The Delusions of Counterinsurgency
By David Martin Jones and Michael L.R. Smith
The theory and practice of counterinsurgency, ‘COIN’, preoccupied Western military thinking after 9/11. In the Political Impossibility...
Developing Change Competence for the African Environment
By Franca Ovadje
Leading change in Africa is fraught with a number of difficulties. To be successful in this context a deep understanding of the...
Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West
By Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson discusses his latest book: Ukraine Crisis: What it means for the West. He contends that the book is actually about...
The Greening of Asia: Businesses’ Role in the World’s Biggest-Ever Environmental Clean-Up
By Mark L. Clifford
The challenge of improving Asia’s environment has been translated into business opportunities. These range from providing clean, always on, tap-water and...
China and Europe: Reconnecting Across a New Silk Road
by Xiangming Chen and Julia Mardeusz
Since 2013, economic and trade relations between China and Europe have grown significantly. In this article, the authors look...
China Looks West: What Is at Stake in Beijing’s “New Silk Road” Project
Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett and Wu Bingbing
Not even two years into what will almost certainly be a ten-year tenure as China’s president, Xi...
Transformation of Financial Services in Northeast Asian Banks: An Unexpected, but Pleasant, Cultural Surprise
By Jung Kee Hong and You-il Lee
Below Dr. Jung Kee Hong and Dr. You-il Lee explore the new emergence of financial market trends shown...
Cheap and Clean: Attitudes to Energy in a USA Concerned with Climate Change
By Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky
In light of the recent agreement between the US and China to cut greenhouse gas emissions, US climate policy...
Putin’s Russia: An Exemplary Case of Hyper-Extractive State
By Alexander Etkind
Due to Russia’s geographic scale and military might, it amplifies typical problems of many petrostates from Venezuela to Nigeria to Iran....
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
