Tag: Grand Strategy & Competition

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Global Governance

Biological Weapons Convention: In the Crosshairs of Geopolitical Tensions, Part 2

The Road to the BWC Review Conference At the General Assembly’s First Committee meeting in October 2022, Russia claimed its questions about “military and biological…

May 17, 2023

Dialogues

The Neglected Historical Origins of Global Economic Governance: A Conversation with Jamie Martin

GJIA: How did you come about writing your book, The Meddlers? JM: The fundamental question posed by The Meddlers, as I began research on it, was how did the international…

May 3, 2023

Conflict & Security

Engagement, not Entanglement: India’s Relationship with the Quad

Understanding the Quad As the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific continue to dominate global headlines, discussions on the Quad remain rife. The concept of the Quad was sown in a…

May 1, 2023

Global Governance

Decoding Sino-American Relations Through A Dualist Account of Threat Perception

  China and the United States have an increasingly hostile relationship. The recent Chinese balloon shoot-down is one of the many examples of strained US perceptions of the…

April 20, 2023

Business & Economics

Leveraging Climate Finance for the Global South: A Case Study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

At the end of July 2022, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) attracted global opprobrium when it announced an auction for oil and gas leasing rights to thirty parcels of…

April 5, 2023

Global Governance

US Diplomacy and the Pacific Islands: Risk of Over-Promising and Under-Delivering

As the former US Ambassador to the Republic of Palau—a small but strategic nation in the second island chain of the Pacific—I believe our relationship with the region is on a…

February 9, 2023

Global Governance

A Rework of the P5 as a Cornerstone for Peace Through Multilateralism

The drafters of the UN Charter laid the foundation for strong multilateralism by expecting the winners of World War II to collectively use their individual know-how for the…

December 19, 2022

Global Governance

High-tech Policy and its Potential to Roil US Alliances in Northeast Asia

Economic security plays an ever-expanding role in every country’s national security. Of particular importance is the concept of resilience – ensuring that a country is not…

December 12, 2022

Business & Economics

Will the Belt and Road Initiative Be Another Casualty of the Pandemic?

China’s grand infrastructure development strategy, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, at least when measured by the amount…

November 11, 2022

Global Governance

NATO, the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, and the 2022 Strategic Concept

The 2022 Strategic Concept The Russian invasion of Ukraine forced NATO to update its core tasks with a new Strategic Concept more attuned to the modern threat environment. NATO…

November 9, 2022