Abstract Serious efforts to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East would help Iran become more forthcoming in resolving questions about its own nuclear…
Country or Region: United States
Abstract In a previous Survival article, I argued that, contrary to widespread belief, the United States has been pursuing at least one pillar of an…
Abstract This paper proposes a model for explaining shifts and variations in U.S. grand strategy. The model is based on a distinction between four ideal-type…
Abstract If US policymakers did not fully understand before 2011 how important the so-called ‘Arab street’ is in the politics of the Middle East and…
Abstract Japan’s new National Defense Program Guidelines, issued in December 2013 alongside the country’s first-ever National Security Strategy, highlighted the danger of a destabilising arms…
Abstract When the Obama administration announced its pivot to Asia in late 2011 and early 2012, there was much consternation over the choice of words.…
Abstract The announcement of a reformed US defence strategy by President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in early January 2012 confirmed a…
Abstract The conviction that economic ties will engender peace in Asia has been a lynchpin of the US strategic response to a rising China for…
Abstract Since the Enlightenment, the driving concepts of Western civilisation have been the belief in its own superiority and the theory of linear progress in…
Abstract Chinese officials and analysts regard the US pivot towards the Asia-Pacific as a strategy to contain China, despite Washington’s claim that it does not…
Abstract In “Protecting ‘The Prize’: Oil and the U.S. National Interest,” Eugene Gholz and Daryl G. Press present an important counterargument to many common but…
Abstract In recent years tensions across the Taiwan Strait have been overshadowed by fear of war on the Korean Peninsula. Commentators have even suggested that…
Abstract The ongoing reallocation of wealth and power from the West to the “rising rest” promises to produce a new pecking order over the course…
Abstract There is more to power than the traditional indicators of resources, influence and perception. Not long ago – in the 1980s, in fact –…
Abstract China’s maritime development having come up against pressures and challenges in recent years, the concept of “strategic hedging”—that is, pursuit of and investment in…
