By Jay Maniyar Japan is a key security-oriented actor in the regional and global domains and has played a rather influential role across the entire seaboard of the Asian continent. As an avowed promoter of a free and open Indo-Pacific strategy (F&OIP), Japan is poised to encompass the maritime domain not just because it is a […]
By Jose Miguel Alonso-Trabanco As a great power that has risen from the ashes of the former Soviet Union, Russia has gone to great lengths to restore its geopolitical hegemony in the post-Soviet space in order to rollback Western influence, enhance its national security, overturn a correlation of forces regarded as detrimental, and rewrite European security […]
By Csaba Barnabas Horvath China has been seen by many as the most important ally of Russia in the invasion of Ukraine. However, after nearly two weeks of fighting, confusing episodes have been culminating around China’s attitude to the war. Regarding both the UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, China has abstained rather than voted […]
By Randall Puah Ukraine has come under a full-blown invasion by the Russian military since Putin’s 24 February 2022 shock announcement of a “special military operation” in the country’s south-eastern Donbass region. The conflict has already caused market jitters, commodity price hikes, and exacerbated supply chain disruptions. It has also prompted a well-planned and coordinated effort […]
By Dr. Scott N. Romaniuk The phenomenon of informal combatants – à la Spanish Civil War where approximately 1,500 Canadians and thousands more Britons went – appears to have a “romantic” tone in the minds of some nations and perhaps especially in Western countries (ostensibly the liberal democracies), and one should be overwhelmingly concerned for the […]
By Jose Miguel Alonso-Trabanco In the early post-Cold War era, it was widely believed that ‒as a result of the rise of globalisation‒ traditional geopolitical rivalries would be replaced with peaceful and harmonious economic competition. Such an assumption, anchored to the worldview of classical liberalism and its successive intellectual iterations, contented that the end of the […]
By Mark S. Cogan & Vivek Mishra Russo-Indian relations have been historically stable. A carryover from the Cold War era, a warm bilateral relationship has led to the development of a Strategic Partnership that has included defense deals, such as India buying Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets, Mil Mi-17 helicopters, and more recently the S-400 missile defense system from Moscow. The […]
By Chris Fitzgerald After a tense months-long build-up, Russia is currently in the middle of an illegal, full-scale invasion of sovereign Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s desire for military conquest, while ignoring the rule of law, has caught the international community off guard, with democracy and multilateralism seemingly facing their biggest threat in decades. The international community initially […]
By Csaba Barnabas Horvath The war in Afghanistan in 1979-1989 was a painful war of attrition for the Soviet Union, one where Moscow eventually had to give up due to victory remaining out-of-reach while losses became unacceptable. Can Ukraine become a similar war of attrition for Russia, a sort of defeat? At the beginning of the […]
By Jose Miguel Alonso-Trabanco Bilateral relations between Russia and Ukraine have been confrontational since 2014, when the civil unrest triggered by the Euromaidan movement managed to overthrow pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. This turning point fueled a reorientation of Ukraine’s strategic alignment. Ever since, Kiev has sought to deepen ties with the West through the […]
