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
Soft Balancing vs. Hard Clashes: The Risks of War Over the South China Sea To minimize the risk of conflict in the South China Sea, all parties should consider measures to alleviate the dangers that arise from time pressures. Source: https://www.globalasia.org/v13no3/feature/soft-balancing-vs-hard-clashes-the-risks-of-war-over-the-south-china-sea_tv-paul
How India will React to the Rise of China: the Soft-Balancing Strategy Reconsidered To restrain China India is likely to form both a soft-balancing coalition and limited hard balancing coalition, but the formation of a traditional hard-balancing coalition with the United States is very unlikely. Source: https://warontherocks.com/2018/09/india-and-the-rise-of-china-soft-balancing-strategy-reconsidered/
India’s Strategic Roadmap India’s Strategic Roadmap Today or tomorrow, China will likely turn against India. New Delhi must be ready for when the time comes. Source: nationalinterest.org/feature/indias-strategic-roadmap-28322
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Political Science Professor T.V. Paul has been elected the 56th president (2016-17) of the International Studies Association (ISA), a respected and widely known scholarly association in the field of international studies. Paul, the James McGill Professor of International Relations and a leading scholar of international security, nuclear proliferation and South Asia, is the third Canadian […]
