Publications

Education about Asia Taiwan Nation-State or Province? (Seventh Edition) By John Franklin Copper London: Routledge, 2019 366 Pages, ISBN: 978-1138337749, Paperback Reviewed by Thomas J. Shattuck For reasons both good and bad, 2020 has perhaps been a banner year...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy project to expand the People’s Republic of China’s investment and trade ties in order to create “a big family of harmonious coexistence.” Hailed as...

Divergent Options National Security Situation:  Taiwan requires options to better compete with China in international organizations below the threshold of conflict. Background:  One of the key national security priorities of the People’s Republic of China is to force Taiwan...

The following is a report summarizing an event on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan, featuring: Aaron Stein, Director of Research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; Maia Otarashvili, Deputy Director of the Eurasia Program at the...

We know for a fact from polling that this is not an election in which major foreign policy issues or the differing worldviews of the candidates are looming large in the minds of voters. Where these issues do creep...

Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law This report was undertaken by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), in conjunction with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), to address serious concerns about...

The past two weeks have seen an explosion of tense fighting and conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. The region has been populated by ethnic Armenians for years, and since the fall of the Soviet Union, it has...

The post-Cold War period, defined by American leadership promoting garowing integration under a liberal framework—a process aided by changes and developments in technology—is giving way to a new epoch, in which the rise of other major powers, coupled with...

According to geologists, rare earths are not rare, but they are precious. The answer to what appears to be a riddle lies in accessibility. Comprising 17 elements that are used extensively in both consumer electronics and national defense equipment,...

For nearly two decades, diplomats from Southeast Asian countries and China have met to discuss the implementation of a “code of conduct” for the South China Sea. The goal of that code is to manage the tensions that may...