advantage of the ‘new normal’ to ramp up their surveillance of public behaviour, Varya Srivastava writes.

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