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 February 6, 2017 Clouded Reassurances in Asia Last week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis made his first official foreign visit as a member of the Trump... Read more »
Geopoliticus January 11, 2017 Japan’s Precarious Position in the Asia Over the last few years, Japan’s foreign policy gained a coherence rarely seen in decades. No doubt pressure from... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 28, 2016 Getting Tougher: Vietnam’s Response to China’s South China Sea Bases Over the last few months, Vietnam has quietly deployed the components of several Extended Range Artillery (EXTRA) rocket systems... 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 April 14, 2016 China’s New Missiles and U.S. Alliances in the Asia-Pacific: The Impact of Weakening Extended Deterrence Two weeks ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a nuclear security cooperation summit in Washington. At the same time,... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 1, 2016 Chinese Accusations in the East and South China Seas “Japan always criticizes others, so how can it explain its own actions?” charged the Chinese Ministry of Defense’s spokesman... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 28, 2015 The Big Chill: Domestic Insecurities and Sino-Japanese Relations China and Japan sparred once again, this time at the United Nations. Last week, China’s ambassador for disarmament affairs... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 9, 2015 U.S. Foreign Policy Aspirations and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Economic Integration and Political Alignment? At times, it seemed as though the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would go on interminably. Begun in... 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 »