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Jan 7, 2025 | 
almendron.com | Oriana Skylar Mastro
“Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.” In 2016, just before moving into the White House for the first time, Donald Trump set the tone for an ambitious agenda to “modernise and rebuild” America’s nuclear arsenal. In his second term the stakes will be higher, and the pressing question is not if but by how much the Trump administration will update America’s nuclear deterrent. The smart move would be to aim for fewer warheads, not more.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Oriana Skylar Mastro
At a joint press conference in June 2024, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg fretted over the strengthening ties between China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia. They are hardly the only politicians to have done so.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
shorturl.at | James Lindsay |Oriana Skylar Mastro |David Sacks |Irina A. Faskianos
Myanmar IntroductionThroughout its decades of independence, Myanmar has struggled with military rule, civil war, poor governance, and widespread poverty. A military coup in February 2021 dashed hopes for… Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland January 31, 2022
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
exbulletin.com | Oriana Skylar Mastro
The world we live in is complex and ever-changing. This year, India, Iran, the UK and the US, to name a few, are facing crucial elections, and many diplomatic relationships in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and beyond are at a crossroads. Check out these headlines to better understand the state of geopolitics and the shift in power around the world. In the last two years, India has achieved two major milestones.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
blog.oup.com | Sarah Butcher |Oriana Skylar Mastro |Amrit Shergill
The Unfinished Quest In The Unfinished Quest, T.V. Paul charts India's checkered path toward higher regional and global status, and sheds important light on its significance as the "swing power" that can mitigate China's aggressive rise in the Indo-Pacific region.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Oriana Skylar Mastro
Over the past 15 years, China has expanded its once-minimal military presence in the South China Sea into a significant one. Beijing has laid claim to nearly all of the strategic waterway, a vital shipping lifeline for the global economy that is rich in energy and fishery resources. China has used nonmilitary assets such as its Coast Guard, fishing vessels and maritime militia to bully its neighbors, blockade their ships and build Chinese military bases on disputed islands.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Oriana Skylar Mastro |Emmanuel Acho
Mastro innovatively explains the processes behind China’s challenge and sets out strategic possibilities to counter it. A professor of political science with a specialty in Chinese military and security policy examines the nation’s ascent on the global stage. In the 1990s, China was a marginal player in world affairs, struggling to find a path to economic development.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Oriana Skylar Mastro |Robert D. Blackwill |Richard Fontaine
In This Review In This Review Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power During the past two decades, many American leaders have argued that U.S. foreign policy must focus more on Asia.
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May 7, 2024 | 
nbr.org | Oriana Skylar Mastro
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYMAIN ARGUMENTThe significant transformation of the PLA due to Chinese military modernization efforts over the past 25 years has led to a shift in the strategic environment of the Indo-Pacific region. With a 790% increase in defense spending from 1992 to 2020, the PLA has become one of the world’s most advanced militaries.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Oriana Skylar Mastro |Martin Indyk |Jonathan Chin
Quotes of the Day: "The path to freedom is not easy, but it is the only path worth walking." – Kim Koo "I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." – Olive Wendell Holmes, Sr. "America has been called a melting pot, but it seems better to call it a mosaic, for in it each nation, people, or race which has come to its shores has been privileged to keep its individuality, contributing at the same time its share to the unified pattern...
