Ted Galen Carpenter (Aspenia)


Proche-Orient

How the West should respond to a divided Iraq

Accepting spheres of influence in the 21st century

US security retrenchment : the first effects of a modest shift

The West and Iran in Central Asia : more competition or cooperation ?

North Korean behavior, Chinese pressures, and the Syrian danger

East Asia reacts to a bolder Japan

Prodding China to pressure North Korea : how US policy should change

China’s military spending : no cause for panic

China as a prickly, but pragmatic, revisionist power

Syria’s civil war and the dangers of the Middle East power struggle