U.S.-Iran Escalation in the Age of COVID-19
On the night of March 11, approximately 18 107mm Katyusha rockets hit Camp Taji near Baghdad. The attack killed...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
U.S.-Iran Escalation in the Age of COVID-19
A nation must think before it acts.
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What To Do about Idlib
Sadness and tragedy come in many forms. One form consists in knowing how to solve a problem in theory,...
How is Central Asia Handling the COVID-19 Pandemic?
As the novel coronavirus (now classified as COVID-19) spreads around the world, Central Asia sits as a lonely region...
Poisonings, Political Crises, and Missed Opportunities in Abkhazia
Abkhazia, one of Georgia’s breakaway regions, faces a major political crisis—its presidential frontrunner was allegedly poisoned for the second...
North Korea Stuck between a Rock and a Hard Place: One Year after the Hanoi Summit
When Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un declared the “completion of the DPRK’s nuclear forces”...
Idlib: The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
Given the challenges they face, including an emerging disease pandemic and volatile markets, world governments may be tempted to...
COVID-19 Crisis: Political and Economic Aftershocks
Nearly 100,000 people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the new coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China, in late...
Asian Politics in Time of Corona
After every disaster, there is a search for answers: how did this happen, what could have been done to...
“Fifty Shades of Gray”: A Tribute to Colin S. Gray (1943–2020)
Colin S. Gray, a prolific Anglo-American scholar and strategist, died last week after a decades-long contest with cancer. A...
If U.S. Forces Have To Leave The Philippines, Then What?
The Philippines began the process of terminating its Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States in mid-February. In...