Grand Strategy & Competition

At the Quad Leaders’ summit in Tokyo, the leaders of the United States, Japan, Australia, and India re-affirmed their commitment to “a free and open Indo-Pacific” (FOIP) based on…

China is pursuing a concerted strategy to isolate Taiwan internationally and intimidate it and its would-be supporters militarily. But Australia—a critical US ally in the region—has responded to China’s strategies…

Beijing and Moscow’s new-era strategic partnership of coordination reflects their shared insecurity and vulnerability in the U.S.-led global order. Their partnership is a declaration of joint counterbalancing on the global…

Despite increased attention paid to Afghanistan and Ukraine over the past nine months, the focus of U.S. foreign policy must remain on China, the sole long-term competitor to the United…

In recent decades, it has become increasingly clear that the United States is no longer the sole international superpower. China, the world’s second largest economy, has risen in wealth, prestige,…

From Australia to India, to South Korea and Vietnam, countries throughout the Indo-Pacific are pushing back against an increasingly assertive China. The geopolitical development that could prove most significant in…

The Second Space Race primarily concerns economic and national security, and although many nations hope to contribute to the development of this space economy as well as to the establishment…

This is part two in a dialogue series with Professor Dougherty on Russia’s regional policies and their impact on the United States’ security and diplomacy. Recently, relations between…

In the wake of tensions in Ukraine, the migrant crisis in Belarus, and potential sanctions on Nord Stream 2, the world is speculating how Russia’s regional policies will…

Relations between China and western nations have been strained for centuries, and both sides have sought out various models of economic interdependence. As China reaches a new, challenging…