The following is the second of a two-part series. Reinventing Extended Deterrence Many European politicians find conceptual luggage from the Cold War era both awkward and inappropriate in the evolving…
On January 2, 2019, President Xi Jinping claimed that China “makes no promise to renounce the use of force” against Taiwan. He made the statement during a speech commemorating…
The following is the first of a two-part series. Introduction Russia is anchored to Europe by so many vital ties that all other frontiers in its vast geography are of…
Much has been written about the political course pursued by the second president of post-Soviet Uzbekistan, Shavkat M. Mirziyoyev. Mirziyoyev, who succeeded I.A. Karimov in September 2016, has…
Since returning to office in 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pursued a course of action that has enabled him to significantly enhance Russia’s position on the global stage. Putin’s…
Unipolarity melts, China rises, Europe stands tall, and the U.S. falls short – the rules-based international order is under siege. Civility and soft power yield to blunt words and…
Conventional wisdom holds that alliances in a realpolitik world are temporary, bound to last only as long as the shared threats that drive states to form them. Not long after…
On February 7th, Dialogues sat down with Sergey Aleksashenko, former deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation and former first deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank, to discuss…
Russia has traditionally viewed itself as the direct successor to Byzantium—a great Eurasian empire linking the West and the East. Control of Eurasia’s continental heartland is one of the main…
On February 22, the Brookings Institution Center for East Asia Policy Studies welcomed Dr. Eric Heginbotham as part of a panel to discuss U.S. extended deterrence in Asia, and the…
