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US Trade Wars and Military Globalization Spark Complex Alignments
President Trump’s new round of reciprocal and universal tariffs will escalate trade tensions, lower investment, hit market pricing, distort trade flows, disrupt supply chains,...
Why the US-Japan-ROK Alliance Faces Greater Risk in 2025 Than Cold War Europe
With the growing threat of nuclear conflict in Northeast Asia—driven by North Korea’s ability to strike the U.S. mainland with nuclear missiles—strategic concerns about...
Donald Trump and Quad’s Future
Trump 2.0 is proving consequential for long-standing alliances and multilateral security frameworks. Early this year, the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spelled out...
Transition from Passive to Proactive Diplomacy: Japan’s Strategic Partnership with Africa
Since the end of World War II, Japan has carried out a passive diplomacy strategy on the international stage, this is due to its...
Dynamics of Fukushima Nuclear Waste Policy
Currently, nuclear waste is one of the main causes of global marine environmental pollution. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the...
Ishiba Navigates Trump’s Trade Policies: Japan’s Strategy to Avoid U.S. Tariffs
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed confidence on February 9, 2025, that Japan could sidestep the looming U.S. tariff hikes. Speaking to public broadcaster...
India-Japan relations and the sub-national dimension
Authors: Gitanjali Sinha Roy and Tridivesh Singh Maini
India-Japan relations have evolved over a long period of time. This relationship has seen many transitions at...
The year of Japan-CARICOM Friendship
Last year was the Japan-CARICOM (Caribbean Community) Friendship Year, aimed at strengthening relations between Tokyo and this important 15-member bloc. Analyses about extra-regional nations...
Divergences between the U.S. and its allies over key economic issues
US President Joe Biden recently blocked the acquisition of US Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel. While commenting on his decision, Biden said:
“A strong domestically...
SQUAD: A Silver Lining For Quad?
Smaller alliances of nations or ‘minilaterals’ have become indispensable in the security architecture of the Indo-Pacific region. This article examines how SQUAD’s emergence as...