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Elections in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: The Challenges of Retaining Power
On January 10, Kazakhstan held elections for its lower house while Kyrgyzstan held presidential elections and a national referendum on constitutional amendments. While the elections in Kazakhstan were the usual stage-managed affair designed to maintain the decades-old political status...
Read more »Emerging Technologies and National Rejuvenation
In introducing the special Fall 2020 Orbis issue on emerging technologies and national security, guest editor Lawrence Rubin highlighted the importance of “novel technologies, including quantum technologies (such as advanced computing), autonomy, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), hypersonic weapons, biotechnologies,...
Read more »Exit from a Sparse Hegemony: Central Asia’s Place in a Transforming Liberal International Order
As Joe Biden takes office, many people are optimistic that he can restore international confidence in the United States and return America to its proper place as a global leader. But that may not be possible. In our book...
Read more »Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
Access the Winter 2021 issue of Orbis here IN REVIEW, Michael R. Auslin, Asia’s New Geopolitics, Hoover Institute Press, 2020. ...
Read more »Observations of a Well-Rounded Diplomat
Access the Winter 2021 issue of Orbis here IN REVIEW, Robert B. Zoellick, America in the World: A History of U.S. ...
Read more »The Iran Coup That Never Dies
Access the Winter 2021 issue of Orbis here Abstract The 1953 coup in Iran that toppled the nationalist Prime Minister ...
Read more »Iran’s Geopolitics and Revolutionary Export: The Promises and Limits of the Proxy Empire
Access the Winter 2021 issue of Orbis here Abstract From its inception in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has ...
Read more »The Global Communitarian Deficit
Access the Winter 2021 issue of Orbis here Abstract This article uses the sociological/philosophical theory of liberal communitarianism to analyze ...
Read more »Back with a Vengeance: The Return of Rough and Tumble Geopolitics
Access the Winter 2021 issue of Orbis here Abstract Too many Western policymakers in the United States and across the ...
Read more »Stuck in the Middle: Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry, the U.S.-China Tech Fight, and Cross-Strait Stability
Access the Winter 2021 issue of Orbis here Abstract The Trump administration has worked to restrict the People’s Republic of ...
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