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The Tiger Project: War and deterrence in the Indo-Pacific

Explore the Atlantic Council’s work on current and enduring defense and deterrence issues in the Indo-Pacific, featuring expert commentary, multimedia content, and in-depth analysis.

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The Global China Hub tracks Beijing’s actions and their global impacts, assessing China’s rise from multiple angles and identifying emerging China policy challenges. The Hub leverages its network of China experts around the world to generate actionable recommendations for policymakers in Washington and beyond.

The Indo-Pacific Security Initiative (IPSI) informs and shapes the strategies, plans, and policies of the United States and its allies and partners to address the most important rising security challenges in the Indo-Pacific, including China’s growing threat to the international order and North Korea’s destabilizing nuclear weapons advancements. IPSI produces innovative analysis, conducts tabletop exercises, hosts public and private convenings, and engages with US, allied, and partner governments, militaries, media, other key private and public-sector stakeholders, and publics.

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In the News

Feb 20, 2014

Gopalaswamy on Space Weaponization

By Bharath Gopalaswamy

South Asia Center Deputy Director Bharath Gopalaswamy writes in India Review on India’s space program and the weaponization of space technology:

India

In the News

Feb 18, 2014

Nawaz: Time for Tough Love for Bangladesh?

By Shuja Nawaz

South Asia Center Director Shuja Nawaz writes in Nikkei Asian Review on how Western governments can help stabilize Bangladesh:

South Asia

In the News

Feb 18, 2014

Pavel on Kim’s Human Rights Violations

By Barry Pavel

Atlantic Council VP and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel is quoted in the USA Today on the effort to bring North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un before the International Criminal Court for human rights violations:

China Korea

SouthAsiaSource

Feb 14, 2014

This Week in South Asia: February 8-14

Commentary from the South Asia Center on the most relevant news from the region, and suggested “must-read” analyses from the week. IndiaThe Aam Aadmi Party’s experiment with governance ends as Delhi’s Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, resigns from the post less than 2 months after he was sworn in. Keeping his word, Mr. Kejriwal carried out […]

Afghanistan India

Article

Feb 14, 2014

East Asia’s Dangerous History Wars

By Rajan Menon

At the annual Davos World Economic Forum, which convened last month, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe disrupted the conviviality by offering an historical analogy that jarred his listeners. Abe likened the polemics and gunboat diplomacy (he did not characterize it thus) that China and Japan have been using against each other of late to the rivalry between […]

China East Asia

New Atlanticist

Feb 13, 2014

Stakes too High for East Asia to Risk War

By Robert A. Manning

It is fashionable these days to compare current tensions in East Asia to Europe on the eve of WWI in 1914. Then, as now, there was deep economic and financial interdependence that led many to think that war was obsolete. Then, as now, there was a regional military buildup as Germany sought to become a […]

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, December 4, 2013

NATOSource

Feb 13, 2014

NATO Chief Expresses Concern over Italian Marines’ Case in India

By Justyna Pawlak, Reuters

NATO warned India on Wednesday that using anti-terrorism legislation to try two Italian marines accused of killing two fishermen would undermine international efforts to combat piracy.

India Italy
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the Munich Security Conference, February 1, 2014

NATOSource

Feb 12, 2014

NATO Chief Doesn’t See Karzai Signing Security Pact

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

President Hamid Karzai is unlikely to sign a pact for U.S. and NATO forces to stay in Afghanistan after 2014 and will probably leave the choice for his successor, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Saturday.

Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force

In the News

Feb 12, 2014

Nawaz on Afghan Taliban Talks

By Shuja Nawaz

South Asia Center Director Shuja Nawaz is quoted by The Daily Beast on Pakistan’s role in the Afghan reconciliation process:

Afghanistan Pakistan
French soldier in Afghanistan, Feb. 7, 2010

NATOSource

Feb 10, 2014

New Era in French-American Military Cooperation

By François Heisbourg, New York Times

France worries deeply — as do other European and Middle Eastern allies — about America’s foreign policy shift after Iraq and Afghanistan, its reluctance to put American forces in the front line in the world’s trouble spots.

Europe & Eurasia France

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