Articles

2025

• Substack, March 26: Japan’s Ruling Party Faces an Italian-Style Reckoning

  • Compares the electoral decline of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and compares it to the historical downfall of Italy’s Christian Democracy (DC) in the 1990s.

• New Eastern Europe, February 27: Kazakhstan’s nuclear future runs through Europe

  • Analyzes how Kazakhstan’s multi-vector foreign policy and interest in developing nuclear energy capabilities will open a new opportunity for collaboration with France and other nuclear energy states in the EU. These states will want to receive greater access to Kazakhstan’s uranium to reduce their reliance on Russian uranium, and in exchange, companies like EDF could help develop Kazakhstan’s first nuclear energy power plant.

• Byline Times, January 31: Trump's Return is the Perfect Opportunity to Restore the UK as a Development Superpower

  • Makes the case for the UK to reestablish the Department for International Development (DFID) to restore itself to development superpower status while the second Trump administration leaves behind significant and dangerous voids in international development efforts.

• National Interest, January 16: The Security Implications of Yoon's Failed Self-Coup in South Korea

  • Analyzes the fallout of Yoon’s failed self-coup in South Korea on its emerging security relations with the Camp David Entente and AUKUS Pillar II.

2024

• Anticipations, December 12: Britain must pioneer AI regulations in entertainment industries

  • Argues that the UK must be proactive in establishing regulations on the usage of AI in entertainment industries, and that the UK could become a global leader in such regulations due to its status as a cultural superpower.

  • The Fabian Society published the full Autumn issue of Anticipations online later that month.

• New Eastern Europe, November 29: Europe still needs a security council

  • Covers how the need for a European Security Council (ESC) has only grown with Trump’s reelection to the US presidency, how the ESC could act as a regional steering committee for European security policymaking, and discusses how an ESC with 12-14 members could be composed of 5 core members and 7-9 supporting members serving 5-year and 2-year staggered terms (respectively).

  • This article was republished on Lithuanian Radio and TV (LRT)’s English language website.

• Compass, October 11: The Labour government must do more to prove its commitment to constitutional reform

  • Proposes that the Starmer ministry call a royal commission into UK constitutional reform (primarily for the House of Lords and the electoral system) and re-establish the Department for Constitutional Affairs.

• The New European, September 2: It’s time for a progressive alliance on electoral reform

  • Argues that the Labour Party should work with the Liberal Democrats and Greens to enact electoral reform in the UK before the next election.

• Mosaic, August 2: What Andy Kim’s Senate nomination could mean for the Asian American community

  • Describes how Andy Kim’s Senate campaign is historic for it being the first headed by a Korean American, and how this visibility could be leveraged to address social issues disproportionately impacting Asian Americans.

• New Atlanticist, July 19: How to institutionalize NATO’s cooperation with its closest Pacific partners

  • Following NATO’s 50th anniversary Washington summit, this piece proposes the formation of an Atlantic-Pacific Partnership Forum (APPF) to formalize platforms for cooperation between NATO and the Indo-Pacific Four (Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan).

• New Eastern Europe, June 6: How the expected Eurosceptic surge in June’s European elections may strengthen the European Parliament

  • Argues that the rise of Eurosceptic populists in the European elections may ironically empower the European Parliament due to the increasingly competitive nature of informal coalition building within the body.

• The Diplomat, May 17: The Indo-Pacific Could Be Within Europe’s Reach

  • Proposes that European militaries could develop a stronger expeditionary capacity in the Indo-Pacific region through the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force, but that such a move would only happen if there was consensus in NATO for this to occur.

• Internationale Politik Quarterly, April 11: What Germany Can Learn from Japan’s Zeitenwende

  • Highlights how Japan’s historical aversion to militarism is similar to Germany’s, and how Germany could take some key lessons on implementing its “Zeitenwende” agenda from Japan’s example.

• UkraineAlert, April 2: Putin is weaponizing corruption to weaken Europe from within

  • Discusses how Kremlin-aligned Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk was found to be bribing European politicians to promote Russian interests and the continued vulnerabilities the EU and US exhibit against weaponized corruption.

• New Atlanticist, March 28: The G7 needs a permanent secretariat. The 2024 elections cycle demonstrates why.

  • Proposes that the Group of Seven establish a permanent secretariat to institutionalize some of its policies, pool its staff resources, and create a policymaking body alongside the G7 president. A secretariat would help counter the emerging Russia-Iran-North Korea axis and China’s strategic competition, and keep action addressing climate change on track.

• New Atlanticist, February 28: After 14 years in opposition, what might a Labour foreign policy look like?

  • Examines the historical roots of “progressive realism” that forms the basis of the UK Labour party’s Lammy doctrine, which emerges from the legacies of UK Foreign Secretaries Ernest Bevin and Robin Cook.

• The Diplomat, February 16: The Prospects for Taiwan-EU Cooperation

  • Argues that Europe should bolster its economic and political relations with Taiwan following the election of Lai Ching-Te, even though the Legislative Yuan has a divided status.

• New Atlanticist, February 7: Charles Michel’s U-turn has not solved the thorny question of who the next European Council president will be

  • Discusses Charles Michel’s potential successors as president of the European Council following his decision not to run in the June 2024 European elections.

• New Atlanticist, February 1: Ursula von der Leyen has delivered major wins on decarbonization. What would she do with another term?

  • Analyzes the effectiveness of von der Leyen’s European Green Deal and REPowerEU Plan in pushing Europe towards decarbonization, and what she may do if elected for a second term as president of the European Commission.

• New Atlanticist, January 17: Even as Brexit awkwardness remains, the UK and EU should work together on decarbonization

  • Highlights opportunities for continued UK-EU cooperation on sustainability and climate action following Brexit.

2023

• New Atlanticist, December 15: The EU needs a buyers’ club for critical minerals. Here’s why.

  • Proposes that the EU-led critical raw minerals club be connected to the US-ROK-Japan Camp David Entente’s supply chain early warning system to make them more resilient.

• New Atlanticist, December 8: Ukraine in the EU would be a game-changer for Europe’s decarbonization drive

  • Analyzes how Ukraine’s EU accession process, linked to its clean energy-based reconstruction, could influence EU green industrial policy.

• NK News Pro, December 8: How North Korean support for Russia and Hamas compels Seoul to pivot West

  • Examines ROK’s likely responses to DPRK’s support for the Kremlin and Hamas in the Russo-Ukrainian and Israel-Hamas Wars, respectively.

• The Diplomat, December 7: What’s Next for the South Korea-UK Relationship?

  • Following the signing of the ROK-UK Downing Street Accord, this article argues in favor of a ROK-UK Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) that would increase ROK and UK’s security presence in Europe and the Indo-Pacific, respectively.

  • This article was later cited among RAA proposals on Wikipedia’s article on RAAs.

• The Diplomat, September 9: Why South Korea Has Emerged as a Key Partner to the Transatlantic Community

  • Discusses how ROK has increased cooperation with the transatlantic community in the domains of cybersecurity, nuclear non-proliferation, and semiconductor and EV production.

• New Atlanticist, June 1: The G7 can take NATO-EU climate cooperation to the next level

  • Proposes that the G7 should begin inviting the NATO Secretary-General to G7 summits to facilitate NATO-EU cooperation on climate action.

• EnergySource, March 10: Clean industrial policies: A space for EU-US collaboration

  • Compares the differences between the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and EU Green Deal Industrial Plan (GDIP) in promoting clean energy-based industrial policy, primarily in the US’s fiscal strengths compared to the EU’s regulatory prowess.

• Foreign Policy, March 7: The UK Has a Chance to Stop Backsliding on Climate

  • Argues that the then-impending refresh to the UK Integrated Review should emphasize climate action and leadership as a key element of UK foreign policy and national security strategy.

2022

• Foreign Policy, May 23: Corruption Could Mean Ukraine Loses a Future Peace

  • This article reached #3 on Foreign Policy’s top trending articles worldwide.

  • Highlights the potential transparency measures that could be used to prevent corrupt actors in Ukraine from disproportionately benefiting from reconstruction aid, including reporting and recalling mechanisms for aid.

• World Economic Forum, January 31: What's behind China’s cryptocurrency ban?

  • Connects China’s cryptocurrency bans with existing measures to curb capital flight from China.

2021

• Fair Observer, September 29: The US Must Keep Tunisia’s Slide Toward Autocracy in Check

  • Suggests that the US should restrict military aid to Tunisia as an accountability measure following growing repression in the country.

• The Diplomat, August 26: Will Japan Become a Hub for China and Russia to Evade Sanctions? 

  • Written and published prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this article analyzes how Japan’s sanctions mechanisms have to be coordinated and harmonized between other G7 members to prevent potential sanctions evasion by China and Russia. This article was later republished in The Japan Times.

• National Interest, February 3: Post-Pandemic Tourism Could Boost China’s New Digital Currency

  • Examines how China’s tourism industry could be a vector for the adoption of China’s CBDC overseas.

2020

• The Diplomat, November 26: A Financial Alliance Won’t Help China and Russia Dethrone the US Dollar

  • Discusses the relative strength of the US Dollar in international trade, even with the rising trend of de-dollarization led by China and Russia.

• The Graduate Institute Press, June 9: The 1918 Pandemic, the First Red Scare, and How the US Almost Slid into Authoritarianism in the Early 20th Century

  • Describes how the 1918 Pandemic and the First Red Scare coincided with growing political repression in the United States, and led to the founding of both the FBI and the ACLU.