Assessing Syria Policy Leaves More Questions than Answers
Aaron Stein has done a real service in his June 15 piece, Assessing the Biden Administration’s Interim Syria Policy....
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Assessing Syria Policy Leaves More Questions than Answers
A nation must think before it acts.
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ASEAN’s Search for a Third Way: Southeast Asia’s Relations with China and the United States
Stung by Southeast Asian criticism of Chinese behavior in the South China Sea at the 2010 ASEAN Regional Forum,...
Assessing the Biden Administration’s Interim Syria Strategy
After taking office in January, the Biden administration began a review of American policy in Syria and the ongoing...
Russia is Hammering the U.S. in Cyberspace, Why is Biden Meeting with Putin at All?
In 2009, while working in Washington, D.C., I remember the issue of Russian criminal syndicate hacking arising for the...
A Wave of “Smile Offensives” in the Middle East: Why, and How Real?
Regional power politics in the Middle East have, since the Arab Uprisings of 2011-13, played out on two overlapping...
How China Seized the Initiative on Blockchain and Digital Currency
Global information networks are undergoing unprecedented innovation, driven in large part by the emergence of disruptive technologies such as...
Taiwan and the Future of its International Participation Efforts
On May 24, the World Health Assembly began its annual meeting, again focusing on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. And...
China’s Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Capability in the South China Sea
In August 2020, China fired what were reported to be anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM) into the South China Sea....
The Three Seas Initiative and Realizing a Foreign Policy for the Middle Class
Since taking office, President Joseph Biden has promoted a foreign policy for the middle class, a key promise from...
Understanding the Origins of Pan-Islamism during World War I
The German-Ottoman jihadization of Islam during World War I led to the development of the first Sunni theory of...