Russia Sanctions: 10 Lessons and Questions for What Comes Next
What has the West learned from one year of unprecedented economic sanctions? Read More Here
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Can the West Woo Africa?
In recent years, the West’s lack of engagement with Africa left behind a vacuum that China and Russia eagerly filled. The US and Europe can still repair relations – and, for the first time in a long time, seem determined to try – but only by playing to their strengths. Read More Here
Food Insecurity, Hunger Blame On Bali G20 Menu
It’s already clear summit will fail to agree on joint communique as West insists on condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine. Read More Here
New Atlantis, The Greater Middle Kingdom, And Cold War II
Two realms, New Atlantis and the Greater Middle Kingdom, are relatively evenly matched, in a geopolitical duel that has stayed mostly peaceful, albeit hostile. Read More Here
China Has Lost India
How Beijing’s aggression pushed New Delhi to the West. Read More Here
Putin’s War Speech Contains Outlines Of A New World
Putin’s geo-economic emphasis should be far more disturbing to the West than his rhetoric about using nukes. 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
The West Needs A Strategy To Avoid Exhaustion In Ukraine
The diplomatic challenge is not finding an appropriate intermediary but rather whether the warring parties are open to genuine intermediation and whether the “dispute is ripe,” to use the terminology of mediation. Read More Here
China And Russia Can’t Be Ignored By The West Anymore
The West boasts substantial material advantages over malefactors like China and Russia. But it has squandered its advantages by failing to take the challenge from its antagonists seriously. Read More Here
Cold War 2.0 Is Ushering In Nonalignment 2.0
The leading nations of the developing world not only do not want to have to choose sides in a new cold war but also—much more important—do not feel that they have to. Read More Here
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