A Chinese Drought Would Be A Global Catastrophe
A water catastrophe in China will not only hit domestic agriculture and hydropower production but would also create global shortages of food, goods and industrial materials. Read More Here
What Does Muqtada al-Sadr Really Want In Iraq?
Like Khomeini and Khamenei, Sadr seeks to impose that which he cannot gain by consensus. Read More Here
A Year After The Fall Of Kabul
For the Biden Administration, supporting the Afghan people without empowering the Taliban is the foreign-policy case study from hell. Read More Here
Is This The End For Pakistan’s Sharif Political Dynasty?
The Sharif family’s political fate hinges on whether they can overcome a split between backers of brothers Nawaz and Shehbaz – and convince supporters their alignment with the military is not a betrayal. Read More here
China Strikes Back: Great Power Rivalry Has Come To The Middle East
The Middle East’s reemergence as an arena of great power competition between the United States and China is mainly reflected in the technological innovation field. Read More Here
Russia Is Fighting Three Undeclared Wars
Putin is actually waging three wars, each of them undeclared. He simultaneously seeks to control Ukraine, to dominate Russia’s region, and to hasten the fall of the West. And is there an internal struggle on the horizon? Read More Here
France, Egypt, And India Can Help To Spread Security From Mediterranean To The Indo-Pacific
Trilateral engagement between Paris, Cairo, and New Delhi would serve as a geostrategic corridor that connects the Mediterranean to the Indo-Pacific and allows the three countries to work together when interests align without being bound in a formal structure. Read More Here
Economics In The New Age Of National Security
The growing geopolitical and economic split between the United States and China should prompt a paradigm shift in economic thinking. In particular, economists will need to reconsider their approach to topics such as comparative advantage, market integration, and how to promote convergence. Read More Here
The Disturbing Return Of The Fifth Column
Although the term “fifth column” wasn’t coined until the 1930s, the practice of identifying and targeting such threats is a far older phenomenon and arguably predates the nation-state. Read More Here
The United States Is Fighting Inflation With History
Jackson Hole is a meeting of central bankers and economists. But in making his stand, Powell invoked neither economic theory nor econometrics. Instead, he summoned history. Read More Here
