Abstract It has long been thought that the US alliance system provides the security guarantee which has stabilised the Asia-Pacific. In recent years the two…
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Abstract The United States (US) and Pakistan developed a relationship during the Musharraf era of simultaneous cooperation and coercion against each other. Pakistan helped both…
Abstract The fall of the Taliban in 2001 presented Iran with a complex strategic situation. On the one hand, the removal of the Taliban promised…
Abstract In his article “The Geography of Peace”, Robert Ross postulates that a bipolar regional power balance has emerged in East Asia. This theory is…
Summary The Asia-Pacific region is likely to be the fulcrum of international security affairs in the twenty-first century. As the region’s economies…
Abstract Four months after the U.S. ordered its troops into Afghanistan to remove the Taliban regime, China and Pakistan joined hands to break ground in…
Abstract United States President Barack Obama’s announcement of significant shifts in US polices towards the Middle East and East Asia in 2009 has affected the…
Abstract China is strengthening diplomatic ties and building naval bases along the sea lanes from the Middle East. This “String of Pearls” strategy is designed…
Introduction We live in a networked world. War is networked: the power of terrorists and the militaries that would defeat them depend on small, mobile…
Abstract “Unipolarity and U.S. hegemony will be around for some time,” declares Barry Posen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Exactly how long will likely…
Abstract Our nation’s security priorities, and our military, are in transition. In the Middle East, we ended the war in Iraq and are reducing ground troops…
Summary With Nixon’s historic reconciliation with China in 1972, Sino-American relations were restored, and China moved from being regarded as America’s most implacable enemy to…
Abstract IN FEBRUARY 1972 China and the U.S. agreed in the Shanghai Communique on several principles that should govern their future relations. One of these…
Excerpt Last summer, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that India and the United States had struck a deal for a far-reaching “strategic partnership.” As…
Summary One of the hallmarks of the two Bush administrations’ foreign and defense policies has been a growing rapprochement with India. Indeed, in June 2005…
