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Dec. 11, 2023
Creating Balance: The Evolution of Thailand’s Defense Diplomacy and Defense Relations

Defense diplomacy is the use of defense resources by military/defense officials to promote trust and cooperation with other countries. This study focuses on the defense diplomacy and foreign relations of the Thai defense establishment, a matter of significance in Thailand, a middle power—more
Dec. 11, 2023
Thailand’s Indo-Pacific Adrift?: A Reluctant Realignment with the United States and China

China’s assertive rise triggers existential and discursive anxieties in the Indo-Pacific since 2017. The US rebalances, using strategies like institutional balancing (minilateralism) and discursive balancing (free and open Indo-Pacific). Thailand, a long-time US ally, hesitates to
Aug. 1, 2022
Assessing China’s Motives: How the Belt and Road Initiative Threatens US Interests

China’s Belt and Road Initiative continues to be a source of debate across the international community. Some foreign policy experts contend it is a means for China to establish an alternative to the existing liberal international order. While it is certain to provide some positive outcomes to
April 21, 2022
Book Review: We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin

Book Review: We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin, by Chris Miller. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 384 pp. ISBN: 978-0674916449.
March 15, 2022
Book Review: Rethinking American Grand Strategy

Book Review: Rethinking American Grand Strategy, ed. Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols, and Andrew Preston. New York: Oxford University Press 2021, ISBN 9780190695699, 502 pp.
March 15, 2022
Book Review: Rethinking American Grand Strategy

Book Review: Rethinking American Grand Strategy, ed. Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols, and Andrew Preston. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021; xv + 483 pp. ISBN-13: 9780190695668.
March 14, 2022
Understanding China’s Historical Impetus

Since 1949 China has focused on a national renewal and overcoming a “Century of Humiliation” that saw it fall from the pinnacle of its power and become subjugated by Western and Japanese imperialists. This recent history and cultural memory from thousands of years of successive dynasties
March 2, 2022
Book Review: The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

Book Review: The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, by Marie Favereau. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021, 384 pp.
Nov. 1, 2021
Evacuation Operations, Great-Power Competition, and External Operations Terror Threats in Post-Drawdown Afghanistan: Mapping Out the Path Ahead

Our leaders cannot afford to look backward. Instead, we must understand the new operating environment and frame the threat landscape, which should incorporate three primary lines of effort (LOE): post-drawdown humanitarian aid and evacuations, confronting the GPC in theater, and countering nonstate
Aug. 26, 2021
Emerging Myths About the Afghanistan War

Perhaps the toughest part of the post–Afghanistan War era will be an honest accounting of its implications. Two narratives are fast-emerging about the American pullout and the collapse of the Islamic Republic—yet after a cursory examination these narratives are closer to myth than
Aug. 19, 2021
Afghan Crisis: A Harbinger of Instability in South Asia

After two decades, the Taliban returned to power through brute force. Chaos and fear engulfed the city of Kabul and surrounding areas, with tens of thousands of people stuck and trying to escape harm’s way. The collapse of Afghanistan left the Afghan people in distress and servitude under the
Aug. 17, 2021
The Fall of Afghanistan

The current state of Afghanistan is an illusion of Western diplomacy, a conflagration of religious and ethnic groups unwillingly forced together in formation of a “nation” as the United Nations and the predominant powers within prefer to establish a world on a rules-based order. As a

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Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs Articles

Creating Balance: The Evolution of Thailand’s Defense Diplomacy and Defense Relations

Thailand’s Indo-Pacific Adrift?: A Reluctant Realignment with the United States and China

Assessing China’s Motives: How the Belt and Road Initiative Threatens US Interests

Book Review: We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin

Book Review: Rethinking American Grand Strategy

Book Review: Rethinking American Grand Strategy

Understanding China’s Historical Impetus

Book Review: The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

Evacuation Operations, Great-Power Competition, and External Operations Terror Threats in Post-Drawdown Afghanistan: Mapping Out the Path Ahead

Emerging Myths About the Afghanistan War

Afghan Crisis: A Harbinger of Instability in South Asia

The Fall of Afghanistan

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