Search results for: S. Frederick Starr
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Turkey’s Emergency Election: The Primacy of Raison d’etat
...It is not President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “power hunger” that accounts for Turkey’s snap presidential and general election. Instead, raison d’état is behind this event, which will enshrine presidential...
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Amending Japan’s Pacifist Constitution
...Summary Japan’s 1947 constitution has lasted longer without amendment than any other constitution in the world. It has been called the “pacifist constitution” because of Article 9’s renunciation of...
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U.S.-ROK Military Exercises: Provocation or Possibility?
...Summary Joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea have been a longstanding component of the two countries’ defense alliance. Though they are important for maintaining a deterrence,...
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Political Reform in Mirziyoyev’s Uzbekistan: Elections, Political Parties and Civil Society
...Executive Summary Since taking over from long-time President Islam Karimov in 2016, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has pursued an aggressive policy to transform Uzbekistan’s decision-making processes, invigorate civil society, encourage...
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China’s Role in UN Peacekeeping
...Summary From the 1980s China has a more active foreign policy agenda and by the 1990s is contributing personnel to UN Peacekeeping missions. China is now the second largest...
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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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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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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...