Occupy Central/Sunflower: Popular Resistance in Greater China
Since early October, many of us have been mesmerized by scenes of the student-led “Occupy Central” or “Umbrella Movement”...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Occupy Central/Sunflower: Popular Resistance in Greater China
A nation must think before it acts.
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Reviving the Global Democratic Momentum
I want to begin by thanking Amb. Adrian Basora and the Foreign Policy Research Institute for organizing this meeting....
Weaponizing Ebola?
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to...
Even Indonesia: Concerns over China’s Reach in the South China Sea
China’s maritime disputes with its Asian neighbors over the Senkaku Islands, the Spratly Islands, and the Paracel Islands have...
GCC’s Defense Cooperation: Moving towards Unity
For more than 30 years, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has attempted to establish a collective defense regime to...
World War I and the Transformation of the World
This summer marked the centennial of the outbreak of World War I, perhaps the most transformative war in history....
International Relations in a Time of Accelerating Dynamic Instability
What do the rise of the “Islamic State,” the ebola epidemic, and widespread political polarization and gridlock have in...
The Debate Over Foreign Funding of U.S. Think Tanks
Or Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Staff Member of a Think Tank? The recent...
Winning the War of Ideas in the Arab World: A View from the UAE
World Foreign Ministers have just met in Paris to decide how to defeat ISIS. But military action is only...
China’s Military: What’s New? And What’s Next?
RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS As the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) enters 2015, it can take pride in several years of impressive...