Summary How has world order changed since the Cold War ended? Do we live in an age of American empire, or is global power shifting…
Country or Region: United States
Summary Vietnam’s new foreign policy approach, which some analysts have labelled ‘more friends, fewer enemies’, reflects its precarious position as a bird on the wire…
Summary Vietnam is a developing country in southeast Asia of 93 million people. Since 1986, it has been modernizing its once centrally planned economy and…
Summary After communist North Vietnam’s victory over U.S.-backed South Vietnam in 1975, the United States and Vietnam had minimal relations until the mid-1990s. Since the…
U.S.-Vietnamese cooperation on nuclear energy and nonproliferation has grown in recent years along with closer bilateral economic, military, and diplomatic ties. In 2010, the two…
Summary The new Middle East Program monograph “Iran’s Nuclear Chess: Calculating America’s Moves” by Robert Litwak, vice president for scholars and director of international security…
Summary New security challenges are increasingly important in U.S. security planning. Transnational threats that do not arise from national rivalries or involve geopolitical competition—climate change,…
Summary Globalization and America’s Trade Agreements is a valuable guide for newcomers to trade policy and a challenging critique of trade policy for those already knowledgeable.…
Summary The second of Gilbert Rozman’s contributed volumes on East Asian national identity traces how efforts to draw a sharp divide between one country’s identity…
Summary This report evaluates the energy and geopolitical shifts that have arisen from the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United…
Abstract International safeguards is the system of measures put in place by the International Atomic Energy Agency and states to ensure nuclear programs remain dedicated…
Summary This book examines the puzzle of why some states acquire nuclear weapons, whereas others refrain from trying to do so or even renounce…
From the Publisher: Tensions in the Asia-Pacific region are rising as a consequence of the U.S. “pivot” to Asia and China’s increasingly assertive foreign policy. Other…
Abstract How is East Asia responding to the rising China? Pertinent literature suggests that explicit balancing or containment has been rare and engagement, if not…
Summary Although the current world order is still dominated by the US, there is increasing international concern over the possibility of regional security dilemmas arising…
