RPI Director Deepa M. Ollapally’s article, “India Needs to Keep Its Friends Close and Its Rivals Closer,” was published in the online platform East Asia…
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After a tumultuous 2018 that saw the beginning of a trade war, US withdrawals from treaties on nuclear missiles and Iran, and historic summits with…
On November 30th and December 1st, the Group of Twenty (G20) Summit convened in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Unlike the stalemate at the APEC Summit, the…
The Rising Powers Initiative added Australia to the list of countries included in our Research Database. RPI’s citation entries on Australia will be limited to…
The Rising Powers gathered in Singapore November 11th-15th for the 33rd Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). At the ASEAN Summit, the…
During the week of October 29, 2018, RPI Director Deepa M. Ollapally delivered two lectures at Pondicherry University’s Centre for Maritime Studies, located on the…
As the ASEAN and G20 Summits approach, the Rising Powers have continued to focus on their bilateral ties. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an…
On October 19th, the New York Times reported that the United States was preparing to announce its exit from the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty…
In the past few weeks, attention within the Rising Powers has been on strengthening–or at least soothing–bilateral relations. The common motivating factor: the United States.…
RPI’s three-part series on Connectivity and Competition culminated in a panel at The George Washington University entitled “Regional Trends in the Indo-Pacific: Towards Connectivity or…
Ichhya Pichhya, Sigur Field Research Grant Recipient for Summer 2018, spent her summer in Nepal researching the connection between technology and healthcare. Read Ichhya’s reports…
The United States’ latest round of tariffs against China took effect on September 24th, clocking in at approximately $200 billion worth of goods. The tariff…
The Rising Powers Initiative will be co-hosting a panel entitled “The Indo-Pacific and Regional Trends: Towards Connectivity or Conflict?” with the Sigur Center for Asian…
Earlier this month, Professor Rory Medcalf, Head of the National Security College at the Australian National University in Canberra and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings…
A counter-narrative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has yet to arrive in the Indo-Pacific region. Set against China’s rising influence under the BRI,…
