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Defense & SecurityAfghanistan, China, India, Pakistan

Disaster in South Asia: Nuclear Deployments & Violent Extremism

GSR Staff

Nuclear proliferation is dangerous for long-term Indian national security any way you look at it. At-sea deployments of nuclear weapons by India, Pakistan, and perhaps China, would increasingly nuclearize the Indian…

Defense & SecurityBrazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey

Acheiving Sustainable Economic Growth in the E7

Joshua Ball

The gap between the developed world and the developing world is closing—fast. India's GDP trajectory over the next 34 years is distinctly separate from its GDP per capita progression, demonstrating…

Economics & TradeChina, United States

China Faces a Daunting Task in Managing Its Growth and Security

Joshua Ball

Forecast: China's political stability will hang in the balance. Xi will emerge from the party’s congress with the political capital required to see a lot of his ambitious visions through. However,…

Deterrence & Foreign PolicyChina, India, Pakistan, United States

Balancing China: The Foundations of an Indo-U.S. Strategic Partnership

Joshua Ball

The United States' alliances give it a competitive edge against China. China does not engage in alliance structures targeted against third countries. This was to allow for China to retain…

Government & PoliticsChina

Xi Jinping Lays Out Plans to Make China Great Again

Jinghan Zeng

Chinese elites have long been searching for answers to the same question: how to make China great again? In 1793, in his letter to Britain’s King George III, China’s Qianlong…

Defense & SecurityChina, Energy, European Union, Foreign Policy, France, International Security, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Northern Africa, Oil, OPEC, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, United States

Converging Economic and Demographic Trends Threaten Security in the Middle East and North Africa

Joshua Ball

With oil prices unlikely to recover to levels of the petroleum boom governments may have to limit cash payments and subsidies. In the meantime, social networks have provided new tools…

Defense & SecurityBangladesh, China, India, Pakistan, United States

South Asia: India and Pakistan

Joshua Ball

Nuclear deployment requirements for naval-based delivery vehicles remove a safety valve that, until now, has kept atomic weapons stored separately from missiles in South Asia. At-sea deployments of nuclear weapons…

Defense & SecurityBhutan, China, India

India-China Dispute on the Doklam Plateau

Joshua Ball

The border dispute between China, India, and Bhutan on the Doklam Plateau carries on to be unresolved and seems to be escalating. India has ignored China's August 19 deadline for…

Defense & SecurityBrazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa, United States

The Assertions of Rising and Declining World Powers

Joshua Ball

Expect increasing assertiveness from Beijing and Moscow as both governments seek to lock in competitive advantages. Beijing and Moscow will seek to lock in competitive advantages and also to right…

Defense & SecurityAmericas, Brazil, China, Colombia, Hezbollah, International Security, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, Venezuela

How Likely is a Civil War in Venezuela?

Joshua Ball

The worst-case scenario for Venezuela: Prolonged economic crisis and food shortages, coupled with rapidly escalating violence and unchecked arms proliferation could lead to a civil war If there isn’t any…

Defense & SecurityChina, United States

U.S. Intelligence: Expect More Overseas Chinese Military Bases

Joshua Ball

China has world’s fastest-modernizing military after the United States. China's first overseas army base in a small Africans nation of Djibouti is most likely the first of many that China…

Defense & SecurityBelarus, China, North Korea, Russia, South Korea, Ukraine, United States, Zapad-2017

North Korea Crisis Reveals Fractures in the China-Russia Strategic Partnership

Joshua Ball

In recent months, the Chinese government has been repeatedly criticized by North Korean state media. Particularly surprising to Beijing was a reference to China as the “Chinese mainland,” in differentiating it from…