Michael Richter, Riddle
So it remains an open question how effective these sanctions will be. And with the experience of previous rounds of sanctions, most analysts expect the pipeline to get there. However, the scope of these measures — and what they do not cover — brings a wider insight into the battle of narratives over the pipeline, a battle that the pro-pipeline side has been...
S. Jaishankar, Newsweek
We enter 2021, hoping to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us. While each society has dealt with it uniquely, global diplomacy will nevertheless focus on common concerns and shared lessons. Much of that revolves around the nature of globalization.
A. Chassany, FT
Beijing and Moscow are using jabs to court poorer nations — but the EU and US are barely noticing.
Eli Fuhrman, 1945
North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capabilities have developedsignificantly in recent years, and North Korea now likely possesses the capability to strike the entirety of the U.S. mainland. North Korea's success in developing its ICBMs is due in large part to the success that North Korea has had in developing its ballistic missile arsenal as a whole. Indeed,...
Robert Moore, RealClearWorld
The new administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has wasted no time wading into the impactful terrain of foreign policy and national security. On his first day in office, Biden announced that the United States would rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and would reverse the Mexico City...
Sean Roberts, Foreign Affairs
China's Imperial Past Hangs Over the Uyghurs
Maya Kahwagi & Kermit Jones, FP
Health care initiatives could be the key to rebuilding U.S. influence in the region—and healthier economies and societies for the region's citizens.
Brian Monteith, Scotsman
Thirty-eight years ago I was 25. They were, for me at least, good times. I had a nice flat overlooking Wandsworth Common and was meeting people from all corners of Britain who would become friends for life. Outside my Edinburgh born, bred and educated environment (that I remain proud of) I was discovering new ways of thinking, new cultural attitudes and new freedoms.
Robert Bociaga, The Diplomat
When the National League for Democracy closed its first term in government last year, peacebuilding in Myanmar was already at a crossroads.
Ian Easton, Taipei Times
In 2007, James Mann published a book that sent shockwaves through the entire China-watching world. His ideas were more than contrarian. They were radical.
Brad Glosserman, Japan Times
A deliberately opaque corner of Japanese security policy is this country's relationship with Taiwan. Taiwan is vital to Japanese national security and, to put it delicately, a government in Taipei that makes its own decisions well serves Tokyo (as long as it doesn't go too far).
Helen Dale, CapX
After the January 6 Capitol Riot - in a long and thoughtful piece addressing the descent of many American partisans into paranoid conspiracism - Nebraska GOP Senator Ben Sasse not only tore strips off what is sometimes called the legacy media and decried the fantasists of QAnon. He also argued that the corporate leviathans of Big Tech are dreadful at what they do.
Hal Brands, Bloomberg
Replacing the Bretton Woods system was as important as military might in defeating the Soviet Union.
A. Omran, Al-Mon.
Egypt and Greece carried out military exercises in the Northern Fleet in the Mediterranean to counter potential threats on their maritime borders amid tensions with Turkey.
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George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden took two steps in the Middle East. The first was that he notified Congress of his intention to remove the Houthis fighting in Yemen from the government's list of foreign terrorist organizations. The second was that he said the U.S. would end its support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen and would review its relationship with Saudi Arabia over concerns about that country's human rights record. In and of themselves, these two actions have little meaning. Читать дальше...
Robert Kaplan, Time
Realism in foreign policy reflects a messy, dangerous world where too little can be distilled into clear-cut moral absolutes, and thus national interest takes precedence over universal values. Nevertheless, a world ravaged by war, migration, refugee flows, and a demand for dignity across ethnic, religious, and racial lines requires a morally sustainable foreign policy rooted in idealism. Yet realism and idealism can work together. The American diplomatic tradition at its... Читать дальше...
