Geopoliticus March 26, 2018 Afghanistan Achieves Pyrrhic Success via Chabahar Port Afghans celebrated the new access that Iran’s Chabahar port provides the country, but this victory may turn out to... Read more »
Geopoliticus December 11, 2017 What’s in a Name?: Strategy Behind the “Indo-Pacific” Throughout his tour of Asia in November 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly referred to the region through which... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 13, 2017 Conflict Escalation: China and India’s Territorial Dispute in the Himalayas During the summer of 2017, an unusually volatile territorial spat between China and India erupted in the Himalayan Mountains.... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 12, 2017 Selling Out the Rohingyas In the past several weeks, much attention has been devoted to the abject plight of the minority, predominantly Muslim,... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 24, 2016 China’s Encirclement Concerns For almost two decades, Chinese strategists have worried about what they regard as the geopolitical encirclement of China. At... Read more »
Geopoliticus December 29, 2015 China’s “One Belt, One Road” to Where? During visits to Central and Southeast Asia in 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled Beijing’s aspiration to create what... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 20, 2015 The Almost-Normal Country: Japan and the Use of Force The enactment of Japan’s new national security bills was a long time in the making. The bills, already passed... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 16, 2015 Modi Flexes His Muscles: India’s Cross-Border Raid into Myanmar June 16, 2015 Last Tuesday, India launched a punitive raid into Myanmar. Seventy commandos from the Indian 21 Para... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 27, 2015 Strategic Intentions: China’s Military Strategy White Paper On Tuesday, China published its latest defense white paper. Unlike its’ eight predecessors, this document was the first time that... Read more »
Geopoliticus January 7, 2015 Decline in Oil Prices, Currency Pairs, and National Power Last autumn, headlines began to declare national “winners and losers” from the precipitous drop in oil prices over the... Read more »