If Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in November, the question he will face is not whether to restore the liberal international order. It is whether the US can work with an inner core of allies to promote democracy and human rights while... Read More
Washington must ramp up support for vulnerable partners—before it’s too late. Read More
China is passing a series of inflection points. The most fundamental one is demographic: The Chinese population is on track for a decline. Read More
The success of the so-called teal candidates means the Liberal Party no longer has any electorates overlooking Sydney Harbour. Independent... Read More
Three days after Russia invaded Ukraine, the German government said it would spend €100bn on modernising its army, the Bundeswehr. For... Read More
When the United States, Japan, Australia and India first resuscitated their informal dialogue from a... Read More
Until now, America’s policy has been one of strategic ambiguity: this meant not saying whether or not it would come to... Read More
Just some days ago, I returned from my second trip to Ukraine since the beginning of the war. Many of the long hours of the train trip to... Read More
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised the specter of nuclear war, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has placed his nuclear forces... Read More
Decades of Western support for dictators have caused a crisis of democracy. Read More
The open military invasion into Ukraine, which began in late February 2022, became a crisis for the Russian political system... Read More
Russia’s foreign minister and its ambassador to the United States have both signaled that Russia’s debacle in... Read More
To be sure, all the traditional tools of investment analysis still matter. Geopolitics is not a magic 8-ball. It is an intellectual... Read More
LONDON — When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared his opposition to Finland and Sweden entering NATO, it took most of... Read More
If Leo Tolstoy were writing about today’s business conditions, he might have noted that happy economies are all alike but every unhappy... Read More
Germany has developed a credibility problem since the invasion of Ukraine because of its history as a partner of Russia. This could have an... Read More
The new president will take the reins at a time of high inflation and monetary tightening in the global financial system. Read More
BERLIN — A few weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, Moscow resident Vera Bashmakova took a public stand, displaying a message... Read More
As discussed recently on 60 Minutes and in other media, the great prima ballerina of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, Olga Smirnova, has fled... Read More
In this episode, Alex Bristow, deputy director of ASPI’s defence, strategy and national security program, speaks to Euan Graham,... Read More
As the U.S. and its democratic allies and partners face an array of consequential national security threats, the rules-based world order... Read More
Russia is facing a manpower shortage and has a series of hard political choices to make, as it seeks to continue its invasion of Ukraine. To... Read More
CSIS’s Seth Jones joins the podcast to discuss how Russia’s war with Ukraine could become a “frozen conflict,” as the... Read More
Russian President Vladimir Putin is amassing a large force near the Ukrainian border and reportedly has a military plan to invade and... Read More
Nearly twenty years have passed since al-Qaeda terrorists carried out the attacks of September 11, 2001.1 During that interval, the... Read More
The United Kingdom has also delivered significant contributions to Indo-Pacific defense, deploying a carrier strike group in 2021 and two... Read More
Ankara has listed the presence of what it calls terrorists in Sweden and Finland as its main objection to their accession but other factors... Read More
The war in Ukraine drags on, but there are signs of change. Read More
Download the Brief The Issue There has been a significant rise in the number of domestic terrorist attacks and plots at demonstrations in the... Read More
Through trade, investment, and strategic diplomacy, China is re-shaping sub-Saharan Africa. Beijing has growing economic ties with... Read More
In the last three decades, Bangladesh has elected two prime ministers, both women. Its national and local governments have a growing number... Read More
Can’t the Littoral Combat Ship Be Repurposed? Can the U.S. Navyleadership really not find a use for its flotilla of littoral... Read More
Russian forces commenced their invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. As plenty of analysts have pointed out, this is more fruitfully seen... Read More
War, extreme weather and export controls are all contributing Read More
Let’s just look down the list of his likely objectives. Read More
The former German chancellor is little more than a Putin crony Read More
They began to show up more and more in 2019: people were displaying symbols of separatism at protests in different regions of Russia. One... Read More
By abandoning neutrality, the two countries have significantly changed the geopolitics of Europe Read More
As Ukrainian society faced the shock of Russia’s seizure of Crimea in March 2014, separatist protests coordinated by Russian... Read More
KRAKOW, Poland — Fresh from its triumph over the last armed Ukrainian resistance in the devastated city of Mariupol, Russia appeared to... Read More
During the first three months of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine’s ability to defeat Russia on the battlefield has astonished the... Read More
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, as the song has it—and now let us meet the new dictators and see whether they are the same as... Read More
European leaders have reassessed Russia’s intentions and are balancing against the threat that Putin poses to the territorial status quo. Read More
In 2017, when Australia, India, Japan, and the United States restarted their informal, four-way dialogue known as the Quad, many were... Read More
The risk of disrupted energy supplies is not only in Europe but a danger in the Indo-Pacific, too. Read More
In 1980, the M-19 guerrilla movement stormed a diplomatic reception in Bogotá and kidnapped US envoy Diego Asencio, holding him and... Read More
If Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in November, the question he will face is not whether to restore the liberal international order. It is whether the US can work with an inner core of allies to promote democracy and human rights while... Read More
