Escalation Control and the Nuclear Option in South Asia
…new ventures are not foreclosed. Until a process of reconciliation is underway, the next crisis always waits in the wings. Despite – or perhaps because of – the inconclusive resolution…
What’s in a Tripwire: The Post-Cold War Transformation of the US Military Presence in Korea
…Carl Ford, interview by the author, June 4, 2021. 11 Note: Kwak, “The United States-ROK Alliance, 1953 — 2004,” 90. 12 Note: Yoichi Funabashi, Alliance Adrift (New York:…
Looking South: Adapting US policy toward the Global South in a time of change
…crisis by engaging at-risk counties preemptively, in the face of early warning signs of a looming food security crisis well before February 2022. As the French Agency for Development notes,…
Chinese missile crisis? Escalation over disputed China Sea islands
Reports have emerged that China has set up a missile launch base on Woody Island, part of an archipelago disputed with Taiwan and Vietnam. This comes just as the US…
Sameer Lalwani and Hannah Haegeland Op-Ed on the Risk of a Nuclear-Tinged South Asian Crisis
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Crisis Prevention, Confidence Building, and Reconciliation in South Asia
…regional cooperation. The authors are drawn from India, Pakistan, China and the United States, with most chapters being collaborative efforts across borders. Available from St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1-800-288-2131….
Renewable Energy and Peace in the Central African Republic
…case study reports. By Andrew Hyde, Senior Fellow and Director, Powering Peace Executive Summary The Central African Republic (CAR) is mired in a complex and multi-layered crisis that affects the…
Avoiding Incidents at Sea between India and China
…salience of the Indo-Pacific. See USNI News, “Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES),” https://news.usni.org/2014/06/17/document-conduct-unplanned-encounters-sea. [xi] Gulshan Luthra, “Indian Navy Looking at More P-8I Submarine Killers,” Indian Strategic, January 2018,…