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Stephen M. Walt

Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professsor of International Affairs. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean ofSocial Sciences. He...

M. Taylor Fravel

M. Taylor Fravel is Associate Professor of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program at MIT. Taylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he received his PhD. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Olin Institute for...

Holloy Morrow

Holly Morrow has expertise on Asia and energy issues from both the private and public sector. As former senior adviser for the Asia Pacific at ExxonMobil, she was responsible for analysis and strategy for the company on Asian political and economic affairs. Morrow...

Richard N. Rosecrance

Richard Rosecrance is an Adjunct Professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, a Research Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was formerly a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Walter...

Force Majeure

Force Majeure

(Photo Credit: AP) (BGF) - This recent article, published in The Economist, discusses the relative impunity China is able to act with in its territorial disputes in the South China Sea. As the article notes, China's actions, such as placing an oil rig off the coast of...

Vietnam Won’t Be Pushed Around By China

Vietnam Won’t Be Pushed Around By China

(Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images) (BGF) - Recently The Boston Globe published an article discussing Vietnam's history of conflict with, and resistance against, China. In light of Vietnam's long history of resisting Chinese actions, H.D.S. Greenway argues that, although...