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🚨 Are you a current doctoral student or recent PhD graduate working on Indo-Pacific security issues? Apply for a post-doc fellowship to work with our director Oriana Skylar Mastro (@osmastro) and the IPPL, offered through @StanfordCISAC! Application link in comments.
I’m so pleased to announce a great post-doc opportunity with the Indo-Pacific Policy Lab at Stanford (@StanfordIPPLab). Find all the details and apply here: cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/conte…
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Lab Director Dr. Oriana Skylar Mastro (@osmastro) gives her read on what "strategic autonomy and indispensability" means for the U.S.-Japan relationship:
I heard one particular phrase over and over again from our Japanese counterparts while in Tokyo with Stanford's @HooverInst this month. My take on what "strategic autonomy and indispensability" means for U.S.-Japan defense ties and Indo-Pacific security:
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From Tokyo, Director Oriana Skylar Mastro (@osmastro) shared her thoughts on Japan's evolving role in U.S.-led allied industrial production:
Spending a week in Tokyo with Stanford's @HooverInst pushed me to think about how Japan can play a role in the future of allied industrial production:
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Director Oriana Skylar Mastro (@osmastro) gives her view of Taiwan deterrence from Japan:
After a week in Taiwan, I headed to Japan with Stanford's @HooverInst for another round of meetings. My view of Taiwan deterrence from Tokyo:
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🧵 (1/3) What makes the U.S. alliance network so unique? How does its asymmetric structure inform our partnerships in Asia? And what does the future of the network at large look like today?
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(2/3) Professors Iain D. Henry (@IainDHenry, @ANU_SDSC), Galen Jackson (@WilliamsCollege), Paul Poast (@ProfPaulPoast, @UChicago, @ChicagoCouncil), and Andrew Yeo (@AndrewIYeo, @CatholicUniv, @BrookingsFP) pitched in with some answers to these questions.
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🧵 (1/3) What do China, Russia, and North Korea want from each other? What are their individual and collective aims in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? And what signals should we be reading to better understand the present status of their alignment?
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(2/3) Experts Hyun-Binn Cho (@BinnCho), Stephan Haggard (@StephanHaggard), Marina Henke (@thehertieschool), and Kathryn Stoner (@kath_stoner, @StanfordCDDRL) answered these questions in a series of memos published on contemporary China-Russia-DPRK relations.
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Stanford Indo-Pacific Policy Lab’s Director Dr. Oriana Skylar Mastro (@osmastro) shares some of her insights on the future of deterrence, viewed from Taiwan:
Some final thoughts from my time in Taiwan with Stanford's @HooverInst:
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🧵 (1/3) What drives cooperation between Russia, China, and North Korea? How do differences and similarities in ideology inform the relationships that make up this axis of autocracy? And what can the historic context of the Cold War tell us about China-Russia-DPRK ties today?
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(2/3) We asked Gregg Brazinsky (@GBrazinsky, @GWTweets), Jeremy Friedman, (@JeremySFriedman, @UTAustin), Rana Mitter (@KennedySchool) and Kathryn Weathersby (@Georgetown) to fill in the gaps.
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Stanford Indo-Pacific Policy Lab's Director Dr. Oriana Skylar Mastro (@osmastro) shares some insights from her recent trip to Taiwan:
I've spent the last week in Taiwan with a delegation from Stanford's @HooverInst, discussing questions of deterrence and readiness with counterparts from across Taiwanese industry, gov't, and think tanks. A few takeaways from my trip to Kaohsiung:
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I've spent the last week in Taiwan with a delegation from Stanford's @HooverInst, discussing questions of deterrence and readiness with counterparts from across Taiwanese industry, gov't, and think tanks. A few takeaways from my trip to Kaohsiung:
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🧵 (1/3) How are great power politics and alliances playing out in the Indo-Pacific? How has international relations theory succeeded & failed in defining the Sino-Russian relationship? And what are the consequences of potential misunderstanding for U.S. interests in the region?
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(2/3) We got some answers from experts Charles Glaser (@MIT_SSP, @ElliottSchoolGW), Dan Reiter (@EmoryPolisci), Sebastian Rosato (@NotreDame), and Jack Snyder (@Columbia_PolSci).
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(3/3) Check out their full memos on the dynamics of great-power alignment in military affairs, viewed through different theoretical, historical, methodological, and policy lenses, available to read here: indopacpolicy.com/great-powe… @StanfordCISAC @FSIStanford #IndoPacific
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