Facing the Biggest Challenges of Our Generation
- Analysis
- December 18, 2018
May 2020 was a turning point in East Asia. President Tsai Ing-wen (Democratic Progressive Party, DPP) was inaugurated to her second term as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Two days later, China’s National People’s Congress proposed legislation authorizing …
READ MOREThe re-election of Tsai Ying-wen to the Presidency of Taiwan this
last January 11 represents a rare shining
moment in the Indo-Pacific region, as populist leaders ruling India and the
Philippines preside over a deterioration of democracy in the region. …
After spending years belittling and undermining the western world’s principal military alliance, during his recent trip to London to celebrate the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) 70th birthday, President Trump sounded a different tune. Instead of continuing his attack on …
READ MOREThirty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world is a very different place. The liberal world order that appeared triumphant in 1989 faces unprecedented challenges – including renewed hostility from Russia – but also from a …
READ MOREMost modern warfare is intrastate. Most take place in poorer, weaker states and challenge many of our assumptions about the evolution of most states. Foreign policymakers should reevaluate their priorities and focus on ending civil wars rather than building centralised …
READ MOREWill Outer Space become a new frontier for international conflict? Or can it remain a global commons? As states dither, this question may soon be taken over by other actors.
I confess that I gave this blog its title with …
READ MOREIn October 2017, a commemorative plaque “In Memory …
READ MOREEconomic policies enacted under neoliberalism have often failed to meet their objectives, but have remained unchallenged. …
READ MOREFor nearly three years, we have been researching …
READ MOREI was on the lookout for Russians when I should have been looking for icebergs. As part of …
READ MOREA new era is dawning in Japan. With the abdication of Emperor Akihito on 30 April and the ascension of his Crown Prince Naruhito to the Chrysanthemum Throne on 1 May, calendars will change from the 31st year of …
READ MOREThis 2-part CIPS blog is based on my guest presentation at a seminar for graduating trainee diplomats at the Institute of International Relations (IIR), University of West Indies, Trinidad, on 20 March 2019. The session was led jointly with Professor …
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