Who Benefits from China’s “One Belt, One Road” Initiative?
Under its Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road (commonly known as the “One Belt, One...
A nation must think before it acts.
Year: 2016
Two-and-a-Half Years After ISIS’s Rise: Global Jihad Spreads And Morphs
Today, Islamic State foreign fighters bleeding out of Iraq and Syria power an unprecedented wave of directed attacks on...
Taiwan’s Summer of Dire Straits
The summer of 2016 has proven to be a brutal one for the people, president, and pocketbooks of Taiwan....
It All Started When He Hit Me Back
[Editor’s Note: This blog entry originally appeared on Michael Neiberg‘s personal blog and has not been edited in any...
GI Go Home, Again: The Philippines-U.S. Alliance Weakens
On Tuesday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte abruptly demanded that American military advisors on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao...
Getting Tougher: Vietnam’s Response to China’s South China Sea Bases
Over the last few months, Vietnam has quietly deployed the components of several Extended Range Artillery (EXTRA) rocket systems...
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Are You Staying, Or Just Passing Through? The Geopolitics Of Asylum
European politics have been roiled over the past few years by the question of how the EU as a...
Hackers Gonna Hack, Hack, Hack, Hack, Hack…
This week’s news brings us a new allegation that a hacker group “The Shadow Brokers” leaked files that supposedly...
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Donald Trump on ISIS: Being Wrong, and Saying It Wrong, Too
Is it the nature of things that action should partake of exact truth less than speech? -Socrates, The Republic...
Turkey: From “NATO’s Anchor” to What?
On Monday, the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet Gazetesi published the backstory to President Recep Erdoğan’s meeting in St. Petersburg with...