Order from Chaos

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko meets state security officials in Minsk, Belarus September 27, 2021. Maxim Guchek/BelTA/Handout via REUTERS

Rule of law takes a big hit during COVID-19

Ted Piccone · Monday, October 18, 2021

U.S. Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, General Colin Powell, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff and General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander, U.S. Central Command, stand during an award ceremony prior to the Welcome Home parade honoring the coalition forces of Desert Storm, in an undated file photograph in New York City, U.S. SSgt. Charles Regne/U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS.

Remembering Colin Powell and a pivotal moment before the Gulf War

Monday, October 18, 2021

Berlin, Germany.- German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (left) and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (right) attend a meeting of European Union defense ministers in Berlin, Germany on August 26, 2020. The meeting discusses missions and operations and the situation in Belarus and the eastern Mediterranean.

The world won’t wait for Germany’s coalition negotiators

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, Russia September 29, 2021. Sputnik/Vladimir Smirnov/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Turkey’s Kurdish obsession explains Putin’s gains and US strains

Ömer Taşpınar

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses, via prerecorded video the General Debate of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 24, 2021. Peter Foley/Pool via REUTERS

Post Afghanistan, US-Pakistan relations stand on the edge of a precipice

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Staff cleans the table of a restaurant that is decorated with Taiwan flags in Taoyuan, Taiwan, October 8, 2021. REUTERS/Ann Wang

How are people feeling in the “most dangerous place on Earth”?

Shelley Rigger, Lev Nachman, Chit Wai John Mok, and Nathan Kar Ming Chan

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

A women sitting on her couch is working from home due to the confinement due to the corona virus pandemy. Paris, France. April 10 2020.Une femme assise sur son canape fait du teletravail en raison du confinement pendant la pandemie de coronavirus. Paris, France. 10 avril 2020.NO USE FRANCE

Worsening global digital divide as the US and China continue zero-sum competitions

Monday, October 11, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with members of the government via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia October 5, 2021. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS

Repackaging Pandora: How Russia’s information apparatus is handling a massive leak of data on offshore finance

Friday, October 8, 2021

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Tianjin, China in this handout picture released July 26, 2021. U.S. Department of State/Handout via REUTERS

Working toward responsible competition with China

Patricia M. Kim

Friday, October 8, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A woman carries an infant as she queues in line for food, at the Tsehaye primary school, which was turned into a temporary shelter for people displaced by conflict, in the town of Shire, Tigray region, Ethiopia, March 15, 2021. Picture taken March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo

The exemplary U.S. sanctions regime for Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict and its limitations

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, October 1, 2021

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat acknowledges applause during a Joint Session of Congress in which U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced the results of the Camp David Accords, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 18, 1978. Library of Congress/Warren K. Leffler/Handout via REUTERS

What Anwar Sadat’s murder 40 years ago meant for the Middle East

Friday, October 1, 2021

Pakistani military personnel stand beside short-range Surface to Surface Missile NASR during Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

--FILE--Chinese customers try out Apple's iPhone 6 or 6 Plus smartphones at a store in Yichang city, central China's Hubei province, 9 July 2015.The number of Chinese mobile phone users accounted for 94.5% of its total population by the end of June, latest data showed. In the first half, China saw 6.88 million new mobile phone users, bringing the country's total mobile phone users to 1.29 billion, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said in a statement. The ratio of mobile phone users to population was higher than 100% in nine provincial-level regions, including Beijing, Shanghai, as well as provinces of Guangdong and Zhejiang. The number of users choosing broadband mobile internet services (3G and 4G services) reached 674 million by the end of June, accounting for 52.1% of all mobile phone users.No Use China. No Use France.

China’s “digital natives”: How the post-’90s generation is transforming the country

Monday, September 27, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Workers make Chinese flags at a factory in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

China moves to join the CPTPP, but don’t expect a fast pass

Thursday, September 23, 2021

US President Joe Biden (L) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) meet virtually with their counterparts in the Quad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan, from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington DC, USA, 12 March 2021. No Use Germany.

ASEAN and the Quad: Strategic impasse or avenue for cooperation?

Jonathan Stromseth

Thursday, September 23, 2021

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