Mark Galeotti, Moscow Times
While no big results came out of the Putin-Biden talks, it would be a mistake to consider the conversation futile and fruitless.
Mustafa Saadoun, Al Monitor
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United Nation special representative in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, met today, Dec. 7, with the Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr, whose party won the largest numbers of seats in the recent parliamentary elections.
B. Taleblu & A. Stricker, The Dispatch
The Biden administration has barely responded to Iran's escalation of its nuclear program.
Joshua Rovner, War on the Rocks
Cyberspace intelligence is particularly important for restraint. First, it exploits durable U.S. advantages in technology and personnel. The United States educates computer scientists and engineers in world-class universities, and Silicon Valley firms give them a place to cultivate their skills. The intelligence community benefits from this extraordinary talent pool, though public-private relations are sometimes difficult. Government spending on cyberspace... Читать дальше...
Daniel DePetris, Reason
Supplying the Ukrainian army hasn't stopped Putin.
Michael Hayden, Cipher Brief
OPINION — I was a Brigadier General 30 years ago, assigned in Europe as the head of intelligence. Most of the time I was looking at the Balkans because there was a war going on. Yugoslavia lasted for 72 years and then it was gone; it fell apart.
Kataryna Wolczuk, Chatham House
In October, Moldova came under the spotlight when Russia, its primary provider of gas, slashed supplies by a third and refused to extend the existing contract.
Archil Gegeshidze & Thomas de Waal, Carnegie Eur.
Georgia's cultural clashes have exacerbated the country's political polarization. These divisions challenge the country's democratic processes and relations with Western partners.
Pavel Baev, PONARS Eurasia
Russia has traditionally pursued a properly articulated but low-cost policy on climate change and ecology more generally. Putin's participation in the climate summit called by Biden in April 2021 was correct on discourse but scarce on commitment, even if it was gradually dawning on Moscow that in order to make its chairmanship in the Arctic Council a success, it needed to develop a more impactful agenda. What focused the...
Atal Ahmadzai, Foreign Policy
The group is normalizing death and despair in the Islamic Emirate.
Americas Quarterly
Old foes like inflation may endanger the recovery, a leading economist says.
Daniel Fried, Newlines
Russian President Vladimir Putin, following the playbook of 20th century tyrants, is threatening full-scale war against Ukraine to get … something. Putin's demands keep shifting: no Ukrainian membership in NATO, no Western military relations with Ukraine, a new security order in Europe, no offensive missiles stationed in Ukraine (something the U.S. has not considered or even imagined). The Kremlin's "red lines" seem improvised. But the underlying demand seems clear... Читать дальше...
Syailendra & Sebastian, EAF
International relations of the Asia Pacific since the end of the Cold War and the era of US unipolar domination has focussed primarily on cooperation. This has anesthetised policymakers to the reality of a new era of intensifying political, economic and military competition, which necessitates strategies like AUKUS.
Colin Clarke, FPRI
The recently discovered Omicron variant of the coronavirus is already forcing vaccine mandates and new waves of lockdowns in countries worldwide, fueling violent protests from anti-vaxxers and anti-government extremists, respectively. In Italy, anti-vaxxers have linked up with far-right extremists, a...
Yuen Yuen Ang, Foreign Affairs
How Will China's Bureaucrats Interpret His Call for "Common Prosperity?"
Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic
By attacking the past, Putin and his supporters are also attacking the future.
Pavel Luzin, Riddle
Information about the build-up of Russian troops at the Ukrainian border and gloomy forecasts about the timing of a possible Russian invasion of...
