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...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
COVID-19 Crisis: Political and Economic Aftershocks
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Analysis
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...
Will Alexandar Vučić’s Presidency Explode? Botched Agent Running, Corruption Allegations Imperil Putin’s Balkan Ally
It is no small irony that a Belgrade brewpub named the “Black Sheep” should be the site of an...
What North Korea’s Coronavirus Measures Say About Its System
The North Korean government response to the coronavirus has been extreme, but prudent and reasonable in context. It has...
What the Iowa Caucus Means for Russia
The complicated political dance that is the Iowa caucus devolved into a flustered and chaotic disaster for the Democratic...
The Enduring Legacy of French and Belgian Islamic State Foreign Fighters
The Islamic State’s attacks in Paris in November 2015 and Brussels in March 2016 demonstrated ISIS’s reach from the...
The Future of Russia’s Su-57: Few Customers and Little Interest Abroad
On December 24, Russia’s Sukhoi-57 (Su-57) fighter jet crashed in the country’s Far East dur-ing a test flight. The...
The Next Front: China and Indonesia in the South China Sea
“There is no territorial dispute between Indonesia and China,” has been an often-heard refrain from Indonesia’s leaders for decades....