The U.S.-Japan Summit: Uneventful and Indecisive
Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide’s summit with U.S. President Joseph Biden was awaited with a mixture of anticipation and...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The U.S.-Japan Summit: Uneventful and Indecisive
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Analysis
U.S. Force Structure Changes in Europe: Necessary, but not Sufficient
The recently announced decision to increase the U.S. military presence in Europe by sending 500 additional troops to Germany...
The Evolution and Escalation of the Islamic State Threat to Mozambique
When Islamist insurgents laid siege to the coastal town of Palma in gas-rich northeastern Mozambique on March 24, leaving...
Palm Oil: Malaysian Economic Interests and Foreign Relations
The relative importance of the factors that drive Malaysian foreign policy has long been opaque. Historically, decisions have been...
Biden Takes on China
Future historians may well consider President Joseph Biden’s recent comments on China as a pivotal moment in the history...
Building Soft Power Back Better?
The Biden administration has multiple competing priorities: COVID-19 and its economic impacts, long-ignored racial fissures, and a growing tenuous...
China’s Two Sessions—And What They Mean for the United States
Every March, nearly 5,000 delegates descend on Beijing for the meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and...
Rosneft, Gazprom, and Russia’s Failure to Adopt Green Policies
The Russian Federation is on a collision course with climate change. In 2019, it ranked fourth in annual carbon...
The Jihad Legacy of World War I
Known as a pious Muslim, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said in 2015 that it is most difficult to...
Germany’s Transatlantic Ambiguities
Hopes for a spectacular relaunch of the European Union’s Franco-German “motor” after Brexit have thus far failed to materialize....