Geopoliticus May 29, 2019 China’s New International Commercial Courts: Threat or Opportunity? Eriks Selga In January 2018, the Chinese Communist Party put forward a Central Committee Opinion developing the idea for creating a... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 28, 2019 China Provides no Solution for Taiwan Alan H. Yang Once again, Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer was the focus of heated debate... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 24, 2019 Trump’s Ill-advised Pardon Mackubin Thomas Owens Recently, President Trump announced that he will pardon former Army First Lieutenant Michael Behenna, who was convicted of executing... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 22, 2019 Ignominious Facts: The Problem of Pardoning Soldiers for War Crimes Michael P. Noonan “I’d rather be judged by twelve, than carried by six.” This was muttered to me one day in Iraq... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 9, 2019 Perceptions of Russian Interference in U.S. Elections Matter as Much as the Actual Involvement Aleksandr Fisher Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election revealed insights into Donald... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 8, 2019 Volodymyr Zelensky: Ukraine’s Servant of the People? Stephanie Petrella In the first scene of Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky’s hit sitcom Servant of the People, three faceless oligarchs stand... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 7, 2019 India’s Completed Quest to Put Masood Azhar on the Global Terrorist List Sumit Ganguly In December 1999, Indian Airlines flight 1C-814 was hijacked shortly after taking off from Kathmandu, Nepal, en route to... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 2, 2019 Why Turkey and America Cannot Compromise in Syria Aaron Stein After three days of talks in Turkey, representatives from Washington and Ankara failed to reach agreement on the terms... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 2, 2019 Kim Jong-un is Meeting World Leaders, but Does It Matter? Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein As leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un’s track record in international relations has been virtually unprecedented. On April 25,... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 1, 2019 Korea: Back to First Principles Marvin C. Ott North Korea moved back into the headlines last week when its leader, Kim Jong-un, travelled to Vladivostok to meet... Read more »