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100141
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ID:
133159
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2014.
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Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's goal is simple: end all doubts about his country's status as a first-tier nation. From inventing the Abenomics program, intended to spark an economic rejuvenation, to creating new security institutions as well as articulating new defense policies and doctrines, the Abe administration has focused on creating the conditions which would allow Japan to more forcefully assert and defend its national interests. Over a year into his first term, signs are good: the economy has rebounded; defense spending is up; Tokyo has pursued a new, aggressive diplomacy re-establishing its bona fides in the region and beyond; and the Japanese seem to be more optimistic about their prospects.
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124528
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2013.
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This critical comment examines the incentives, major priorities, difficulties and first results of the Russian military reform that is being implemented since 2008. The authors conclude that despite numerous drawbacks and barriers to the reformist efforts certain successes can be identified. Particularly, there is a clear shift from the old-fashioned, Soviet-type army to a more compact, mobile, better equipped and combat-ready armed forces that are capable to cope with today's challenges to Russian national security.
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121557
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2013.
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A QUESTION haunts America: Is it in decline on the world scene? Foreign-policy discourse is filled with commentary declaring that it is. Some-Parag Khanna's work comes to mind-suggests the decline is the product of forces beyond America's control. Others-Yale's Paul Kennedy included-contend that America has fostered, at least partially, its own decline through "imperial overstretch" and other actions born of global ambition. Still others-Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institution and Stratfor's George Friedman, for example-dispute that America is in decline at all. But the question is front and center and inescapable.
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