Words Without Money: China as the Ambivalent UN Power
Over the past year, China has been quietly shifting its stance within the international system. The People’s Republic of...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Words Without Money: China as the Ambivalent UN Power
A nation must think before it acts.
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Inside China’s Cognitive Warfare Playbook Against Taiwan
China has been increasing pressure on Taiwan below the threshold of a traditional military attack throughout the past decade....
I-See-BMs: Chinese Nuclear Policy Under Xi Jinping
In 2021, open-source intelligence efforts revealed a surprising discovery using commercial satellite imagery: China was building at least two...
Debt, Decree, and Development: Kuwait’s Unnoticed Transitions
In recent decades, the Gulf states, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, have adopted a distinct...
China’s Cyber Playbook for the Indo-Pacific
Cyber operations are now a defining feature of modern warfare, as the war in Ukraine has demonstrated—and China is...
Taiwan Relations Act in a New Era of Security Cooperation
For a document intended to carefully outline relations with a key US partner while navigating a region’s complex history...
Japan’s Immigration Policy and the Kurdish Population
In a 2024 article on Japan’s changing refugee policy in the Asia-Pacific Journal, Maximilien Xavier Rehm, a researcher at...
Erosion of the Norm of Using Chemical Weapons
The global norm against chemical weapons, bolstered by international disarmament initiatives and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), stands as...
Strengthening Pacific Security: US Shiprider Agreements
Shiprider Agreements and the US Coast Guard Early last year, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) cutter Harriet Lane,...
Toward a Balanced Approach: How Should the US Engage With An Increasingly Powerful Rwanda?
Rwanda—the small, landlocked country in East Africa known colloquially as the “land of a thousand hills”—has arguably gained outsized...