Southeast Asia Looks To India As US-China Uncertainty Grows

Security negotiations between India and its Southeast Asian neighbours have stepped up in recent months, observes Philippines-based analyst Don McLain Gill. Flexible in its engagement strategies, India has found a role as an alternative security partner for countries in the region.As uncertainty grows between the United States and China, Southeast Asia is increasingly looking towards India as a

March 3, 2025
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Increasing the Archipelagic Defense from the Philippines to Japan

Andrew Erickson and Joel Wuthnow’s article, “Why Islands Still Matter in Asia,” discusses the views of Major General Karl Ernst Haushofer, Germany’s military attaché to Japan from 1908 to 1910. They write that he regarded the “offshore island arcs of the Indo-Pacific realm as important geopolitical features providing a useful protective veil sheltering continental powers […]

Increasing the Archipelagic Defense from the Philippines to Japan was originally published on Global Security Review.

July 23, 2024
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Increasing the Archipelagic Defense from the Philippines to Japan

Andrew Erickson and Joel Wuthnow’s article, “Why Islands Still Matter in Asia,” discusses the views of Major General Karl Ernst Haushofer, Germany’s military attaché to Japan from 1908 to 1910. They write that he regarded the “offshore island arcs of the Indo-Pacific realm as important geopolitical features providing a useful protective veil sheltering continental powers […]

Increasing the Archipelagic Defense from the Philippines to Japan was originally published on Global Security Review.

July 23, 2024
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The Emerging Nuclear Scenario

The Russia-North Korea mutual security pact, Moscow’s unceasing nuclear threats, Russia’s global nuclear power sales drive, Iran’s race for nuclear weapons, and China’s “breathtaking” nuclear expansion, are the stuff of daily headlines. They all point to increasing nuclear proliferation, multiplying nuclear threats, and the emergence of an increasingly cohesive bloc of powers fully willing to […]

The Emerging Nuclear Scenario was originally published on Global Security Review.

July 9, 2024
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It Is Difficult to Break the Russia-India Link

When the Ukraine war broke out, India implemented a series of policy measures that took the West by surprise. In the United Nations General Assembly, it refused to condemn the Russian invasion and, instead, along with 34 other nations, chose to abstain from the vote. That meant that 4.4 billion people, a majority of the […]

It Is Difficult to Break the Russia-India Link was originally published on Global Security Review.

March 12, 2024
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The Mayhem Brothers: Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran

Central to the international order, which was created out of the destruction wrought in World War II, is deterrence. It is derived from the collective power found in economic, political, and military capability to cause restraint in the minds of bad actors who would otherwise engage in bad behavior. Today, international order is breaking down. […]

The Mayhem Brothers: Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran was originally published on Global Security Review.

January 4, 2024
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