Order from Chaos

View of pipe systems and shut-off devices at the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline. Originally, the pipeline for natural gas from Russia was to go into operation at the end of 2019.

If Russia invades, sanction its oil and gas

Michael E. O’Hanlon and David G. Victor · Wednesday, January 26, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks virtually with Chinese leader Xi Jinping from the White House in Washington, U.S. November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Biden’s China policy needs to be more than just Trump lite

Jeffrey A. Bader

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, meets with Syria's Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad in Damascus, Syria September 11, 2021. REUTERS/Firas Makdesi

Zombie diplomacy and the fate of Syria’s constitutional committee

Steven Heydemann and Karam Shaar

Monday, January 24, 2022

Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez presented her report on security for the month of December 2021 to Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at National Palace. On January 20, 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Luis Barron/ Eyepix Group)

Crime and anti-crime policies in Mexico in 2022: A bleak outlook

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, January 24, 2022

Students gather to protest against what they say is government interference in academia despite President Tayyip Erdogan's ousting of Melih Bulu, a rector whose appointment in January triggered months of demonstrations, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 16, 2021. The banner reads "All the government-appointed trustees at municipalities and universities will go". REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Resistance to Erdoğan’s encroachment at Turkey’s top university, one year on

Kemal Kirişci, Mine Eder, and Mert Arslanalp

Friday, January 21, 2022

An Iranian woman wearing a protective face mask uses her smartphone while sitting at a bus-stand near a crossroad in downtown Tehran on May 30, 2021. Iranians will vote to elect the new President on June 18 amid the new corona virus outbreak in Iran. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

How Middle Eastern conflicts are playing out on social media

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers his policy speech during a ordinary parliamentary session at the National Diet in Tokyo, Japan on January, 17, 2022. (Photo Motoo Naka/AFLO) No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

Japan-Taiwan relations: A look back on 2021 and look ahead to 2022

Adam P. Liff and Ryan Hass

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock attend a joint news conference following their meeting in Moscow, Russia January 18, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Pool

Energy trilemma causes a headache for Germany’s new leaders

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Snow falls in central Tokyo, Japan on January 6, 2022. (Photo by Shingo Tosha/AFLO) No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

In vying for economic preeminence in Asia, openness is essential

Friday, January 14, 2022

A poster depicting Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is pictured near damaged buildings, ahead of the May 26 presidential election, in Homs, Syria May 23, 2021. Picture taken May 23, 2021. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Assad’s normalization and the politics of erasure in Syria

Steven Heydemann

Thursday, January 13, 2022

A general a view of National Museum of Qatar, in Doha, Qatar March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Ibraheem al Omari

21st century Bedouin politics: Considering the modern power of tribes in the Arabian Peninsula

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov attend security talks at the United States Mission in Geneva, Switzerland January 10, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Around the halls: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the European security order

Pavel K. Baev, Jessica Brandt, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Samantha Gross, Daniel S. Hamilton, Marvin Kalb, Patricia M. Kim, Kemal Kirişci, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Steven Pifer, Melanie W. Sisson, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Angela Stent

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

On January 6, 2021, Pro-Trump supporters and far-right forces flooded Washington DC to protest Trump's election loss. Hundreds breached the U.S. Capitol Building, aproximately 13 were arrested and one protester was killed. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Sipa USA)

Assessing the right-wing terror threat in the United States a year after the January 6 insurrection

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

A general view of Taipei 101, following Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s speech for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference to call on the United Nations to include Taiwan for tackling climate change issues. The US and some European countries have been establishing better ties with Taiwan, including showing their support of Taiwan’s participation in the United Nations while the Taiwan has been facing intensifying military and political threats from China. (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Steadying Taiwan for a storm on the horizon

Monday, December 27, 2021

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 21, 2021: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and Russia's First Deputy Defense Minister Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, attend an extended meeting of the Russian Defense Ministry Board at the National Defense Control Center. Sergei Guneyev/POOL/TASS.No use Russia.

Germany holds the key to deterring Russian moves against Ukraine

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

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