Order from Chaos

Protesters hold posters at a demonstration against the awarding of the 2019 Nobel literature prize to Peter Handke in Stockholm, Sweden December 10, 2019. TT News Agency/Stina Stjernkvist via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN - RC2JSD9XV83Q

Shadows of the past threaten Europe’s shared future

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Monday, December 30, 2019

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador addresses supporters after receiving the staff of command from indigenous people during the AMLO Fest at Zocalo square in Mexico City, Mexico December 1, 2018. Picture taken December 1, 2018. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

AMLO reverses positive trends in Mexico’s energy industry

Friday, December 20, 2019

An Iraqi demonstrator reacts during ongoing anti-government protests in Najaf, Iraq December 3, 2019. Picture taken December 3, 2019. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani

Is change likely in Iraq?

Daniel L. Byman

Friday, December 20, 2019

Supporters of former President Pervez Musharraf, head of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) political party, chant slogans during a protest demanding a fair trial for him in Karachi March 9, 2014. Musharraf is facing treason charges in a special court in Islamabad. The charges relate to his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007, when he was manoeuvring to extend his rule in the face of growing opposition from the public and the judiciary. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW) - GM1EA391JBG01

Why Pakistan’s former ruler Musharraf was sentenced to death, and what it means

Thursday, December 19, 2019

People walk past containers in Khalifa Port during its opening in Taweelah, Abu Dhabi September 1, 2012. Abu Dhabi launched operations at a multi-billion dollar port facility on Saturday, seeking to diversify its oil-based economy with a project that could intensify competition for the region's shipping traffic with neighbouring emirate Dubai. Abu Dhabi Ports Co (ADPC) said Khalifa Port, built on a man-made island in the Taweelah area, and its adjacent Khalifa Industrial Zone would together be two-thirds the size of Singapore when fully built. REUTERS/Ben Job (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Tags: MARITIME BUSINESS)

What the United Arab Emirates can teach resource-rich countries in Africa

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Security members inspect the site of an overnight air strike, which hit a residential district in Tripoli, Libya October 14, 2019. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny

On the cliff edge of a new stage of the Libyan conflict

Federica Saini Fasanotti

Thursday, December 19, 2019

A combination picture shows leader of Blue and White party, Benny Gantz in Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel September 17, 2019, Avigdor Lieberman, head of Yisrael Beitenu party in Tel Aviv, Israel September 5, 2019 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Jordan Valley, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank September 15, 2019. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun, Nir Elias, Amir Cohen - RC17757CDF80

Timeline: A tumultuous year in Israeli politics

Kevin Huggard and Natan Sachs

Thursday, December 19, 2019

US-ROK

Trump shakedowns are threatening two key US alliances in Asia

Bruce Klingner, Jung H. Pak, and Sue Mi Terry

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

U.S. Marines walk around a base in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, September 3, 2009.REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E593173U01

The lessons of the Afghanistan Papers

Tamara Cofman Wittes and Kevin Huggard

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

European Central Bank (ECB) Banknotes Director Ton Roos shows the new 100 euro banknote in the secretive vaults inside the Bank of Italy in Rome May 21, 2019. Picture taken May 21, 2019 REUTERS/Yara Nardi - RC177763AD50

Why Italy cannot exit the euro

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

An anti-government protester holds a Taiwan national flag as an U.S. flag flutters in the background during a demonstration to celebrate Taiwan's National Day at the Harbour city in Tsim Sha Tsui district, in Hong Kong, China October 10, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha - RC19205F0000

Don’t let partisanship poison US-Taiwan relationship

Monday, December 16, 2019

Syrian refugees pick up cotton from a field in the village of Bukulmez on the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay province, November 3, 2012. Despite the conflict on the Syrian side of the border, cotton harvest is still underway in Turkey's southern border province of Hatay. During early October, the Turkish military launched a retaliatory strike on Syria after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian soil landed in the countryside in Hatay. Some Syrian refugees work at cotton fields together with Turkish villagers in the border region as cottons pickers. Picture taken November 3, 2012. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: AGRICULTURE POLITICS) - GM1E8B509FD01

How to leverage trade concessions to improve refugee self-reliance and host community resilience

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting on the sideline of the 11th edition of the BRICS Summit, in Brasilia, Brazil November 13, 2019. Sputnik/Ramil Sitdikov/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC2LAD9NM7N7

Unpacking the China-Russia ‘alliance’

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Adam Twardowski

Friday, December 13, 2019

Kurdish fighters gesture while carrying their parties' flags in Tel Abyad of Raqqa governorate after they said they took control of the area June 15, 2015. Syrian Kurdish-led forces said they had captured a town at the Turkish border from Islamic State on Monday, driving it away from the frontier in an advance backed by U.S.-led air strikes that has thrust deep into the jihadists' Syria stronghold. The capture of Tel Abyad by the Kurdish YPG and smaller Syrian rebel groups means the Syrian Kurds effectively control some 400 km (250 miles) of the Syrian-Turkish border that has been a conduit for foreign fighters joining Islamic State. Picture taken June 15, 2015. REUTERS/Rodi Said TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000129146

ISIS and the false dawn of Kurdish statehood

Ömer Taşpınar

Friday, December 13, 2019

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is greeted by staff as he arrives back at Downing Street, after meeting Queen Elizabeth and accepting her invitation to form a new government after the Conservative Party was returned to power in the general election with an increased majority, in London, Britain December 13, 2019. Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS - RC2CUD9C5SL9

Brexit endgame: British voters back Boris and Brexit

Friday, December 13, 2019