Summary The US-India nuclear agreement has virtually rewritten the rules of the global nuclear regime by underlining India’s credentials as a responsible nuclear state that…
Country or Region: United States
Abstract As of early 2015, the authors estimate that the US Defense Department maintains about 4,760 nuclear warheads. Of this number, they estimate that approximately…
Excerpt “For the past 60 years, since roughly the outbreak of the Korean War and the U.S. response to that war, the Navy has had a…
Abstract What is the relationship between oil and coercion? For decades states have worried that their dependence on oil gives producers a potential lever of…
Excerpt “The unprecedented decision to send a surveillance vessel while also participating in the RIMPAC exercises calls China’s proclaimed stance on international navigation rights into…
Introduction As tensions simmer in the East and South China Seas, clouds of doubt overhang China’s presence at Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014. The…
Abstract Although its precise definition is contested, the concept of the ‘Anglosphere’ has grown in political discourse in the past decade. Anglospherist authors have defined…
Abstract This article correlates energy policy and practice with the multidimensional concept of energy security and empirical performance over forty years. Based on an analysis…
Summary This book assesses India’s role as a major power in the Indian Ocean. Many see the Indian Ocean as naturally falling within India’s sphere…
Summary Ensuring security in the Indo-Pacific region will be the primary foreign policy challenge for the United States and liberal nations over the next generation.…
Abstract Far from being ‘naturally’ delineated by geography or bound solely through shared culture, regions are actively constructed by states and other actors pursuing specific…
Abstract In recent years Beijing and Washington have maintained close cooperation on issues ranging from the war on terrorsm to dealing with the North Korean…
Abstract For the past year the six—party talks and the September 2005 ‘joint statement’ for dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons program have been put on…
Abstract The objective of this paper is to give insight into the debate over the strategic triangle and how it impacts conflict and security in…
Abstract Throughout the Cold War, Korea-US and US-Japan alliances in Northeast Asia functioned as United States’ major security network. However, as the substance of both…
