Search results for: Alexandra Said
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The Lithuanian Gambit
...strategic economic shifts (Askew 2023) . So, the Lithuanian Gambit may be said to be still playing out, albeit in a context of some degree of trade normalisation....
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Japan: No Indo-Pacific Order Without International Order
...which, as Kishida said, could soon face “harsher realities.” Second, highlighting the “loneliness and exhaustion” of the United States as the sole “country that has upheld the international order almost...
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Convergence in Vietnam, EU Interests a Harbinger of Indo-Pacific Order?
...highest priority since Doi Moi (renovation) in 1986. Economic growth is considered the backbone of national security and regime legitimacy. Hanoi’s development of foreign relations can be said to be...
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Strategic Standoffs: How Repeated Games Illuminate the Future of South China Sea Disputes
...The faster any of the SCS littoral states realise their green transition, the lower their need to enjoin the conflict. Although, as I said before, fossil fuel access is only...
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Jagannath Panda: “India’s INSTC Commitment Is Not Reliant on Western Endorsement”
...decision on how much capital it spends on the INSTC. That said, pushing ahead with the INSTC could have some associated costs. India will need to navigate through European sanctions...
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Myths and Mysteries: Six months on from Turkey’s Curious Coup
...Fethullah Gülen. In fact, the INTCEN report said that some of Gülen’s followers probably participated in the coup, adding that it was unlikely that Gülen himself had masterminded it. The...
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What to Make of Kim Yo Jong’s Verbal Attack of South Korea’s Defense Minister
...Introduction: Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a leading voice on inter-Korean relations, said on Sunday that “South Korea may...
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Japan Expects Biden to Rejoin the TPP
...Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, New Zealand, Singapore, and Vietnam. The CPTPP entered into effect in December 2018. “We have said many times that joining the TPP...
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Moving Beyond Rhetoric? The EU-Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA)
...politics and security (more than 100) that the EU and Japan wanted to jointly tackle. That being said, the SPA is still listing 40 areas of cooperation, among them crisis...
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A Steady Hand: The EU 2019 Strategy & Policy Toward Central Asia
...appendix to something else. That said, a series of issues continue to confront EU policy in Central Asia. First among these is scope. The EU is active on numerous fronts...