The US has failed to materialize its aspired goals in the Central Asia region largely due to a common set of policies, characterized by the exhibition of ‘disinterest’.
Role theory explains tensions within the Philippines’ policy towards China in the South China Sea by examining contesting role conceptions in the Duterte administration.
Afghanistan’s foreign policy toward India has always been the antithesis of its foreign policy toward Pakistan across three governments since 1996.
The popular ‘rose tinted’ depiction of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami justifies the Global North’s neocolonial foreign aid strategies.
Both Asia’s internal political problems and America’s structural advantages prevent the “Asian Century” from becoming a political reality.
The nature of India-Bangladesh relations can be better understood by analyzing water insecurity, a critical feature of each country’s geopolitics.
As long as the DPRK fears for its survival, it is doubtful that any state can coerce the DPRK to abandon its nuclear weapons.
Japan and India are hesitant to accept the Belt and Road Initiative because they see it as a means of expanding Chinese power unilaterally.
The inclusion of TRIPS-Plus provisions in recent trade agreements limits the ability of developing countries to obtain medicines needed to face the HIV epidemic.
Bilateral relations between India and Myanmar in the post-Cold War era are governed and defined by geostrategic interests more so than by identity and ideology.
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