Commentary / Japan Mar 22, 2020
U.S.-India relations shape Japan's strategic environment
by Ramesh Thakur
Japan's strategic environment is shaped by the intersection of three major geopolitical storylines.
Commentary / Japan Jan 22, 2020
In the competition for Southeast Asia influence, Japan is the sleeper
by Brad Glosserman
Tokyo's insistence on the value of a rules-based order, the heart of its Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision, has sunk in.
Commentary / Japan Jan 21, 2020
Where India fits in Japan's Indo-Pacific strategy
by Titli Basu
The South Asia giant has grown increasingly prominent in Japan's regional strategy.
Commentary / Japan Jan 14, 2020
Toward an Indo-Pacific concert of democracies
by Brahma Chellaney
If democratic powers leverage their bilateral and trilateral partnerships to generate progress toward such a concert of democracies, the vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific may be achievable in the years ahead.
Commentary / Japan Dec 12, 2019
Shifting into the era of the Indo-Pacific
by Stephen R. Nagy
The Indo-Pacific era should not and must not be defined by the U.S.-China strategic competition.
Commentary / Japan Dec 11, 2019
Indo-Pacific at the heart of rules-based order
by J. Berkshire Miller
The region is facing a host of shared challenges from maritime piracy and crime to heated territorial disputes.
Commentary / Japan Nov 22, 2019
Japan and India — a special relationship
by Aman Thakker and Elliot Silverberg
As the world's economic center of gravity shifts to Asia, it increasingly falls to these two countries to take up the baton to champion freedom, inclusivity, trade and other liberal values.
Commentary / Japan Nov 14, 2019
Japan's precarious Indo-Pacific balance
by Stephen R. Nagy
Japan's sustained economic growth and regional stability will not be served if Japan-China relations are securitized.
Commentary / World Nov 14, 2019
America's feeble Indo-Pacific strategy
by Brahma Chellaney
The United States has allowed Chinese expansionism in Asia to continue virtually unimpeded.
Commentary / World Oct 30, 2019
Asia faces a time for choosing
by Curtis S. Chin and Jose B. Collazo
At the ASEAN summit, the path forward should be to double down on and recommit to the principles that have brought Southeast Asia success in recent decades.
Commentary / World Oct 29, 2019
Trump's Indo-Pacific strategy at year two
by Elliot Silverberg and Matthew Sullivan
The U.S. president's actions raise questions about his commitment to the region.
Commentary / World Sep 2, 2019
Changes on the Indo-Pacific's geopolitical chessboard
by Brahma Chellaney
Today, with the specter of Asian power disequilibrium looming, the China factor has gained greater salience in the equations between and among the major Indo-Pacific powers.