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China contributes to doubts about Pakistani crackdown on militants
China, at the behest of Pakistan, has for the second time this year prevented the United Nations from listing a prominent Pakistani militant as...
Trump’s Hidden Agenda in North Korea
It has been a week of barking out military options, a week of 'everything is on the table', a week of threats no longer...
Is There Such A Thing As “Ethnic Conflict”?
“Ethnic conflict“ has become a very fashionable notion. However, it was not always so. Indeed, in the not-so-distant past such a notion was practically...
The Gulf crisis produces snail-pace social change and a dangerous arms race
A two-month old crisis pitting Qatar against an alliance led by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia is proving to be a double-edged...
Read the new Journal of Rising Powers
Welcome to the second issue of the inaugural year of the Journal of Rising Powers. In our first issue, we focused a great diversity...
Why does China need a “support” base in Djibouti?
For four decades since 1949, Chinese government vowed not to send a single soldier abroad during the peacetime. This statement sounds credible because the...
Playing with Fire: Trump’s Iran policy risks cloning North Korea
As US President Donald J. Trump gropes with a set of bad options for responding to North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear and ballistic missiles...
Only U.S. Deep State Oligarchs Want World War III
As long as the Deep State Oligarchs can continue to use the Citizens United supreme court case to bribe the entire U.S. Congress and...
Xi Jinping’s military doctrine: Confidence, competence and commitment
Authors: Wang Li & Kripendra Amatya In modern history, the great powers of the West rarely discussed Chinese military favorably, because although it was...
Do CIA and BND punish Recep T. Erdogan?
Erdogan’s recent motives and cornerstone foreign policy objectives are really problematic for the former allies of Ankara. The more Ankara pushes for an independent...