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Using Geoeconomics To Contain China
Abstract: Geoeconomics is at the heart of containment strategy as China mounted its belligerence and violated the global rule-based order. This led to an emerging consensus at the global level powered by the US to tackle the imminent threats posed by China within the established framework of international order. The US’s underlying intent is to… Read More
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The Abraham Accords And The I2U2
Abstract: The Abraham Accords and the recently formed I2U2 have heralded the beginning of new geopolitical realignments in the Middle East or West Asia region. Many have seen the I2U2 as a ‘Middle Eastern QUAD’ brought together by the concerns of a possible nuclear-armed Iran as well as the increasing presence of China However, given… Read More
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The Advertiser And The Invisible In Biden’s Middle East Agenda
Abstract: Various political forces that contribute to the instability in the Middle Eastern region at all levels exist, whether Israeli or Arab. The region prepared for U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit[1] from July 13 to 16, 2022. Certainly, questions have arisen regarding Biden’s busy agenda upon his arrival and his ability to achieve his most… Read More
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The Battle For Global Chip Dominance: The US “CHIPS And Science Act”
Abstract: With the current shortage of semiconductors worldwide and China being the largest exporter of rare earth, the US recently passed its CHIPS and Science Act. The agreement seeks to ensure that the US regains dominance and self-reliance in the semiconductor industry while addressing its current economic and national security concerns. Granted that semiconductors are… Read More
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I2U2: A Strategic Bloc Or A Minilateral Partnership?
Abstract: Ideated last year, the quadrilateral grouping in the Middle East involving the US, Israel, India, and UAE was largely publicised as the ‘Middle Eastern Quad’ to counter-weight China in the western Indian Ocean. The group has now been named I2U2. While the China angle seems to exist covertly, the quadrilateral aims to achieve higher… Read More
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EU Strategic Compass: A Stress Test
Abstract: Matters of EU security and defense and, therefore, strategy cannot be isolated from concepts such as sovereignty or national strategic culture. The key question is: How to structure/operationalize EU strategic autonomy? The answer is still at the political level. In the meantime, certain aspects of EU defense, one major one being defense of the… Read More
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The Case For “Fort Trump”
Abstract: Andrej Duda’s offer to host in Poland US Troops that would have been withdrawn from Germany was widely seen as an attempt to curry favour from the then-contemporary Trump administration. However, when we view this offer dispassionately, we can see a strategic argument that basing US and other NATO forces in Poland makes strategic… Read More
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How the Global Dynamic Between the US and China Affects Regional Patterns in the Middle East
Abstract: With global competition between the United States (US) and China taking new forms, the Middle East will not be spared. The latter’s regional patterns of amity and enmity are affected by global great power politics, not only as far as bilateral interactions (or limitations to them) are concerned but up to alignments, external involvements… Read More
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The Indo-US Maritime Cooperation
Abstract: The demise of the Soviet Union along with the end of the Cold War heralded a new era for Indo-US ties seeing as it was followed by a significant realignment in the global order. While the United States (US) enjoyed a brief moment of unipolarity, India emerged from its cocoon of protectionism and moved… Read More
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An American Perspective on Eurasian Affairs
Abstract: American foreign policy has gone through three distinct stages: isolationism, containment, and global hegemony. But instead of transitioning into a policy of globalization, American foreign policy has reverted to a policy of containment vis-à-vis Russia and China, thus dividing the world between a Western bloc and an Eastern bloc yet again. It is unclear… Read More
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