World Focused On Ukraine But What’s Up With Other Flash Points?
While war rages in Ukraine, the world’s other crises deserve attention. Let us Look at Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea and elsewhere. Read More Here
Author: lookingbeyondborders
War And Adjustment: Military Campaigns And National Strategy
The effects of military campaigns on a nation’s grand strategy seem an obvious topic of importance for scholars. How can such moments of violence not mark dramatic moments of reflection on the purpose and direction of national strategy? Read More Here
The China Narrative In Australia’s Elections
How best to manage ties with China ought to be a central election issue, but the campaign narratives are focused on posturing rather than policy. Read More Here
The Dangerous New Anti-Globalization Consensus
The long-time critics of globalization who warned us that it would end badly are having a told-you-so moment… It took a protectionist U.S. president, a global pandemic, and a new European war to prove them right. Read More Here
The End Of Nordic Neutrality
Neutrality backed by informal cooperation with NATO long served Sweden’s security interests well. But Russia’s war against Ukraine has upended old assumptions, and the resulting shift in Swedish public opinion, together with pro-NATO developments in neighbouring Finland, points to an imminent application to join the Alliance. Read More Here
North Korea’s Nuclear Family
North Korea’s nuclear program has been a thorn in the side of five American presidents, sometimes approaching crisis levels, sometimes receding to secondary importance. Read More Here
Xi Jinping Is Fighting A War For China’s History
Also, like Putin, Xi had seen for himself what happened when a communist regime lost power. Xi was a mid-ranking party official in the southeastern province of Fujian when he watched the Soviet Union collapse. Read More Here
Sri Lanka Crisis Will Last At Least Two More Years
Sri Lanka will have to endure its unprecedented economic hardships for at least two more years, the country’s finance minister said while warning of an imminent cash crunch. Read More Here
America Needs Strategic Empathy In A Multipolar World
The reality is that middle powers have independent security, economic, and regional interests (among others) that cut against America’s Manichean worldview and abstract objectives. Read More Here
The West’s Economic War Against Russia Is Imperilling the World
The economic war is most unlikely to affect the outcome of the Ukraine War, but it does seem likely to produce outcomes that will prejudice energy security and the climate agenda, while falling hardest on the world’s poor. Read More Here
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