Summary An eye-opening argument for a new approach to Iran, from two of America’s most informed and influential Middle East experts Less than a decade…
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Abstract A wide range of disputes among the Persian Gulf littoral states exercerbated by the intervention of the extra-regional powers have deprived the regional states…
Summary As Iran’s nuclear program continues to evolve, U.S. decisionmakers will confront a series of critical policy choices involving complex considerations and policy trade-offs. These…
Abstract The period from the beginning of the Bush administration in January 2001 to the president’s October 2003 visit to four countries in Southeast Asia1…
Abstract Chinese and American policies toward mainland Southeast Asia exhibit interesting and complicated aspects as both great powers hedge against the future. Beijing has close…
Abstract This article examines contemporary US-Southeast Asia relations as the product of both longstanding forces and a transitioning regional system. First, it highlights systemic forces…
Abstract In his article “The Geography of Peace”, Robert Ross postulates that a bipolar regional power balance has emerged in East Asia. This theory is…
Abstract In 2010 regional security in Southeast Asia was affected by three major developments: increased tensions in Sino-American relations, U.S. re-engagement with the region, and…
Abstract The year 2009 witnessed important initiatives by the United States and China in Southeast Asia. Evidence of some sharpening of Sino-American competition to protect…
Abstract Over the past decade, the US-Japan alliance has been strengthened and subtly but substantively transformed. In response to a range of domestic changes and…
Summary In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore,…
Abstract The Asian Pacific region is highly unstable, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Contrary to the assertions of Realists, who argue multipolarity makes…
Abstract Both New Delhi and Washington have rhetorically invoked the unique ties between “the world’s oldest and largest democracies.” It is time for both countries…
Abstract India is on the verge of becoming a great power and the swing state in the international system. As a large, multiethnic, economically powerful,…
