The Flawed Hope of Sufi Promotion in North Africa
Sufism has been repeatedly invoked in U.S. foreign policy circles as a possible ideological counterbalance to extremist ideologies in...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Flawed Hope of Sufi Promotion in North Africa
A nation must think before it acts.
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South Korea’s Lurking Dangers: From Impeachment to Foreign Policy Paralysis
South Korea is marooned in perilous seas with its ship in more danger of careening off course than at...
Japanese Media on the Impact of Donald Trump’s Election on Japan and China
The ASAN Forum Japanese awakened to Donald Trump’s victory in disbelief, coining the label “Trump shock” to go with...
Facing China: Policy Challenges for the Trump Administration in East Asia
The ASAN Forum As Donald J. Trump comes to power as the 45th president of the United States, he...
Will Donald Trump Be A Good President?
Wallet Hub In foreign policy, Trump has decades of experience in business negotiations, with his large fortune indicative of...
The Return of Hard Power
War on the Rocks Part of me would like to think that Eliot Cohen’s new book, The Big Stick,...
Trump, Putin, and the Art of Appeasement
The Atlantic Donald Trump’s Russia strategy is based on making a series of one-sided concessions in the hopes of...
Japan-Russia Relations: Implications for the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA A breakthrough between Japan and Russia is being vigorously pursued in 2016. Sixty years after...
Seventy-five Years Ago: Remembering Pearl Harbor and a World at War
The seventy-fifth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor offers an opportunity to look back on the world-changing events...
Donald Trump’s Excellent Middle East Adventure
Auguste Comte once asserted that intellectual confusion lay at the basis of every historical crisis. Whatever Comte’s own confusions...