Geopolitics

Reason guides realism, but passion is indispensable in the execution of policy.

Russia and China will hold naval exercises in the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean in 2015.

Cartography helps set the parameters within which debates over policy and strategy unfold.

How Iran is at the center of the new Middle East, and why the United States doesn’t mind

Unlikely in the near future, but the U.S. should not make the strategic mistakes necessary to make it happen

America has the Caribbean, China has the South China Sea, and Russia has the Black Sea.

Putin has an ace up his sleeve: shutting down the Northern Distribution Network.

Here are four lessons Asia watchers should learn from the events unfolding in the Ukraine.

India-Japan ties will be “conducive” to regional peace and stability — by forming a bulwark against Chinese ambitions.

Pakistan's foreign ministry announced that Pakistan would double-down on the construction of its pipeline with Iran.

Sanctions, centrifuges and personalities aren’t the only forces pushing Iran and the U.S. toward a détente.

The United States can’t seem to get its Central Asian cards in order.

For centuries Germany was plagued by difficult geography that Berlin only escaped with the end of the Cold War.

“Australia is an island, a continent and a nation” lying at intersect of North America and the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

It’s been 20 years since Huntington’s Foreign Affairs article was published. Why his thesis hasn’t come to pass.

“That oceangoing behemoths can reach inland metropolises is a reminder of how geography has blessed North America.”

Can Pakistan live with its status as being merely a bargaining chip in the Sino-Indian relationship?

With the right cartography, the pivot isn’t the U.S. abandoning Europe for Asia but hugging Eurasia.

Talk of Japanese decline sheds little light on the strengths and weaknesses of the country– or how its problems can be solved.

“Moscow is pivoting to Asia out of its primary national interest: survival.”

Some analysts have written off Russia’s claim to being an Asia-Pacific power. They do so at their peril.

ASEAN members remain ambivalent about Tokyo’s political influence. With a stagnant economy and China’s shadow looming large, what can Japan do to regain the initiative?

Richard Bush maps out Tokyo and Beijing’s security dilemma. Paul Giarra gives us his take.