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Several factors continue to hamper the formulation of a more ambitious policy, but change might be coming.

Although the relationship between Afghanistan and Central Asia started with confrontation and confusion, it has evolved into a cooperation based on shared norms.

Access to critical materials has become a paramount national security concern and the object of increasing competition between China and the United States.

Women play crucial roles in Myanmar's anti-coup resistance, as fighters, fundraisers, and activists.

Washington has indeed stepped up engagement, but missteps, half-steps, and mixed messaging are getting in the way.

Hindutva may have proclaimed the supremacy of all things traditional, but it makes no room for diversity, dynamism, dilemmas, and doubt. Such has never been the only Indian way.

One decade of the BRI: Where it started, how it has changed, and where it may be going.

Two years into Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the country’s women are not passive victims. They have limited means, but their voices are strong.

“Territorial empire has mattered for the United States, even if most people on the U.S. mainland are only vaguely aware of its colonial history.”

Hong Kong has recently witnessed the emergence of colonial nostalgia. How do these fond remembrances intersect with historical fact?

The South China Sea islands were of little interest to both European imperialists and local empires – until they became viewed as a tool in geostrategic and nationalistic posturing.

India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh all inherited over-centralized state monoliths with unitary ideologies of sovereignty from the British Raj.