Since its launch in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) quickly has become the
cornerstone of foreign policy for the People's Republic of China (PRC) under Xi Jinping's …

This article presents the first comprehensive collation of available information on China's
provision of security force assistance (SFA) to African countries over the last two decades …

Despite considerable debate on the normative foundations of Chinese international
development cooperation and how they compare with those of traditional donors, positivist …

States exist in an anarchic international system in which survival is the necessary precursor
to fulfilling all of their citizens' other interests. Yet states' inhabitants–and the policymakers …

Governments spread strategic narratives via media to influence foreign audiences and
policy makers. A frequent but understudied feature of strategic narratives is the discursive …

This article challenges the presumption that American commitment to the greater Indo‐
Pacific region has positive effects on regional stability. It argues that the degree to which …

Constantly analyzed in scientific, theoretical, and empirical studies, the “Asian
Mediterranean” region has received renewed attention as a consequence of the rise of …

Whether pundits and policymakers admit it or not, the United States is a great power in
relative decline. It is not like the former Soviet Union and soon to fall into the dustbin of …

The paper describes the growing human rights gap between China on one side and the US
and Taiwan on the other side and analyses its impact on cross-strait relations. Since Xi …

With the continuous improvement of China's comprehensive national strength, international
observers could find that China has become more assertive in dealing with its territorial …