Ryan Costello, Newsweek
President Joe Biden is pursuing a bold and transformative presidency. Having succeeded in passing the most progressive economic package in recent history with the narrowest of majorities, he is now feeling bullish about abolishing the filibusterto protect voting rights for Americans and secure other long-awaited reforms. In...
Nikolas Gvosdev, National Interest
Europe will always remain an important part of the world for U.S. foreign policy, but its centrality to American national and economic security is drawing to a close. How this rebalancing will happen during the 2020s will become the most critical geopolitical challenge facing the U.S. national security establishment.
Richard Heydarian, Nikkei
Indonesia and Philippines use very different strategies in dealing with Beijing.
Taylor Noakes, National Post
Europeans no more brought civilization to the Americas than they discovered it.
Zahra Hankir, Guernica
As the Lady Maria drifted along the Mediterranean Sea in the direction of Italy and Bassem watched Lebanon shrink away, he felt a combination of slighting contempt and triumph. The docked ships at the Port of Tripoli were the first bits of his homeland to vanish, and the bullet-holed high-rise buildings were the last. If the glistening waters were able, they would have whispered to Bassem that September afternoon that he should reconsider.
Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs
A Freighted Anniversary Becomes Talisman to Both Right and Left
Faisal Ali, Fletcher Forum
As talks over the Nile and Ethiopia's dam project stall, border clashes between Sudan have intensified. Regional and domestic political developments have caused a deadly flare-up in violence.
Anita Inder Singh, Lowy Institute
Washington has signalled a desire for closer ties with
New Delhi, but major challenges are yet to be answered.
Bilahari Kausikan, Foreign Affairs
When I served as a Singaporean diplomat, I once asked a Vietnamese counterpart what an impending leadership change in Hanoi meant for his country's relations with China. "Every Vietnamese leader," he replied, "must get along with China, every Vietnamese leader must stand up to China, and if you can't do both at the same time, you don't deserve to be leader."
Amir Handjani, Responsible Statecraft
The recent economic and security cooperation agreement signed by Iran and China will have far reaching consequences for geopolitics in the Middle East. For certain, U.S.-led effort to contain Iran regionally and strangle it financially surely pushed both countries in this direction.
M. Montgomery & T. Logan, SG
Washington, DC: Did China cause the blackouts in Mumbai last year? Nearly six months later, the answer is still unclear, but if recent reports that a Chinese cyber operation bears partial responsibility are accurate, Beijing just signalled a willingness to use its cyber power to target civilian lifeline infrastructure during...
David Hutt, Internationale Politik Quarterly
The US policy on Taiwan may be ambiguous. The EU's stand, however, is so ambiguous it barely exists. Brussels would do well to prepare for fast-rising tensions in the Taiwan Straight.
Simon Henderson, Washington Institute
With a basic knowledge of uranium enrichment and an interactive spreadsheet, governments and even the public can quickly work out how close Tehran may be to a nuclear weapon.
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
But the technological clash is taking place in a different context. Forty years of globalisation have ensured the deep integration of the economies of China and the west. Whether that integration can survive the intensification of great-power rivalries is the biggest open question about the new cold war.
Ido Vock, New Statesman
Disruption from the stranded container ship contains a warning for nations over-reliant on trade with far-off countries.
Conrad Black, National Post
The policy debate surrounding Native people absolutely must be taken away from the victim industry and radically reformulated
Allison Fedirka, Geopolitical Futures
Placing a country in the correct geopolitical framework is vital to understanding its behavior and its potential for acquiring power. At times, such placement is a much more complicated issue than meets the eye. A current case in point is Mexico, which on the surface appears to oscillate between North America and Latin America. The question of which category Mexico belongs in has tremendous geopolitical implications and based on our analytical...