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Could the U.S. Play Offense in China's Back Yard?
Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman
Jan 13, 2022
Foreign Policy
Relations with Cambodia and Laos have fallen victim to the U.S. administration's foreign policy priority of shared values over shared interests. This approach has failed to make headway in Cambodia and Laos, isolates the United States in a region where few countries are true democracies, and unnecessarily cedes ground to Beijing.
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Russia
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Speaking Aloud What NATO Has Left Unsaid Could Help Ease Ukraine-Russia Impasse
Samuel Charap @scharap
Jan 13, 2022
Financial Times
A statement that NATO has no intention to offer Ukraine membership at present should only be made in return for a tangible drawdown of Russian forces on the border. It concedes nothing to declare that NATO is not planning to do something it has no intention of doing anyway.
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Fighter Aircraft
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Is Russia's Su-75 'Checkmate' Aircraft a Case of Vapor Marketing?
John V. Parachini @JohnParachini, Peter A. Wilson
Jan 6, 2022
Defense One
During a Moscow air show last summer, Russia rolled out a mockup of the Su-75, a multipurpose fighter-bomber designed to compete in the global marketplace. But given the Russian aerospace sector's difficulties in developing, let alone delivering, advanced combat aircraft, prospective buyers should consider a range of options to meet defense needs.
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Security Cooperation
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Taiwan and Six Potential New Year's Resolutions for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance
Jeffrey W. Hornung
Jan 5, 2022
War on the Rocks
How might the United States and Japan prepare for possible conflict with China over Taiwan, and ensure forces are postured to operate together? The alliance could benefit from greater clarity, and practical conversations could make a better and stronger alliance in the new year.
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Democracy
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South Korea's Presidential Election: Beyond Mudslinging, What Gives?
Soo Kim @mllesookim
Jan 3, 2022
Nikkei Asia
The 2022 South Korean presidential campaign has focused largely on personal attacks and allegations of corruption with little attention being paid to pressing issues facing the nation. The absence of meaningful policy debate and clarity on policy deliverables will continue to leave the South Korean electorate largely uninformed about what may be the most important decision they will make in 2022.
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Russia
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Russia May Underestimate Ukraine and NATO
William Courtney @courtneywmh, Peter A. Wilson
Dec 27, 2021
Moscow Times
Moscow has unveiled outlandish security demands that sound aggressive and suggest that it may underestimate both NATO and Ukraine. Kremlin leaders might consider instead seeking a stable European security architecture that protects Russia's interests while also allowing for a vibrant and sovereign Ukraine.
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Taiwan
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Taiwan Would Be Better Off Alone
Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman
Dec 23, 2021
Nikkei Asia
Relinquishing diplomatic partners could free Taiwan from an unwinnable competition with China and refocus attention on what really matters: reducing China's coercive power by strengthening relationships with powers that can truly help.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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The Most Popular RAND Research of 2021
Dec 22, 2021
As another extraordinary year draws to a close, we continue to believe that objective, nonpartisan research and analysis has a key role to play in navigating what continues to be a difficult time. Here are the 10 research projects that resonated most with rand.org readers in 2021.
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International Diplomacy
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Biden's Southeast Asia Policy Still Has Much to Prove
Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman
Dec 17, 2021
Foreign Policy
As the Biden administration's first year comes to a close, how is the United States faring in Southeast Asia? Washington got a lot right, but it could do better to optimize competition against China and work on a more sensitive understanding of the delicate and at times precarious position Southeast Asian states are in.
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North Korea
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North Korea's Nuclear Arsenal and Prospects for Regional Peace
Soo Kim @mllesookim
Dec 16, 2021
Prospects and Perspectives
Nuclear talks between the United States and North Korea have hovered at a standstill since 2019. With the door to diplomacy seemingly closed and North Korea marching forward on weapons development and making threatening statements, what are the prospects for Pyongyang's denuclearization and peace on the Korean Peninsula?
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Russia
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Deterring Putin in Eastern Europe
Terrence Kelly, Timothy M. Bonds, Michael Johnson
Dec 16, 2021
The RAND Blog
After having gone years without a significant threat from Russia, NATO leaders and legislatures now may be recognizing that the security environment has changed and that the more comfortable political status quo is gone. But if NATO were to decide to stand firmly together, conflict in Europe may be deterred and strategic stability restored.
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Warfare and Military Operations
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Ready for Take-Off? The Next Generation of UK Maritime Air Power
James Black
Dec 10, 2021
LUFTLED
The recent deployment of a Carrier Strike Group represents a marked shift in the United Kingdom's ambitions and capabilities for power projection in both the maritime and air domains. The United Kingdom is hoping to work closely with NATO Allies to enhance the Alliance's collective ability to deploy maritime airpower as part of a flexible posture that can deter and respond to threats both close to home and far afield.
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Security Cooperation
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Russia and Ukraine, Climate Migration, Democracy in Asia: RAND Weekly Recap
Dec 10, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on Russia and Ukraine, planning for climate migration, the state of democracy in Asia, and more.
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Taiwan
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Preventing China from Taking Taiwan
David Ochmanek, Michael O'Hanlon
Dec 9, 2021
The Hill
The single most challenging high-end threat to a key American national security interest today is probably a Chinese invasion attempt against Taiwan. The United States could try to make that scenario unthinkable for Beijing by ensuring that China cannot dominate the western Pacific region.
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Ukraine
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If Russia Invaded Ukraine
William Courtney @courtneywmh, Peter A. Wilson
Dec 8, 2021
The Hill
The United States and NATO worry that Russia may be planning an invasion of Ukraine. A renewed crisis could spur the United States and its NATO allies to go beyond, perhaps well beyond, their responses to Russia's 2014 assault.
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Taiwan
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The Counterintuitive Sensibility of Taiwan's New Defense Strategy
Raymond Kuo @Kuorum1
Dec 6, 2021
War on the Rocks
As the United States prepares to deter China from attacking Taiwan and defend it from an attack, are the Taiwanese themselves doing everything they can to defend their territory?
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Speaking Aloud What NATO Has Left Unsaid Could Help Ease Ukraine-Russia Impasse

Is Russia's Su-75 'Checkmate' Aircraft a Case of Vapor Marketing?

Taiwan and Six Potential New Year's Resolutions for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance

South Korea's Presidential Election: Beyond Mudslinging, What Gives?

Russia May Underestimate Ukraine and NATO

Taiwan Would Be Better Off Alone

The Most Popular RAND Research of 2021

Biden's Southeast Asia Policy Still Has Much to Prove

North Korea's Nuclear Arsenal and Prospects for Regional Peace

Deterring Putin in Eastern Europe

Ready for Take-Off? The Next Generation of UK Maritime Air Power

Russia and Ukraine, Climate Migration, Democracy in Asia: RAND Weekly Recap

Preventing China from Taking Taiwan

If Russia Invaded Ukraine

The Counterintuitive Sensibility of Taiwan's New Defense Strategy

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