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Energy Security

The Revenge of Energy Security: Reconciling Asia’s Economic Security with Climate Ambitions

Energy security has risen to the top of the economic agenda across the Indo-Pacific in...

Erica Downs, Vandana Hari, Meredith Miller, Jennifer F. Sklarew, and Rahul Tongia

Report

Illustration by Nate Christenson

Semiconductor Supply Chains

Bolstering and Securing Semiconductor Supply Chains

Su Hyun Lee

Commentary

The Quad

Quad Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: Regional Security Challenges and Prospects for Greater Coordination

Jonathan W. Greenert, Kei Koga, Kate Sullivan de Estrada, Alison Szalwinski, and Mark R. Watson

Roundtable

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APEC 2023

Energy Security and Trade in APEC

Mikkal E. Herberg

Carbon Neutrality in APEC by 2050

David Wogan

Critical Minerals Trade and the Green Energy Transition

Kristin Vekasi

APEC 2023: A Useful and Realistic Digital Agenda for the United States’ Host Year

Nigel Cory

China in Africa

Knitting the Pieces of China’s Emerging Strategy in Africa

Rachel Bernstein, Yunnan Chen, Daria Impiombato, Mareike Ohlberg, Mandira Bagwandeen, Roukaya Kasenally, and Nadège Rolland

China's Emerging Africa Strategy

Nadège Rolland

Political Front Lines: China's Pursuit of Influence in Africa

(In)Roads and Outposts: Critical Infrastructure in China’s Africa Strategy

IN THIS ISSUE

Diplomacy and Ambiguity: Constructing Interests in Cooperation

The Survival of Mobile Firepower An Uncertain Factor in Taiwan’s Asymmetrical Defense

Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing in Southeast Asia: Trends and Actors

Rajesh Basrur’s Subcontinental Drift: Domestic Politics and India’s Foreign Policy

MAPPING CHINA’S STRATEGIC SPACE

How Land and Sea Powers Look at the Map

The Political Culture of Imperialism in the German Kaiserreich

Mental Maps, Territorial Imaging, and Strategy Thinking about the Japanese Empire

Constructing Russia’s Strategic Space: Empire, Identity, and Geopolitics

To the Grand Area and Beyond The Sudden Transformation of the United States’ Strategic Space

The Qing Conception of Strategic Space

Conceptions of Strategic Space in Republican China

China’s Strategic Space in the Mao Era

LEGACY OF SENATOR HENRY M. “SCOOP” JACKSON

Remembering Scoop

Implementing Senator Jackson’s Values and Vision

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.