International Affairs

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

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

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