Cortez A. Cooper III

China’s Grand Strategy

Trends, Trajectories, and Long-Term Competition

To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report identified and character...

Regional Responses to U. S. -China Competition in the Indo-Pacific

Singapore

In this report, the authors assess the impact of the changes in China's strategic behavior and U.S.-China relations over the past decade on Singapore ...

Alternative Futures Following a Great Power War

Scenarios, Findings, and Recommendations

RAND researchers generated four plausible near-term great power war scenarios and assessed how they could shape the postwar strategic environment....

Managing Escalation While Competing Effectively in the Indo-Pacific

This report assesses how China may react to U.S. military activities in the Indo-Pacific. It provides a framework of factors likely to determine Chine...

Conference Proceedings on Indian and U. S. Security Cooperation

Defense Production, Indo-Pacific Region, and Afghanistan

A two-day conference explored Indian and U.S. views on security across the Indo-Pacific, informed by six papers discussing bilateral security cooperat...

Options for Strengthening ROK Nuclear Assurance

Many in the Republic of Korea (ROK) are not feeling assured by the U.S. nuclear umbrella. The authors propose options for strengthening that assurance...