International Relations

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Sourabh Gupta, Institute for China-America Studies Seventy-five years ago this July, the US diplomat George Kennan published his seminal essay in Foreign Affairs introducing the idea of ‘containment’. In The Sources of…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Maria Monica Wihardja, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute The challenges of the 21st century are global and existential — climate change, pandemics, food insecurity and nuclear war. Global challenges require a…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Jeremy Paltiel, Carleton University After a tumultuous period, Sino–Canadian relations have settled into a ‘new normal’. In September 2021, Washington dropped the extradition request for Huawei Chief Financial Officer…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU Name the region: a group of internally diverse states, lying across strategically significant maritime passages, whose cultures and political systems have been profoundly shaped by colonialism…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: Anna Powles, Massey University and Joanne Wallis, University of Adelaide In the recently agreed 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent, and before that the 2018 Boe Declaration on…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Kaush Arha, Purdue University The US–Japan Economic Policy Consultative Meeting convened in July 2022 in Washington DC. US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida launched the…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Doug Strub, National Bureau of Asia Research The Biden administration’s launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) negotiations signals renewed US economic engagement in the region. The new framework…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: Zhijie Ding, Columbia University and Wanjun Zhao, UC Berkeley In September 2021, China applied for membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). This application came…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: Swaran Singh and Yves Tiberghien, UBC There is plenty of blame to go around for the apparent fourth Taiwan Straits crisis of August 2022. Intensely partisan US politics have…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Ann Marie Murphy, Seton Hall University To many Americans who view Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an unprovoked war that must be opposed, Indonesia’s high levels of public support…