High-Stakes Drama: The South China Sea Disputes
*Author, Mark J. Valencia is a Research Associate with the Nautilus Institute and can be contacted at mjvalencia@gmail.com. The latest act in the long-running saga of the South China Sea has seen China moving aggressively to enforce its claim to most of the features of the potentially oil-rich sea while the US ‘rebalanced’ its defense […]
Compete or Co-operate? India, China and the ‘Asian Century’
*Author, Dr. Rupakjyoti Borah is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the School of Liberal Studies, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gujarat, India. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK in 2009. The views expressed in this article are personal. He can be contacted at rupakjyoti.b@sls.pdpu.ac.in For […]
Russia Looks South As Well As East
*Author, Mihoko Kato is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, and GCOE Research Fellow at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan. ASEAN-Russia: Foundations and Future Prospects Edited by Victor Sumsky, Mark Hong and Amy Lugg Singapore: ISEAS Publications, 2012, 376 pages, S$59.90/US$52.90 (Softcover) SINCE VLADIVOSTOK WAS CHOSEN as the venue of […]
A (Multi) Polar Bear? Russia’s Bid for Influence in Asia
*Author, Stephen Blank is a professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College. The views expressed here are his own. Russia’s call for a multipolar world, where power doesn’t reside with a single hegemon such as the US, is a veiled bid to exert Russian influence in Asia and the world at a […]
A Distant Neighbor: Russia’s Search to Find Its Place in East Asia
*Author, Tsuneo Akaha is Professor of International Policy Studies and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. HISTORICALLY, EAST ASIAN countries have tended to see Russia as a “distant neighbor” with a distinct civilization — neither European nor Asian — and political and strategic interests […]
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