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PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY

Registration is now open for NBR’s December 3–5 PLA Executive Education Course for Analysts and Practitioners in Washington, D.C. NBR senior fellow for Chinese security Roy Kamphausen will serve as the course’s senior mentor, providing key context and takeaways to participants throughout the course.

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Derisking Supply Chains

De-risking Global Supply Chains: Looking Beyond Material Flows

This essay examines supply chain de-risking driven by two forces: (1) the renewed concerns of...

Tinglong Dai and Christopher S. Tang

Essay

Indonesia

Indonesia’s Future: Political, Economic, and Foreign Policy Challenges under Prabowo

Navhat (Nava) Nuraniyah, Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Muhammad Habib Abiyan Dzakwan, Yohanes Sulaiman, and Ann Marie Murphy

Roundtable

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Cyberspace and Digital Policy

The U.S. International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy

Christopher Painter

Interview

Ukraine War

Japan's Response to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Paul O’Shea

Japan’s Energy Security Strategy: The Implications of Fukushima and Ukraine

Jennifer F. Sklarew

China-Russia Energy Relations in the Wake of the War in Ukraine

Erica Downs

Regional Responses to the Russia-Ukraine War

Michael J. Green, Nargis Kassenova, Pavel K. Baev, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rajesh Rajagopalan, Jeffrey Reeves, Matthew Kroenig, and Clementine G. Starling

Democracy in Asia

Unpacking the Outcome of India's 2024 Election

Ian Hall and Rohan Mukherjee

Perspectives on South Korea's 2024 Election

Ahn Ho-young and Eunjung Lim

Putin’s Special Electoral Operation

Kathryn E. Stoner

Indonesia Elects Prabowo

Ann Marie Murphy

MAPPING CHINA’S STRATEGIC SPACE

How Chinese Strategists View, Understand, and Contend with Russia’s Strategic Space

Mapping China's Strategic Space

China’s View of Its Economic Sphere of Influence, Economic Security, and Trading Networks

Cooperation, Coexistence, and Contestation in India’s and China’s Overlapping Strategic Spaces

Geography Matters, Time Collides: Mapping China’s Maritime Strategic Space under Xi

National Insecurity: Frontier Governance and Ethnic Policy in Contemporary China

Chinese Perspectives on the “Indo-Pacific” as a Geostrategic Construct

A Domain of Great Powers: The Strategic Role of Space in Achieving China’s Dream of National Rejuvenation

The Evolution of China’s Naval Strategy

China's Strategic Space in the Digital Undersea

Energy as a Strategic Space for China Words and Actions Point to a Competitive Future

China’s Geopolitical Code Shaping the Next World Order

The Polar Regions as New Strategic Frontiers for China

China’s Quest for Strategic Space in the Pacific Islands

The End of China’s Period of Strategic Opportunity Limited Opportunities, More Dangers

Central and Eastern Europe in Relation to China’s Strategic Space The Fizzling Out of a Ten-Year Campaign

Myanmar and China’s Fluid Frontier

Expert Spotlight

Nadège Rolland

Distinguished Fellow, China Studies

Two Sessions' Two-Step Politics Leads, Economics Might Not Follow

Knitting the Pieces of China’s Emerging Strategy in Africa

LEGACY OF SENATOR HENRY M. “SCOOP” JACKSON

Remembering Scoop

Implementing Senator Jackson’s Values and Vision

Lessons for an Unserious Superpower: Scoop Jackson on National Security and Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy (Part 1)

Lessons for an Unserious Superpower: Scoop Jackson on National Security and Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy (Part 2)

Spotlight

NBR’s Maritime Awareness Project (MAP) combines interactive mapping technology with rigorous analyses from the world’s leading maritime experts to serve as the authoritative resource on maritime issues.