Introduction: The U.S. War against ISIS: How America and Its Allies Defeated the Caliphate
As the world has watched the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the likelihood of close military contact between the United...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Introduction: The U.S. War against ISIS: How America and Its Allies Defeated the Caliphate
A nation must think before it acts.
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Understanding Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Introduction On February 24, 2022 Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. In times of crisis, balanced, in-depth analysis and...
The U.S. Is Facing a Sputnik Moment in the International Economy
Beijing is ahead in the race for establishing a global digital currency standard At the Beijing Olympics—in addition to...
The Russian Navy in the Russia-Ukraine War Scare
Shortly after the conclusion of the Russian-Belarusian strategic Zapad-2021 exercise, open-source analysts, corroborated by U.S. intelligence findings, began reporting...
Turkey’s Careful and Risky Fence-Sitting between Ukraine and Russia
On February 3, 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan traveled to Kyiv, where he met with his Ukrainian counterpart,...
Should ECOWAS Rethink its Approach to Coups?
This article originally appeared in International Policy Digest on January 31, 2022. On January 9, the West African bloc...
Beijing’s Olympic Moments, 2008 and 2022: How China and the Meaning of the Games Have, and Have Not, Changed
For China and for the world engaging with China, much has changed between the 2008 Summer Games and the...
Lithuania Fever in Taiwan: Can China Break It?
What do rum, milk, beer, and chocolate all have in common? Other than a fun night and an upset...
Great Power Competition and Beijing’s Olympic Moment
The assessments and conclusions in this analysis are those of the author alone and do not necessarily represent those...
Chinese Economic Engagement in Africa: Implications for U.S. Policy
China may have missed the European Scramble for Africa that characterized the turn of the last century, but it...