Among China’s rivals in the South China Sea, Vietnam stands out with the most intense experiences and the greatest interests. If the South China Sea…
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For the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, RPI Director Deepa Ollapally wrote a piece on India’s progress towards great power status in India Abroad. Read…
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Dr. Deepa Ollapally, director of the Rising Powers Initiative and a research professor of international affairs at GWU, argued in an article on Scroll.in that “it…
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Dr. Deepa M. Ollapally, Research Professor of International Affairs and Associate Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, testified before…
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Dr. Deepa M. Ollapally, Research Professor of International Affairs and Associate Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, testified before…
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Summary The major international structural changes over the last 25 years—the end of the Cold War and rapid ascent of China—have direct impact on India’s…
Abstract How well do theories of economic interdependence and structural realism explain the India-China divergence between growing economic relations and continuing strategic mistrust? This article…
Worldviews of Aspiring Powers provides a serious study of the domestic foreign policy debates in five world powers who have gained more influence as the Us’s…
Abstract Over the course of the last decade, students of Chinese foreign relations have engaged in an extended, and often rather breathless, debate over the…
Abstract This article argues that India’s foreign policy preferences cannot be understood without referring to its state identity as it has evolved over time. The…
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Abstract The prevailing wisdom in International Relations literature that foreign policies of states may be understood without reference to their history, political values or culture,…
Despite Washington’s efforts to gain India’s unwavering support for its rebalancing or so-called pivot to the Asia-Pacific, New Delhi’s backing nevertheless remains reluctant. At first…
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As Narushige Michishita and I have argued, after decades of accepting U.S. supremacy in Asia as the foundation of its foreign and security policies, finding…
A relatively small chain of islands in the East China Sea has been the focal point of potential maritime conflict between Taiwan (R.O.C.), China (P.R.C.),…
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No matter who wins the American presidency and who fills the new Chinese Politburo, on November 6 and 8 respectively, the world can expect a…
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