Search results for: S. Frederick Starr
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Europe’s Pivot to India: Examining India’s NATO Calculus Amid China’s Fall from Grace
...This article was originally posted on TRENDS Research and Advisory’s website, you can find the article (and the references named in the article) here. India’s so-called “strategic ambivalence”...
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Turkey’s Problem Isn’t Sweden. It’s the United States.
...The issue isn’t what Sweden says or does but what the United States does or fails to do on the ground in Syria that matters for Turkey’s national security...
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Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit: Has It Burdened Japan’s Taiwan Trajectory?
...Of late, Japan has been expediting the process of breaking its strategic silence on the contentious Taiwan Strait. Taiwan’s status, as China repeatedly remarks , is a “red line”...
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Three Decades of India’s Eastward Engagement: China’s Perceptions and Responses
...Abstract: This issue brief looks into China’s perceptions and responses to India’s Act East Policy. It argues that China sees India’s Act East Policy in three phases – the...
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China’s BRI Diplomacy: What it Means to India and India’s Rise
...Introduction: In the post-COVID-19 world order, particularly, amidst intensifying great power competition and changing regional and global power dynamics, infrastructural advancement has taken on new and expanded significance. However,...
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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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Taiwan: Tokyo’s New Ally?
...In December 2022, the back-to-back visits by senior Japanese lawmakers, Koichi Hagiuda, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Policy Research Council chairman, and Hiroshige Seko, the upper house secretary...
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South Korea’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: Ambitions and Reality
...South Korea launched its Indo-Pacific Strategy, the so-called “Strategy for a Free, Peaceful, and Prosperous Indo-Pacific Region,” in December 2022. The strategy has rightly attracted widespread attention, not least...
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Understanding North Korea’s Resilience through Economy, Laws and Governance: a review of introductory sources and essential monographs
...This article reviews contributions that may help researchers re-evaluate the question of the North Korea’s remarkable resilience in spite of its undeniable economic failure, a seemingly obscure legal system,...
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ASEAN’s Evolving Alignment Strategy in the South China Sea: Between Middle and Major Power Dynamics
...ASEAN is a region of vital strategic importance where the United States’ Indo-Pacific strategy and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) collide. To avert geopolitical uncertainty and to avoid...