Asia American distrust vis-à-vis North Korea’s desperation and dismal reputation: A poor negotiating cocktail May 13, 2019 0 Written by Liang Tuang Nah. Image Credit: North Korea - Flag by Roman Harak/Flickr, License CC BY-SA 2.0. Following the failure of the second summit between…
Afghanistan India’s Afghanistan dilemma and the way forward April 26, 2019 0 Written by Maroof Raza. India’s role in the future of Afghanistan – in the aftermath of a US withdrawal, which looks quite certain following President Trump’s…
China The implications of expanding Chinese global access February 20, 2019 1 Written by Bert Chapman. Section 1259b of the US 2018 defence spending law (Public Law 115-91) directed the US Defense and State Departments to assess the…
Asia The value of soft power in foreign policy February 18, 2019 1 Written by Sabena Siddiqui. Underestimating the value of ‘soft power’ is the worst mistake any nation can make in this age of constant communication and…
China The China factor in US-DPRK negotiations November 27, 2018 0 Written by Rorry Daniels. Although the world generally applauds the upward trajectory of the rapprochement between North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: DPRK),…
North Korea Denuclearising North Korea: an intractable process November 26, 2018 0 Written by Liang Tuang Nah. Recently, the Kim regime in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has threatened to resume the development of the…
India India’s Response to Its Strategic Conundrum September 28, 2018 0 Written by Saurabh Mishra. Under new geopolitical pressures, India is undergoing a reconfiguration of its relationship with the major powers of the world. Relations with…
Asia India paces towards building Regional Security Architectures, not Alliances September 25, 2018 0 Written by Pooja Bhatt. India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s recent four day visit in August 2018 to Vietnam and Cambodia has seen a deepening…
Asia Sino-Indian Relations: Rapprochement in the Indo-Pacific? August 27, 2018 1 Written by Lorenzo Di Muro. Sino-Indian relations provide a glimpse of the intricate interaction between geopolitics and economy. Paradoxically, China is India’s current top trading…
Cambodia The Spiral Repetitions of Cambodia’s 2018 General Election August 9, 2018 0 Written by Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim. The Marxian observation that historical events repeat “first as tragedy, then as farce” identifies a particular type of spiral repetition…
