Michael Rubin, 1945
Bilateral relations between the United States and Turkey have never been so bad for so long. While diplomats and some analysts in Washington self-flagellate and blame the United States for the sustained break in relations, the reality is that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Cait Storr, Lowy Interpreter
A decision made under electoral pressure in the 1980s
has lasting consequences for policy in the present.
Christopher Vassallo, The Diplomat
Xi Jinping's campaign of repression in Xinjiang is tinged with an urgency that only historical parallel can provide. The Soviet Union's collapse haunts his brutal crackdown there. Xi and his advisors have long identified ethnic unrest and separatist forces at the fringes of Soviet empire as one impetus for the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Xi's eyes, before his extreme intervention, similarities between Chinese and Soviet ethnic policy risked a disastrous... Читать дальше...
Rumer & Sokolsky, Carnegie
The specter of a defense alliance between Russia and China is haunting U.S. discussions about great power competition and even made it onto the transatlantic security agenda during President Biden's recent European trip. Relations between Moscow and Beijing are indeed at an all-time high, and the two neighbors are pursuing some high-profile cooperative defense ventures. But the relationship falls well short of an...
Lili Bayer, Politico EU
EU leaders weren't present when Joe Biden met Vladimir Putin in Geneva this week but their territory will be a testing ground for whether Moscow has decided to change its ways.
Jamie Shea & Michael John Williams, Atlantic Council
NATO is a political-military alliance, but the political element has been lost in recent years, frustrating those such as the NATO 2030 Reflection Group who argue that the Alliance should be the premier forum for transatlantic policy coordination and crisis management. The Biden administration has a unique opportunity to reset NATO and take up the Reflection Group's recommendations.