What East can teach West, and vice versa, as ‘voyeur’ states take notes
Who, as between Reagan and Gorbachev, won the...
Tags: civilization, Cold War, East Asia, Eastern civilization, Global Brief, Irvin Studin, Kishore Mahbubani, Lee Kuan Yew, pivot to Asia, rise of China, thick democracy, transitional world, West Asia, Western civilization
On three key fronts – relations with Pakistan, China and the US – the neoliberal school is in the ascendant
India has...
Tags: China, Cold War, hard-power, India, India-China relations, India-US relations, Indian economy, Indian foreign policy, Indian grand strategy, Kanti Bajpai, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Nehruvian formula, Neoliberalism, Pakistan, soft power
New doctrines and crushing budgetary pressures may well make a non-nuclear world seem irresistible. But regional rivalries...
Tags: America's nucelar delivery system, America's nuclear arsenal, arms race, China, Cold War, conventional weapons, denuclearization, France, George Shultz, Global Brief, Henry Kissinger, Iran's nuclear program, Israel's nuclear program, Israel's nuclear weapons, mutually assured destruction, NATO, nuclear arms race, nuclear free zone, Nuclear Posture Review, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, Peter Jones, President Obama, Russia's nuclear arsenal, WMDFZ
New Questions, Paradigms and Worlds for an Ancient Craft
Intelligence in this century will continue to be a key feature...
Tags: biotechnology, CIA, Cold War, Global Brief, Google Earth, intelligence, intelligence analysis, John E. McLaughlin, MASINT, nanotechnology, photographic intelligence (IMINT), security threats, signals intelligence (SIGINT), spies, spying
The strategists Down Under see errors in America’s moves in Asia. They will not commit to anything in the event of war...
It is understandable and predictable that Asia’s two giants – India and China – should be gearing up for a showdown...
Tags: Asia-Pacific region, Balaji Chandramohan, bilateral treaties, China, Chinese ambitions, Cold War, Ghandi, Gilgit, global affairs, Global Brief, India, India's foreign policy, India-China rivalry, Indo-African forum, Karakoram Highway, Look East policy, Mearsheimer, Obama administration, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, realpolitik, Southeast Asia, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, United Liberation Front of Asom