Search results for: S. Frederick Starr
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Breaking the Mould: Trump’s China Policy
...Summary Following the National Security Strategy (NSS) released in December and Donald Trump’s recent statements at Davos, tensions between China and the U.S. have only increased. Is it already...
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China’s Presidential Election: The Role of the NPC
...Summary • This year begins the inauguration of the 13th NPC, which will run until March 2023. • China’s NPC of around 3,000 delegates will meet in March 2018...
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The U.S. and Turkey: Past the Point of No Return?
...With Ankara and Washington on a collision course in northern Syria, both sides will have to rethink their priorities if they want to salvage an increasingly hollow alliance....
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Uzbekistan’s New Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity under New Leadership
...Since Uzbekistan gained independence in 1991, its government has sought to maximize its national security and sovereignty by limiting dependence on foreign actors. This priority has continued under former...
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Erdogan’s Turkey: The Role Of A Little Known Islamist Poet
...When President Trump announced that the US had recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the region prepared for violence. Aside from a few days of sporadic protests, relatively little happened....
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The Great Rejuvenation? China’s Search for a New ‘Global Order’
...Executive Summary This Asia Paper explores how China, a ‘partial’ global power, can set the agenda and determine the rules in a global order dominated by a declining yet...
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Reforming South Korea’s “Imperial Presidency”
...South Korea’s constitution vests too much power in the office of the president, which raises the risk of the post being misused. This was brought dramatically into focus earlier...
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Bad Solutions in a Complex Situation: China’s Relations with North Korea
...China’s relations with North Korea are complex with a variety of bad choices and suboptimal solutions. It could be argued that the actor that has lost most in the...
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Sounds, Silences and Turkey’s Crumbling Core
...Since the failed coup of July 2016, Turkey’s spiralling descent ever deeper into authoritarianism has been characterized by arbitrary arrests and widespread abuses of even the draconian powers...
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The European Union’s Political and Security Engagement with Central Asia: How to Move Forward
...Despite an ambitious set of policy initiatives for Central Asia, the EU is punching below its weight in a region where Russia and China are far more influential....