John West

Could another country replace China as the world’s economic growth leader, or could China reset for a new phase of economic leadership? This is the...

Many analysts may say the world is in a new Cold War, but it isn’t, writes Odd Arne Westad in his new book, The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and...

The mission of the U. S.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Iran would be more a national-security state than a theocracy, writes Vali R Nasr in his book Iran’s Grand Strategy:...

China would not be the superpower it seems, renowned historian Frank Dikotter argues in his book, China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower . The...

China would not be the superpower it seems, renowned historian Frank Dikotter argues in his book, China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower . The...

The Vietnam War has left deep social and political scars on the U. S.

‘No two peoples are more alike than Americans and Chinese… masses and elites are united in the faith that theirs is a uniquely powerful nation that...

We have left behind the hyperglobalisation of the 1990s, and since 2006 moved into the age of economic warfare, according to Edward Fishman in his...

In the four decades before 2010, the United States maintained a policy of engagement with China, notwithstanding such fluctuations as the reaction to...