Asia/Pacific

Chinese Involvement In Somalia: Policy Change or Status Quo?

Luke Butcher • Jun 15 2011 • Essays

During the 2000’s, the role of China in international organizations has undergone a significant shift. Chinese involvement in Somalia is a sign that that the non-interventionist approaches adopted by China since the end of the Cold War is now clashing with its increased interests in other areas of the world, particularly in Africa.

An Optimistic Memo on the Chinese Noopolitik: 2001-2011

Idriss J. Aberkane • Jun 13 2011 • Essays

Oscillating between isolationist, export substitution, and an all-out embrace of globalization’s manifold levers, being both Dragon and Phoenix, in spite of having suffered subordination to politically assertive empires from 1850 to 1950 and having notoriously “missed” the Industrial Revolution, China is resuming its otherwise ancient status of world innovator and economic superpower.

An Undemocratic Hong Kong?

Charlotte Brandon • May 25 2011 • Essays

Interestingly, Hong Kong already has institutions that underlie democracy but it is still yet to be legitimate. This poses the key question; if Hong Kong has institutions that do to some extent, simulate a democracy, what has prevented full transition for Hong Kong to become a legitimate democracy?

Unstable Peace in the Pacific

Joseph Artuso • May 22 2011 • Essays

In discussions of U.S. hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region, China looms large. The United States—along with many of China’s neighbors—have cautiously embraced China’s rise. However tensions in the region have been on the rise and the potential for strategic rivalry in the long run remains high.

Deception, Development or Interdependence? China’s Approach to African Trade

Harry Kazianis • May 17 2011 • Essays

China and the west view Africa with a different set of eyes. In supporting trade with any and all nations in Africa and around the globe, China by default supports nations that have horrendous human rights track records that do not support democratic institutions. But China’s model of economic aid can be used by African nations to pull millions of people out of poverty. It is nothing more, nothing less.

Yin or Yang? China and the Muslim world

Idriss J. Aberkane • Apr 29 2011 • Essays

In its autonomous region of Xinjiang China will decide upon its lasting and largely irreversible geopolitical trademark in entering the Global Balkans. Though it is narrow, the window of opportunity exists for China to take a credible leadership for regional peace and secure stable confidence.

US Navy and Chinese Navy: Partners or Rivals?

Wang Yinghui • Apr 14 2011 • Essays

Because of the deep mutual mistrust from both sides, especially the US concern over China’s military build-up, friction and cooperation will coexist in the development of the China-US naval relationship. Only when political mutual trust reaches a high level, can the military relationship stride forward beyond the stop and go cycle of the last 30 years.

Chairman Mao’s Masterplan

Marina Popcov • Apr 8 2011 • Essays

Within the antagonism between capitalist and communist ideas in the period of the cold war the Sino-US rapprochement appears as a very out of character phenomenon, culminating in the spectacular visit of president Richard Nixon in 1972, as the first president to enter Chinese Communist soil.

US Missile Defence and Space Security: a Security Dilemma for China?

Charles R. Lister • Mar 18 2011 • Essays

The Chinese reaction to U.S. BMD and space security policy has emphasized the crucial importance of dialogue and economic engagement. Conscious of history’s rising powers being profoundly threatening and violent, China has been keen to stress its ‘peaceful rise’ as a ‘responsible great power.’

Cultural awareness and counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

Charles R. Lister • Mar 11 2011 • Essays

The current campaign in Afghanistan has lasted for over nine years and the Taliban has grown into a formidable insurgency. This paper explains why a lack of cultural awareness condemns counterinsurgency operations to almost certain defeat, and explores the implications for the campaign in Afghanistan.

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