Washington should not forget its Asian allies
Brad Glosserman The United States has scaled back plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. While that decision reflects a new assessment of the Iranian threat to...
Mao’s China at 60
Chris Patten Every country is shaped by its history, but countries fabricate and rewrite their histories, too. The story of how we became who we are needs to accommodate our...
Think Again: Asia’s Rise
Minxin Pei Don't believe the hype about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. It will be many decades before China, India, and the...
How China Wins and Loses Xinjiang
Christina Larson The Chinese government can put down a riot -- but its heavy-handed tactics ensure that ethnic tensions will keep simmering. On Sunday, more than 1,000 Uighurs clashed with...
The Bourgeois Revolution
Joshua Kurlantzick ost days, the scene around Democracy Monument, a set of giant statues in the center of the old part of Bangkok, seems almost like a carnival. Pushcart...
Washington Has Limited Options In Trying To Halt Possible “Meltdown” In Pakistan — Experts
Joshua Kucera his decade, Pakistan has been one of the largest recipients of US military aid in the world, receiving almost $12 billion. Yet the security situation there continues to...
China’s Deep Pockets Make Beijing A Potent Energy Player In Central Asia
Joanna Lillis ot so long ago Kazakhstan was entertaining aspirations of becoming one of the world’s 50 largest economies. Now, Astana finds itself in a position where it must...
Kim Calls the Shots
Donald G. Gross is North Korea dictating U.S. security policy in Northeast Asia? As Pyongyang ratchets up tensions in the region on a near-daily basis, now preparing for a rocket...
China’s Team of Rivals
Cheng Li the two dozen senior politicians who walk the halls of Zhongnanhai, the compound of the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership in Beijing, are worried. What was inconceivable a year...
Is China the New America?
Harold James The pressure to engage in large-scale fiscal stimulation is also likely to alter the balance of China's economic development. The Chinese model of capitalism is very different...
Welcoming Message from the Editor
Antony Ou It is my pleasure to welcome you to the commencement of the China Focus of the Centre for Strategic Research and Analysis (CESRAN). I would like to...
Constraints on Aid Conditionality: The case of the European Commission and the Palestinian Authority
The international community has come in for a great deal of criticism in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and especially within the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since the 1967...
Syria’s Propaganda War
Both sides in the Syrian conflict — and all the Middle Eastern powers — are manipulating events and rumours for their own purposes. Media access to hard facts is limited...
Syria Divides the Arab Left
The violence deepens and spreads. Yet unlike Egypt and Tunisia, the Syrian revolt has not had unanimous support from the Arab left. There is a split between those who sympathise...
Israel’s Fear of Democracy in the Middle East
This month Egypt, known as the “mother of the Arab world” will, for the first time, hold a free and transparent Presidential election. This election will have a great impact...