Indo-Pacific

Civil-Military Balance Beyond Kayani

By Shuja Nawaz

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif finally made known his choice for the new army chief, arguably the most powerful job in the Pakistani military, one day before General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani retired after completing his second three-year term. Suddenly the talking heads and on-line experts shifted from speculating on who the next chief would be to […]

Former Associate Director Among 21 Killed in Kabul Terrorist Attack

The Atlantic Council mourns the death of Alexandros Petersen, a victim of Friday’s terrorist attack in Kabul that killed twenty-one people. Petersen was a former fellow for transatlantic energy security and associate director of the Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, and had been serving in Kabul as a professor at the American University of Afghanistan. […]

The Trouble with China

By Nicholas Burns

It’s the Responsibility of the US to Prevent War Over East China Sea Islands As the White House struggles to cope with a burning Middle East, another vital challenge is arising on the far horizon — China is flexing its muscles with real consequences for America’s future in Asia. In the East China Sea, the […]

Workshop on Cybersecurity, Space, and the Future of Deterrence in Northeast Asia

As a result of technological progress, the domains of cyber and space have begun to rise in importance, especially in Northeast Asia where the United States has engaged in extended deterrence since the Cold War with the aim of promoting stability in a strategically complex region.

Overblown Rhetoric Exaggerates Proliferation Risks of Japan-Turkey Nuclear Cooperation

By Jessica Varnum

The international community faces many grave nuclear proliferation challenges. Possible nuclear energy cooperation between Japan and Turkey is not one of them, although a January 8th editorial in Japan’s second most widely read newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, suggested otherwise. It  called for an “urgent rethink” of the bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement currently under consideration by […]