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The Global South: A new North Star
We live in surprising times. Many short-term shocks continue to surprise us: the...
How Asia Keeps the Peace
Since the end of the Cold War, Europe has constantly had to manage violent conflicts on...
Asia’s Third Way: How ASEAN Survives—and Thrives—Amid Great-Power Competition | Foreign Affairs
Some memories never fade. Exactly forty years ago, in 1983, I called on the then-editor...
The World Cup of diplomacy has just kicked off
India, Indonesia and the United States will chair three key multilateral groupings in...
French President Emmanuel Macron’s embrace of diverse views offers hope for ‘true multilateralism’
I think I may have made President Emmanuel Macron blush a little. This happened at the...
America Can’t Stop China’s Rise
There’s little doubt that the American government has decided to slow China’s economic...
The View from Singapore
It is understandable that Australian leaders may feel insecure, even paranoid, about...
India can emerge as a third pole
The days of a unipolar world order are over, and we are on the cusp of a genuinely...
The Hard-Won Benefits of Soft Diplomacy
Culture matters for diplomacy, and Indonesian President Joko Widodo embodies the “soft”...
What’s Next for Xi’s China?
The Western media have done Xi a great favor: they have bestowed upon him low...