What’s in a Name?: Strategy Behind the “Indo-Pacific”
Throughout his tour of Asia in November 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly referred to the region through which...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
What’s in a Name?: Strategy Behind the “Indo-Pacific”
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Geopoliticus
Conflicted over Trump’s Jerusalem Announcement
I'm an Israeli, a Zionist and an orthodox Jew. I admit—I am conflicted about the Trump administration’s plan to...
Spared a War: Abe’s Victory and Japan’s Rearmament
I made my genuine Thanksgiving on October 27. The occasion was Mr. Abe’s crushing victory in the Japanese election;...
Jamaican Shipwreck: Will Merkel Go Down with the Ship?
For more than a month, representatives of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister...
What to do During a Coup? Shocked Citizens of Zimbabwe Weigh Their Options
A visitor to Zimbabwe's capital city could be forgiven for missing the apparent military coup underway at Harare’s "Blue...
Mugabe Is Out, but Don’t Look Away from Zimbabwe Just Yet
Zimbabwe and the rest of the world awoke this morning to an apparent military coup that has so far...
Conflict Escalation: China and India’s Territorial Dispute in the Himalayas
During the summer of 2017, an unusually volatile territorial spat between China and India erupted in the Himalayan Mountains....
Trump’s Seoul Speech: All the Right Points, Still No Way Forward
President Trump’s speech in South Korea’s National Assembly on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 was likely the best foreign policy...
There Is Still Room for Compromise in Catalonia
The Catalan independence crisis feels intractable. Ministers who defied the Spanish Constitutional Court to organize an independence referendum on...
Riyadh’s Great Leap Forward?
One of the clear analytical distinctions that could be made about the “Arab Spring” (2011-2014) was the marked stability...