Suchergebnisse

The USS sieve -- The coming storm -- The new geopolitical icebergs -- Life on the no longer permanent permafrost -- The global economy : waiting for the ship to come in -- A short history of modern geopolitics, as seen from the deck of a ship -- The great cold rush of -- Precipitating change in Asia and beyond -- Today's weather -- The story so far -- Interesting times, narrowing options -- Water -- Building a geopolitical ark -- Drawing lines in the water -- Fighting over Atlantis -- Your point is?

This is an old Southeast Asian saying: "We are like the grass between two elephants. We will be crushed underfoot regardless of whether they fight or make love." This saying is much repeated these days now that the United States and China are in open competition in the Asia-Pacific region. By taking advantage of American and Chinese desires to engage in the region, Southeast Asia can become a champion of non-traditional security issues such as water resource management and countering climate change -- issues that must be solved by collective action among states. These are not the traditional "hard security" domain of the neo-realists. Adapted from the source document.