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China Stops Putting Economics First
David DenoonTensions with Japan led China’s leaders to stay away from a meeting of global finance chiefs held in Tokyo last week. This is an example of China’s increasingly assertive foreign policy,...
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AirSea Battle Isn't about China
T. X. HammesDiscussing the impact of AirSea Battle requires first figuring out what it is. The fact that AirSea Battle was initially a classified—but frequently talked about—program of the air force...
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China's Inadvertent Empire
Raffaello PantucciAlexandros PetersenA Chinese road crew works in Tajikistan.PRESIDENT OBAMA’S late 2011 announcement of his administration’s pivot to Asia marked a sea change in America’s geopolitical...
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Asia's New Age of Instability
Michael WesleyA CENTRAL theme in the Obama administration’s recent foreign-policy narrative has been that the United States is returning to Asia after a decade of distractions in the Middle East. It is...
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GCC Expansion at a Time of Arab Turmoil
Ahmed CharaiIn May 2011, the Gulf Cooperation Council—an alliance composed of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and the UAE—announced a landmark decision: after thirty years as a...
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U.S.-India Cyber Diplomacy: A Waiting Game
Franz-Stefan GadyThe Indian National Security Council Secretariat recently released recommendations by a joint public-private working group on cybersecurity that aimed to strengthen India’s capability...
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Toward an India-Pakistan Détente
Bruce RiedelWith little attention outside South Asia, Indian and Pakistani leaders have moved to gradually improve trade and transportation links this year, despite the still-bitter wounds of the 2008...
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Russia: Friend or Foe?
Anya SchmemannIn last week's foreign-policy debate, while many countries and regions were left unmentioned, Russia was invoked ten times.GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney defended his assertion...
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Beyond Allies and Adversaries
Ted Galen CarpenterMitt Romney’s generally lackluster performance in the presidential debate on foreign policy did feature a fairly spirited attack on the Obama administration’s handling of Middle East...
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Nationalism Returns in Europe
Nikolas K. GvosdevParliamentary elections held recently in Ukraine confirmed an ongoing trend in Europe. Extreme right-wing parties are crossing the threshold of electoral acceptability and becoming...
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Careful What You Wish For
James Jay CarafanoWhen President Obama gets back to the Oval Office, the challenges of foreign affairs will look pretty much the same as they did before the election. And while all presidents would...
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Erdogan Pays for His Foreign Policy
Halil KaraveliImage: Valeriy Osipov.Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is used to prevailing over his foes. The once all-powerful Turkish generals who defied him now linger in prison. By all...
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Behind Sino-Japanese Tensions
Robert A. ManningAn anti-China rally in Japan in 2010. Flickr/Jacob Ehnmark.It just won’t go away—and it may be Asia’s contemporary equivalent to Archduke Ferdinand, whose assassination sparked World...
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A New Approach for Kashmir
Christine FairSumit GangulyA Pakistani border guard. Flickr/Imtiaz W. Ahmed.As the Obama administration assumes office for a second and final term, it will continue to confront various protracted...
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Turkey Gives Politics a Chance
Kemal KirisciLate last month, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called to apologize to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the death of Turkish citizens during a military operation...
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Rational and Reckless Alliances
Ted Galen CarpenterCritics have complained for decades about the willingness of America’s allies to free ride on the security efforts of the United States. U.S. demands for greater burden sharing by...
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Entrapment and Abandonment in Asia
Joseph A. BoscoAmerican and Asian strategic thinkers are beginning to use terms like "entrapment" and "abandonment" to reflect contrasting concerns over U.S. defense commitments in the Asia-Pacific.The...
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Road to Damascus Runs Through Tehran
Amitai EtzioniIran, a state that is known to support terrorists and insurgent groups, has its tentacles in several states throughout the Middle East. Trying to pry one loose, even if successful, will...
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U.S., China Drift Toward Zero Sum
Robert A. ManningFor all the soaring rhetoric of the Obama-Xi Summit about the US and China committing to forge a bold, new partnership and avoiding a 1914-like stumbling into conflict, one could be...
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U.S.-India Cyber Diplomacy: A Waiting Game
Franz-Stefan GadyThe Indian National Security Council Secretariat recently released recommendations by a joint public-private working group on cybersecurity that aimed to strengthen India’s capability...
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