China-US Rivalry: Sleepwalking Into War? If confidence building measures and the adoption of an arms control regime in the South China Sea, China and the US risk stumbling into a catastrophic war. Source: https://madrascourier.com/policy/china-us-rivalry-sleepwalking-into-war/
Future of International Institutions and Soft Balancing Institutions have long been used as a means for soft balancing, including by the US. However, the US and its allies cannot ignore the norms of the rules based international order, for to do so risks undermining the shared norms soft balancing depends on. Source: http://blog.yalebooks.com/2018/10/18/the-future-of-international-institutions-and-soft-balancing/
The Power of Non-Alignment Finding themselves caught between the giants of the United States and China, small states of the Asia-Pacific are not destined to become pawns in the midst of great power competition; instead they can resurrect the ‘Bandung spirit’ and adopt a policy of non’alignment through the use of soft-balancing. Source: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-power-of-non-alignment/article25185002.ece
