The political awakening of Burma/ Myanmar is one of the most important, and positive, developments in Southeast Asian and global affairs. One of the major…
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The success of India as a major emerging power in the coming years will rely heavily on its ability to achieve and maintain energy security.…
Continue reading India’s Energy Security Challenges: An Insider’s View
The South China Sea is one of the great connecting oceans of the world, acting as a major conduit of Asian and global trade. It…
Continue reading Conflict Over the South China Sea: Identity Politics Meets History
The car bomb targeted at an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi has accentuated the ongoing tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and the imposition of sanctions…
Continue reading India Ponders Response to Bomb Plot in New Delhi
WASHINGTON — The visit by China’s vice president, Xi Jinping, to Washington this coming week offers a unique opportunity to take the measure of the…
A subversive pragmatic vision is increasingly challenging some of the key foundations of India’s traditional nationalist and left-of-center foreign policy, diluting the consensus that shaped…
Report of a conference organized by the IPCS in collaboration with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University on 21 February 2011. Prof.…
Report of a conference organized by the IPCS in collaboration with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University on 21 February 2011. Prof.…
Continue reading Conference Report on Identity and Asian Powers
2009—2010 will be remembered as the years in which China became difficult for the world to deal with, as Beijing exhibited increasingly tough and truculent…
Continue reading Coping with a Conflicted China by David Shambaugh in The Washington Quarterly
Few observers of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program anticipated a breakthrough from the Istanbul meeting between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the six major…
Continue reading Tehran’s Hardliners Effectively Declare Nuclear Talks Dead
Mike Mochizuki, Associate Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and holds the Japan-US Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston…
What are the prospects for the development of an Asian regional community? How might identity influence the formation of that community? Will this emerging community…
Continue reading A Comparative Analysis of Identity and Regional Cooperation in Asia
Examining domestic foreign policy debates within rising powers provides insights into how these countries will behave as they rise. Five important rising powers in the…
Continue reading Rising Powers and Domestic Attitudes on Hard Power
The first Confucius Institute (CI) opened its doors in Seoul, South Korea on November 24, 2004. Since then, the number of these Chinese cultural outposts…
Among the most contested questions in Indian foreign policy today are those related to the extent and type of power that India should use to…
