Search results for: David Nises
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Myanmar’s Push for Democracy
Last year Myanmar held its first elections in over 20 years. Despite doubts about the validity of the elections, there have been several noteworthy developments. Even so, the...
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Myanmar: Eastern Clout & Western Absence
Myanmar is a strategically located country. Its coastline meets the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea to the west, borders Thailand and Laos to the east, China...
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Revitalizing INSTC: Analyzing Geopolitical Realignments and the China Factor
...Blockade?” National Interest, 11 November 2021, https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/should-india-fear-chinese-naval-blockade-196918; David Lague and Benjamin Kang Lim, “China’s Fear of an American Blockade,” Reuters, 30 April 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-army-blockade-idUSKCN1S6140 (Accessed 18 November 2022). [7] Miriam...
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Exit Kiribati? The Pacific Islands Forum Faces Further Strife
...Fiji. As FSM President David Panuelo put it, “a big dark, dark cloud that has been hanging over the Pacific has evaporated.” Under the terms of the resulting Suva Agreement,...
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Taiwan-Marshall Islands Relations: Against the Tide
...by Amata Kabua’s son, David Kabua, might lead to an abrupt end to the Marshallese-Taiwanese relationship. Yet the RMI’s latest President Kabua has so far shown himself committed to continuing...
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Policies to Please Political Partners: The Development of Japan’s Intelligence Policy in the 21st Century
...for intelligence assessments at short notice has increased as decision-makers demand efficiency of service. Former director of the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Sir David Omand, noted in 2010 that...
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Water diplomacy: The intersect of science, policy and practice
In this editorial article, the authors summarize key messages on water diplomacy brought forward in the Special Issue: Water Diplomacy of the Journal of Hydrology. The authors have...
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Creative Diplomacy and North Korea
This policy brief looks at how North Korea has figured as an issue on the sidelines of the recent APEC Summit in Beijing in the context of developments...
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Security and Development in Afghanistan after 2014, 6th annual ISDP-AMS Conference
The topic under discussion during the 6th annual ISDP-AMS conference, held December 6-8,2013, focused on the future prospects for Afghanistan after the planned withdrawal of international forces at...
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Afghanistan and its Neighbors: the Challenge of 2014
...and the current forces will be reduced. Appears in the Conference Report “Security and Development in Afghanistan After 2014 6th Annual ISDP-AMS Conference December 6-8, 2013”, Ed. David Mulrooney...