Tag: Grand Strategy & Competition
69 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Russia and Turkey Deconflict Their Geopolitical Moves in the Caucasus
Two Rivals and Two Masters of the Caucasus The fog of war is gradually lifting from the battlefields around Nagorno-Karabakh, and although the contours of new geopolitical fault…
January 20, 2021
- Business & Economics
US Trade Policy in the Biden Administration: The Challenge of China’s Rise
The Emergence of China as a Focus of US Trade Policy Despite a period of rapid growth between 1979 and 1990 under Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, China…
December 21, 2020
- Dialogues
Amb. Frank Lavin on Trade with China Under the Biden Administration
GJIA: You have recently referred to the US president-elect Joe Biden as generally pro-trade from a left-of-center perspective. Yet, trade–specifically undoing the current…
December 13, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Turkey-Greece Relations: Growing Tensions and Implications for Transatlantic Relations
The history of Turkey-Greece bilateral relations has been fraught with diplomatic tensions and conflict, interrupted by brief moments of peace and calm. In fact, the bilateral…
November 10, 2020
- Society & Culture
Uncertain Days for Scholars as Sino-U.S. Tensions Rise
In July, the Trump administration outlined plans to end the Fulbright program academic exchanges with China and Hong Kong. The move was one of several ways in which cultural…
September 28, 2020
- Global Governance
COVID-19 Management and Soft Power: Ideas for a Geopolitics of Science and Expertise
Countries such as Germany, South Korea, and New Zealand, where policies have been adopted rapidly by the political leadership in synergy with the scientific community, have seen…
July 14, 2020
- Science & Technology
The Reemergence of Vaccine Nationalism
As some governments began narrowing down the roster of projects receiving priority status in late spring, the first hints of “vaccine nationalism” appeared. The expression is…
July 3, 2020
- Global Governance
Japan and South Korea Can Lead Post-Pandemic East Asia
The pandemic crisis has intensified the US-China confrontation. Partly due to the Trump administration’s persistence in calling COVID-19 the “Wuhan virus” or “China,…
June 22, 2020
- Conflict & Security
South China Sea Threat Assessment: Is China a Threat or a Paper Tiger?
China’s weak joint command system, which has become an essential instrument in modern warfare, comprises its first major military weakness. If any military operations are to be…
February 20, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Catching Up: China’s Developing Military Power
By decoupling sensors from shooters and shooters from their command structures, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could negate the battle networks that have helped make the U.…
January 6, 2020