Search results for: S. Frederick Starr
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Security in the Asia-Pacific: Japan’s Options Amid U.S.-Chinese Tensions
...in the Pacific Ocean and resulted in the Washington Naval Treaty. Signed into law in 1922 by the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Japan, the treaty limited the...
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It’s Time to Enact Japan’s Magnitsky Act
...This article was originally published in the Diplomat. Such legislation would boost Japan’s credentials as a defender of human rights and practitioner of values-based diplomacy. On January 27, a...
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The BRI vs FOIP: Japan’s Countering of China’s Global Ambitions
...Abstract With the Donald Trump administrated U.S. turning inwards, the world saw Japan taking a step forward on the global stage during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s tenure. Not only...
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Beijing’s Foothold in Central America: El Salvador’s Diplomatic Realignment
...Introduction The diplomatic struggle between China and Taiwan, officially the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (RoC) respectively, has intensified in recent years. Under the...
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Poems that Decode Japan’s Intellectual DNA: The Ambassador’s choice
...stationed, bilateral issues relating to their home countries and protocol. However, sometimes language barriers, the economic and political importance of the country in question, its peculiar social norms and strong...
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Illusion’s End: Erdoğan and Turkey’s Coming Economic Chill
...The rapid depreciation in the value of the Turkish Lira since the beginning of 2018 is the product not only of the collapse of any remaining vestiges of...
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Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum and Erdogan’s Faded Democratic Credentials
...campaign that preceded it fall short of democratic norms but the Turkish authorities’ refusal to investigate the numerous reports of fraud and apparent irregularities suggests that the regime no longer...
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Redefining Russia’s Pivot and China’s Peripheral Diplomacy
...On January 17 and 18, 2017, Dr. Niklas Swanström participated in a workshop held by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, on Russia and China and their impact on...
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Turkey’s Proposed Constitutional Changes and Erdoğan’s Forever War
...Tayyip Erdoğan, leading to the introduction of a full presidential system in November 2019. Yet recent events have shown that the more power Erdoğan exercises, the worse the situation in...
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People’s or Party’s Army in Vietnam?
...While the Vietnam Communist Party’s grip over the army remains strong, Zachary Abuza examines the growing calls challenging the Vietnam People’s Army’s duty to defend the ruling party over...