A puzzle of BRICS is why countries such as India and China work together within the group despite facing consistently difficult bilateral border tensions. This contribution argues that the multilateral logic of BRICS gives its members a chance to cooperate. As emerging powers, BRICS members need to adopt a collective approach to enhance their voices in the global governance system. Existing eviden...

In recent years, a major practice of regionalism in Japan’s diplomacy has undoubtedly been its proposal and implementation of the “Indo-Pacific” concept. The term “Indo-Pacific” is not only a spatial concept that combines the respective natural and geographical regions of the two oceans, but it is also a new cross-domain discourse structure and to a geat extent a geopolitical construct. In the...

From April 2015 to the spring of 2017, the United States will chair the Arctic Council (AC). Based on the “National Strategy for the Arctic Region” issued by the Obama Administration on 10 May 2013, the U.S. government has announced an ambitious program for its two-year term as chair of the AC. According to the materials provided by the U.S. Department of State, the theme of the U.S. chairman...

Key Words: The Polar Silk Road, China-Russia Arctic cooperation, Foreign Policy, International Relation Dramatic changes, mainly caused by global warming and globalization in recent decades, have been evident in the Arctic. The peace and stability of the Arctic, scientific research in the region, potential business opportunities and international governance have sparked widespread attentio...