Order from Chaos

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr shake hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Najaf, Iraq January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

Muqtada al-Sadr’s alliance: An opportunity for Iraq, the US, and the region

Ranj Alaaldin · Tuesday, May 17, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Philippine presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, delivers a speech during a campaign rally in Lipa, Batangas province, Philippines, April 20, 2022/.Eloisa Lopez//File Photo

A Marcos returns to power in the Philippines

Mely Caballero-Anthony

Friday, May 13, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Tunisian then-presidential candidate Kais Saied reacts after exit poll results were announced in a second round runoff of the presidential election in Tunis, Tunisia October 13, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi/File Photo

Tunisia is sliding back into authoritarianism. Here’s what the US should do.

Shadi Hamid and Sharan Grewal

Thursday, May 12, 2022

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden takes a question after announcing the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day for the next six months from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as part of administration efforts to lower gasoline prices, at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 31, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Taking stock of US-ASEAN relations as Biden convenes a special summit

Jonathan Stromseth

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Boys stand in line as they wait to receive meals from a charity kitchen during the holy month of Ramadan in Sanaa, Yemen April 18, 2022. Picture taken April 18, 2022. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

How to bolster Yemen and Saudi Arabia’s brittle peace deal

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

South Korea's president-elect Yoon Suk Yeol talks about his relocation plans for the presidential office during a press conference in Seoul on March 20, 2022. (Kyodo)==KyodoNO USE JAPAN

How will South Korea’s new president approach Russia’s Ukraine invasion?

Monday, May 9, 2022

France, Saint-Clement, 2022-05-01. Political campaign posters of the second round of the Presidential election are still seen one week after Emmanuel Macron s re-election, in a small village of Allier department. Photograph by Adrien Fillon / Hans Lucas. France, Saint-Clement, 2022-05-01. Les affiches de campagne du second tour de l election presidentielle une semaine apres la reelection d Emmanuel Macron, dans un petit village du departement de l Allier. Photographie par Adrien Fillon / Hans Lucas.

Macron survives, but how long can the center hold in France?

Célia Belin and Agneska Bloch

Friday, May 6, 2022

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, October 9, 2019. Parker Song/Pool via REUTERS

Does the China-Solomon Islands security pact portend a more interventionist Beijing?

Patricia M. Kim

Friday, May 6, 2022

A drone operator from the French 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment launches a drone during an area control operation in the Gourma region during Operation Barkhane in Ndaki, Mali, July 27, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier SEARCH "TESSIER MALI" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

What makes a drone strike “legitimate” in the eyes of the public?

Paul Lushenko and Sarah Kreps

Thursday, May 5, 2022

A medium-range ballistic missile target is launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, before being successfully intercepted by Standard Missile-6 missiles fired from the guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, in Kauai, Hawaii, U.S. August 29, 2017 in this handout image. Latonja Martin/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1CBE3A55F0

Putin just tested a new long-range missile. What does that mean?

Caitlin Talmadge

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a ceremony to hand over the office of German Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from the outgoing Anne Spiegel to Elisabeth Paus in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2022. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi

Germany has a special responsibility to stop Putin’s evil

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Pakistan's prime minister-elect Shehbaz Sharif, speaks after winning a parliamentary vote to elect a new prime minister, at the national assembly, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 11, 2022. Pakistan National Assembly/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

President Biden, don’t pass up the opportunity for a reset with Shahbaz Sharif’s Pakistan

Bruce Riedel and Madiha Afzal

Friday, April 22, 2022

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen poses for a group photograph with U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, Bob Menendez, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and other U.S. delegation members, at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan, in this handout picture released April 15, 2022. Taiwan Presidential Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

Focus on interests, not ideology, to strengthen Taiwan’s standing

Monday, April 18, 2022

Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testify before a House Armed Services Committee hearing on "Department of Defense's Budget Requests for FY2023”, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 5, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

As Biden administration’s defense budget and National Defense Strategy emerge, concerns abound

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

FILE PHOTO: An engineer holds a chip while posing for a photo, he is in the middle of testing reactions from different materials and shapes that can have on the chip at the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI) in Hsinchu, Taiwan, February 11, 2022. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo

Ensuring a stronger US-Taiwan tech supply chain partnership

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

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