Israel and the Asian states have developed contacts for some time, but the details remain vague.[1] Israel has commercial ties with China, but what about military ties? Prime ministers Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi met in 2017, but what did they talk about?[2]
Tag: Singapore
H-Diplo | RJISSF Review Essay 111: Yaacob on Guan, Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategic Thought
Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, was one of Asia’s strategic thinkers.[1] He was a prominent political leader and statesman who played a crucial role in transforming Singapore into a prosperous modern nation-state. Washington elites often sought the views and advice of this statesman and global strategist on strategic issues relating to Asia. When…
H-Diplo | RJISSF Review Essay 108: Glas on Guan, Singapore’s Grand Strategy
Ang Cheng Ang’s Singapore’s Grand Strategy is an engaging, expansive, and empirically rich book detailing the contours of Singaporean foreign and defense policy from its founding to the present. The book is particularly timely. Singapore completed its first leadership transition in nineteen years as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong handed power to his deputy, Lawrence…
Roundtable 4-8 on Hard Interests, Soft Illusions: Southeast Asia and American Power
Why do key Southeast Asian states seem to cleave to the perception that the United States is a benign and stabilising force in the region, in spite of its debatable record during and after the Cold War? In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions: Southeast Asia and American Power, Natasha Hamilton-Hart demonstrates that the ruling regimes in…