Despite rising tensions, the United States and China must find a way to foster cooperation and mutually beneficial collaboration. This will take increased transparency, new bilateral agreements, and active efforts to combat technological protectionism.
The World Intellectual Property Organization has maintained amicable relations with North Korea for decades and is now one of the most favorably viewed international organizations in the isolated socialist country. Their history of engagement may bear insights on a novel approach to building a channel for communication and effective relationship-building between North Korea and the broader global community.
Sayed Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari is Pakistan’s Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development. Appointed in September 2018, he has maintained close ties with Prime Minister Imran Khan and has been an active cabinet member since first joining the PTI party. A British-Pakistani, he has supported a number of social and charitable causes in Pakistan and in the UK. On 17 Sept 2019, the Journal had a chance to sit down with him and talk about his role as SAPM as well as a number of policy issues in Pakistan.
In recent years, China and Russia have been jointly engaging in military adventures in the Pacific. Their military adventurism is aimed particularly at Japan and South Korea, two major U.S. allies in the region. Japan and South Korea, in response, have been preparing their respective militaries in order to thwart such military adventurism.
India is considered to be one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, and is facing impacts on the environment and its people from projects across sectors. This article addresses the role of the country’s financial sector in mitigating these impacts through environmental and social risk management practices in project financing.
Muhsin Puthan Purayil analyzes Trump’s summit invitation to Kim Jong-un via Twitter through the lens of public diplomacy. Given the nature of U.S.-North Korea relations coupled with the absence of an environment typically required for effective advocacy, however, he argues that Trump's engagement is unlikely to produce any tangible outcome.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has employed different policies meant to retain influence in its near abroad, an important one being the instigation and sustainment of frozen conflicts. In Moldova and Ukraine, recent political developments increase the likelihood that Russia will soon push to implement the next stage in the frozen conflict cycle: resolution through federalization.
As the 2019 Indian general elections inch closer, Claire Teitelman takes a closer look at the role that social media and technology play in spreading information.
Brexit has far-reaching implications, affecting not only Britain's economic, social, and diplomatic relations, but its security and defense capacity as well. Yicheng Zhang argues that despite the UK's recent steps toward increasing military commitments in the east of Suez, a "global Britain" strategy may be untenable in the long-run.