Assumption Testing: Multipolarity is more dangerous than bipolarity for the United States
…in Japan’s New National Security Strategy,” Stimson Center, February 17, 2023, updated March 1, 2023, https://www.stimson.org/2023/heightened-sense-of-crisis-china-and-taiwan-in-japans-new-national-security-strategy/; Jennifer Kavanagh, ”Japan’s New Defense Budget Is Still Not Enough,”, Renewing American Statecraft, Carnegie…
Militarized Commons: How Territorial Competition is Weaponizing Fisheries and Destroying the South China Sea
…Studies, (2019). https://ocean.csis.org/spotlights/illuminating-the-south-china-seas-dark-fishing-fleets/. 10 Pauly, D., “The fisheries of the South China Sea.” 11 Benjamin J. Sacks, “The Political Geography of the South China Sea Disputes,” RAND Corporation, (2022). https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PEA2000/PEA2021-1/RAND_PEA2021-1.pdf. 12 Government…
Environmental Security August News Update
…to the directive have been mixed. While some conservation groups have welcomed these new measures, others have argued that the new directive merely increases the enforcement of already-existing laws. It…
Review Essay: Stabilizing Nuclear Southern Asia
…Crisis Management in South Asia. In the wake of the 2019 India–Pakistan Pulwama militarized crisis, each book focuses on a distinct element of the Southern Asian security milieu that is…
ASEAN and its Dilemma of a Rising China
…of law, focusing in particular on the UN’s role in reestablishing rule of law institutions in post-conflict environments. Before joining Stimson, Michelle worked with the International Crisis Group and the…
Sameer Lalwani Appointed Director, Elizabeth Threlkeld Deputy Director of Growing South Asia Program
…trends, promoting confidence-building and nuclear risk-reduction measures, fostering a new generation of strategic analysts, and promoting constructive U.S. foreign policy initiatives in the region. “The South Asia program occupies a…
Assessing the Impact of China’s MIRVs on South Asia
…Lewis is part of the new book The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age published by the Stimson Center earlier this year. The…
The 1 Percent for Climate
…28th year, one question looms — will COP28 finally deliver meaningful progress toward the climate crisis? Eight years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, which binds nations to take…