Summary Arguing for a strategy that promises to achieve greater regional stability, this overview of security relations in the Asia-Pacific finds that current approaches by…
Topic: South Asian Security
Abstract The article reports on the development of naval capabilities in the Straits of Malacca, the world’s most important and strategic waterway, as a consequence…
Abstract This article critically analyses an intuitive and influential conceptual framework by which to understand state strategy in territorial conflicts. According to this framework, a…
Abstract China’s deployment of the Haiyang Shiyou-981 (HYSY-981) oil rig into Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) from early May to mid-July raised tensions in the…
Abstract Since September 2013, China has transformed seven features in the disputed Spratlys into artificial islands. It is currently developing extensive military and civilian infrastructure…
Summary Since the early 1990s and the end of the Cold War, the implications of China’s rising power have come to dominate the security agenda…
Abstract In this article, we puzzle through the dilemmas involving Indian use of limited air power against Pakistan. We evaluate the potential benefits and risks…
Abstract The paper tries to make an assessment of the borderland regions of China and India with a focus on Xinjiang, Tibet, Kashmir and the…
Summary The purpose of this book is to narrate important, dynamic events that have taken place in the Indo–U.S. relations, beginning from 1943 to 2013.…
Summary Some of the United States’ greatest challenges over the coming decades are likely to emanate from the Asia-Pacific region. China and India are rising…
Continue reading Mahnken, Thomas G., and Dan Blumenthal, eds
Abstract The positive role that external powers can play in the creation and maintenance of security in regions has long been ignored; external interference is…
Abstract As China rises to power in Asia, the hunt is on for a means to ensure its ‘peaceful rise’. One approach advanced in the…
Summary The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged as a hinge point in the changing global balance of power and the geographic nexus of economic…
Abstract The Obama administration has shifted its focus of strategic concerns from the Middle East to the Far East. (Although the term “Asia” is often…
Summary History has shown that rising powers inevitably trample upon their rival’s natural sphere of Influence. The Indo-Pacific region needs to work towards a security…
