Search results for: S. Frederick Starr
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Macau’s Moment: China’s Other Special Administrative Region
…While demonstrations in Hong Kong have grown in scope and intensity this summer, little attention has been paid to China’s other former European colony turned Special Administrative Region…
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China’s Jamaica Policy: A Less Clumsy Alternative to U.S.-Taiwan Relations
…On July 8, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced a $2 billion sale of weapons to Taiwan , including M1A2T Abrams tanks, Hercules armored vehicles, and heavy…
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Challenging China’s Dominance: Japan’s Grand Strategy for Africa
…Japan’s collaborative investments in African markets are set to increase as the country attempts to offset the dominance of Chinese economic involvement on the continent. The Japanese government…
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Modernization and Regional Cooperation in Central Asia: A New Spring?
...Executive Summary Until recently, regional cooperation among Central Asian states has left much to be desired. While a number of initiatives have been launched over the past quarter-century, there...
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Abe’s Strategy in the Trump Era: Uncertainty in U.S. Policy Toward Japan
…Despite the much-publicized special relationship of U.S. President Donald Trump with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who have met about nine times (and shared three rounds of golf) since…
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Religion and the Secular State in Kazakhstan
...Executive Summary At independence, Kazakhstan shared with the successor states to the Soviet Union the challenge of replacing Soviet atheism with new state approaches to religion. Like the rest...
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Central Asia: All Together Now
...After a quarter century of independence, the fragmentation of Central Asia is evident to all. A senior official there might justifiably complain about how each country “[is] pursuing...
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Time to Re-Engage
...Whipsawed by years of foreign policy activism and then by general retreat, the United States is at risk of losing an opportunity to cement hard-won gains in Central...
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Kazakhstan 2041: the Next Twenty-Five Years
...Kazakhstan has come a long way in the twenty five years since it gained sovereignty. The leadership can point to impressive economic development, stability, strengthened sovereignty, and respect for...
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Tracking Trade-inspired Globalization Over More Than a Millennium
...This absorbing but curiously misnamed book is more than the story of the “Silk Roads” and less than a “History of the World.” Peter Frankopan, an Oxford specialist on...