Abstract There is more to power than the traditional indicators of resources, influence and perception. Not long ago – in the 1980s, in fact –…
Topic: Foreign Policy
Summary How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square…
Summary Examining the underlying logic of the strategic and economic partnership between the Republic of Korea and India, this book is the first detailed study…
Summary This is Jaswant Singh’s eleventh known book, and here he keeps his focus on experiences rather than rhetoric to deal with the complex design of …
Abstract This article highlights the current relevance of cultural diplomacy not as a panacea for the problems in India’s relations with its South Asian neighbors…
Abstract Wedge strategy, a policy of preventing or dividing an adversary coalition, has been attracting increasing scholarly attention. In particular, Timothy Crawford has articulated the…
Abstract Beijing cultivates an image of a status quo power. But it has not yet fulfilled its ambitions, and there are indications that the easy…
Abstract This paper engages the ongoing soft balancing debate by suggesting a new analytical framework for states’ countervailing strategies—a negative balancing model—to explain why states…
Abstract American national security policy is based on a misunderstanding about U.S. oil interests. Although oil is a vital commodity, potential supply disruptions are less…
Abstract Crisis management is the most demanding form of diplomacy. So far neither Russia nor the US and its European allies have handled it particularly…
Abstract One thing that is clear about the interim nuclear deal with Iran, reached on 24 November in Geneva, is that much of the world…
Abstract Regime change is not an immediate answer to the current challenges posed by the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK). But North Korea’s…
Abstract Now that Tehran knows who will occupy the White House for the next four years, talks may soon resume in earnest. But Iranian eagerness…
Abstract In 1978, China’s leaders made the fateful decision to abandon Mao Zedong’s failed and futile quest for a uniquely Chinese development strategy in favour…
Abstract The American ability to think clearly about strategy did not survive the Cold War. As a result, the US worries more, and spends more,…
