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When the U.S. occupied Japan from 1945 to 1952, it established military bases in Okinawa. When the occupation ended in 1952, Japan…
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When the U.S. occupied Japan from 1945 to 1952, it established military bases in Okinawa. When the occupation ended in 1952, Japan…
Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research interests…
A blunt assertion of political intent that rides roughshod over the sensibilities of friend and foe alike the 2025 National Security Strategy…
Five years ago, I published an article titled “The State of China’s Soft Power in 2020”. In its opening, I noted that…
When the Kenyan-born academic Ali A. Mazrui stepped onto the global stage of scholarship in the 1960s, the study of international relations…
Over the past decade, China has substantially increased its security engagements across Africa – from peacekeeping and naval patrols to military training…
In January 1968, North Korean special forces penetrated the very heart of Seoul in order to assassinate South Korean president Park Chung-hee.…
The normalisation of Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara by the United Nations (UN) Security Council, as envisaged by Resolution 2797, adopted at…
Election observation has become a staple of “credibility-assurance” in international relations. Formal poll watching is almost as old as democratic elections themselves.…
The Trump Administration recently reaffirmed support for AUKUS – the high tech security pact between the US, UK and Australia initially unveiled…