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China's President Xi Jinping (L) shakes hands with Zimbabwe's President (R) Robert Mugabe while South Africa's President Jacob Zuma looks on during a Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Sandton, Johannesburg, December 4, 2015. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTX1X5GJ

Africa in focus

Rising Sino-Japanese competition in Africa

Yun Sun

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

A person holds up a Tunisian flag and shouts slogans during celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of Tunisia's 2011 revolution, in Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis January 14, 2015. REUTERS/Anis Mili

Markaz

Can Tunisia’s new prime minister overcome the trust deficit?

Sarah E. Yerkes

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Turkish special force police officers carry the coffin of police chief Meric Alemdar, who was killed in the thwarted coup, during his funeral in Ankara, Turkey, July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RTSJ24Y

Order from Chaos

Wanted: A dose of sympathy for Turkey

Kemal Kirişci

Thursday, August 4, 2016

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Experts

Jonathan D. Pollack

Interim SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

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Gender

Presence and voice: Women in foreign policy

Tamara Cofman Wittes, Sarah Yerkes, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Brazil

Five rising democracies

Ted Piccone, Fred Dews, and Bill Finan

Friday, February 12, 2016

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Leading UN peacekeeping and “The Fog of Peace”

Jean-Marie Guéhenno and Fred Dews

Friday, June 19, 2015

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KCNA/via Reuters - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a fire drill of ballistic rockets.

North Korea rocket engine test

Jonathan D. Pollack

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Riyadh’s bold gamble

Bruce Riedel

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan enters the General Assembly Hall to speak during the 71st United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan, New York, U.S. September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz - RTSONSA

Turquie: les ambitions d’Erdogan

Kemal Kirişci

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Reconstituting Local Orders

Monday, September 19, 2016

Passengers are seen on a bus near the West Lake, before G20 Summit in Hangzhou.

Can Xi keep geopolitics off the table at the G-20?

Jonathan D. Pollack

Friday, September 2, 2016

People cycle past a billboard for the upcoming G20 summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, July 29, 2016. Picture taken July 29, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song - RTSL4WN

G-20 ushers in collective leadership

Chen Weihua and Cheng Li

Thursday, August 25, 2016

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Reports

Choices: Inside the making of India’s foreign policy

Is the United States losing China to Russia?

Reinvigorating the transatlantic partnership to tackle evolving threats

Interim SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

TÜSİAD Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Director - The Turkey Project

Nonresident Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative