(Photo Credit: Flickr/The White House) (BGF) - Often, the current relationship between the U.S. and China is viewed as a Thucydidean Trap - essentially a struggle for power between two powers. In this article Shannon Tiezzi looks back at the U.S.-Chinese diplomacy and...

(Photo Credit: Reuters) (BGF) - Recently BU Today published an article by Thomas U. Berger, Associate Professor of International relations at Boston University. In this article Professor Berger discussed the U.S.-Japanese security relationship and China's increasingly...

(BGF) - In this article, J.D. Bindenagel assesses Russia's actions in the Ukraine through the lens of Putin's experience in East Germany in 1989. During his time as KGB officer, Putin was stationed in East Germany during the German democratic revolution that...

(Photo Credit: AP) (BGF) - In this article featured in The New York Times, by Hugh White, addresses three policy options facing the U.S. regarding China's aggression in East Asia. The first option would be for the U.S. to follow through on its agreement to defend...

(Photo Credit: AP) (BGF) - In this article from The Japan News discusses China's territorial claims in the South China Sea and the aggressive measures it is taking to enforce those claims. As the article notes, China has had a number of aggressive encounters with the...

(Photo Credit: Information Dissemination) (BGF) - The Eurasia Review recently published the testimony provided by Daniel R. Russel, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, which he presented to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations...