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