India and the Quad: The Potential and Pitfalls under a Trump Presidency

The Quad Foreign Minister’s meeting convening on the sidelines of the inauguration of a new US administration under Donald Trump is significant. The meeting in the year India […]

County Report: Japan (December 2024)

The last third of 2024 was nothing less than a disaster for Japanese foreign policy. After the publication of memoires detailing the seedy side of the momentous decade […]

Country Report: Russia (November 2024)

Along with some coverage of Ishiba Shigeru’s start as Japan’s prime minister, attention this fall has centered on the BRICS summit—which Russia hosted in Kazan—and on China and […]

Southeast Asia and Japan’s New Leadership

On October 1, 2024, Ishiba Shigeru was inaugurated as Japan’s 102th prime minister. He is an experienced politician in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with in-depth knowledge of […]