An Indian Ocean-focused initiative is welcome. But it will need to support a democratic information-sharing culture, if it is to attract participation from all regional countries.

South Korea’s demographic crisis is exposing a deeper problem: how class, gender, education, housing, and family background shape who is considered marriageable.

The Tibetan movement has long been dependent on the personal moral authority of the Dalai Lama. In a post-Dalai Lama world, the Central Tibetan Administration will need to step up.

Rare earth projects require a solid commitment across political cycles, a challenge that the United States has not yet been able to overcome.

U.S. relations, India is emerging as the strategic cog in the U.S. wheel, Pakistan as a tactical partner, NATO as the anchor of the Atlantic alliance, and the Quad as a tool to serve the Indo‑Pacific.

Unlike Chinese investments in the past, which were state-backed and focused on infrastructure, the B2B model is more commercial and a business-driven partnership.

Heightened Iranian restrictions on shipping and Tehran’s blockade of the waterway have renewed global concern over strategic maritime chokepoints, shifting analytical and policy attention toward other ...

The Tatmadaw’s advances will have implications not only for Myanmar’s internal conflict, but for neighboring India and Bangladesh.

Anti-base signs on the fence separating the U.S. Marine Corps’ Camp Schwab and Henoko, Nago in Okinawa, Japan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Vitalie Ciubotaru In Japan, there are 76 exclusive-use U.S.

Although such explanations may function as partial explanations, two key factors are particularly important for understanding Kazakhstan’s broader strategic rationale: the changing character of modern ...

U.S. President Ronald Reagan reviewing troops with Prime Minister Nakasone at an arrival Ceremony at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan, May 4, 1980. Credit: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library [U]nhappily ...

Indonesia’s conservative Aceh Province has once again carried out a mass public caning. On May 12, the Southeast Aceh Prosecutor’s Office punished some 15 convicts by flogging the group with over 200 ...