Crescent group of disputed Paracel Islands, 2008. via Wikimedia Commons.
The arena of a number of competing territorial claims – including from China, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan – the South China Sea is at the core of converging regional interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Encompassing an area through which 40 percent of the world’s …
A Kurdish Woman Fighter. Photo Source: jan Sefti via Flickr Creative Commons.
The story here is both old and new. It is one of women’s undoubted emancipation in the West contrasted with their necessary oppression in the Muslim world; a story that has been conveniently told and retold so many times that any nuances have …
Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Darwin. Photo source: Kristopher Wilson via Wikipedia Commons.
Australia is often overlooked as an important contributor to East Asia’s economic and security developments in analyses regarding the region’s maritime environment. Though situated on the periphery, divided from the main areas of concern by the Indonesian archipelago, Australia has close ties, …
U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft fly over northern Iraq Sept. 23, 2014. Photo Source: US Department of Defence via Wikimedia Commons.
The campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (so-called Islamic State or I.S.) has become the newest and most high profile front in the War on Terror. Since the …
Peace activists demand resumption of Peace – Morohistorywatch via Wikimedia Commons
The Mindanao Conflict is classified as a part of a group of distant forgotten conflicts hardly ever gaining coverage in Western media over the past decades. It is one of the oldest conflicts with its roots dating back to the early 16th century. The …
The ‘Great White Fleet’ returns to the United States, 1909. This circumnavigation by some of the United States’ most powerful warships demonstrated the United States’ increasing status as a great power. Photo Source: Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons.
In December 1902, British and German warships imposed a blockade upon Venezuela after the refusal of …
U.S. Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command – Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Corey Lewis , U.S. Navy via Wikimedia Commons
“I repeat that spying among friends is not at all acceptable against anyone, and that goes for every citizen in Germany.”
Angela Merkel
A statement that has resonated with me since the …
U.S. Pacific Fleet in waters East of Okinawa (July 30, 2014) via Flickr Commons
The world’s oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth. They have been and still are an integral part of human history, our food chain and environment. Yet, most geopolitical discussions nowadays are focused on land based territorial disputes. This …
The #NotABugSplat installation as seen from a drone. Reprinted with permission from #NotABugSplat.
In a previous article for Future Foreign Policy, I discussed the psychological impact of drone vision – the imagery relayed to the drone pilot via drone camera – and what features of it renders killing-by-drone simultaneously simple and complicated. One aspect considered, …
Decumanus Maximus of Palmyra – by Bernard Gagnon. via Wikimedia Commons.
The self-proclaimed ‘Islamic State’ (‘IS’) is stronger than it was when it was first proclaimed on 29 June last year. The group’s ability to keep winning victories was confirmed on 17 May in Iraq, when it seized Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, and …
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