ASEAN’s Sempiternal Challenge: Maintaining Centrality in the Indo-Pacific
While the idea of the Indo-Pacific has gained traction for thinking about Asia, ASEAN’s commitment to regional multilateralism ensures its relevance as a prime regional convener.
Heartland vs. Sea Power: Why the Rimland Will Shape the Future of World Order
The space where land power meets sea power will shape 21st-century geopolitics, blending strategic chokepoints, economic dynamism, and global influence.
Opinion – The 2025 Philippine General Election and US Strategy in Asia
Those elected in 2025 may give us early signs of whether the path ahead will be one of continued alignment with the US, or one that moves the Philippines towards China.
Opinion – Toward a Japan-South Korea Alliance Less Reliant on the US
A motivation behind Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru’s push for an ‘Asian NATO’ may be developing a security relationship with South Korea.
Seeing Through the Fog of Justice in Israel and Palestine
The International Criminal Court, if fully suported, offers a modicum of justice and accountability for Israeli and Palestinian victims who have suffered for far too long.
Opinion – Canada’s Armed Forces: On the Brink?
Without a long-term political resurgence and a concerted national effort to rebuild its military, Canada risks a permanent decline in defence capabilities.
Opinion – Reinhold Niebuhr and the Future of US Support for Ukraine
Niebuhr would likely want America to continue arming Ukraine because he would see it not as another Vietnam, but as Manchuria again.
America First Revisited: Trump’s Agenda and Its Global Implications
The return of Trump underscores a trend of rising populism and a demand for strong, direct leadership that may find resonance in democracies across Europe, Asia and elsewhere.
Three Representations for Understanding Planetary Politics
The contemporary discourse surrounding the planetary challenges traditional views shaped by human-centered exploitation and highlights the need for a more inclusive understanding of our relationship with the Earth.
Opinion – Habitus and the 2024 US Presidential Elections
Donald Trump’s victory comes from the rejectionists of the overarching framework of modernization theory at its most urban chic, missionizing, and high modernist points of expression.
