A Machiavellian U.S. and Japan’s Northern Territories BY GREGORY CLARK DEC 12, 2016 The coming visit to Japan by Russian President Vladimir Putin is already following a familiar pattern. Well before the Russian (or Soviet) leader arrives we are told how Tokyo will resolutely press its claim for the return

Targeted protectionism can aid developing economiesBY GREGORY CLARKNOV 28, 2016 There was much irony in the fact that Peru this year came to host the recent annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. APEC began life as the 1970s brainchild of some anti-communist Japanese and Australian National University academics. They wanted a

Trump will have to overcome the U.S. foreign policy ‘Blob’BY GREGORY CLARKNOV 18, 2016 U.S. President Barack Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes once described the U.S. media, think tanks and other establishment critics trying to dominate the crafting of foreign policy as the “Blob.” They still exist. So while the anti-Donald