The mini-summit between U.S. President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was neither a failure nor a success—and such reductionist terms obscure the significance of the meeting...
The June 12 summit meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un raises questions about why the Administration strategy toward seemingly similar threats posed by North Korea and Iran have prompted opposite U.S. policy responses in the two cases...
The ‘America First’ doctrine of the Trump Administration collided with the multilateral, consensus-based approach of the Group of Seven (G7)...
The crisis among the members of the GCC has hit its year mark, with no sign of abating. In June 2017, Saudi Arabia led a group of regional countries in a boycott and blockade of neighboring Qatar...
During a May 31 interview with Russian state media outlet RT, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad repeated his intention to force the U.S. military out of Syria....
Indonesia is far from alone in struggling to adapt counterterrorism laws to fit a democracy. Proposed changes to its laws had been stuck in parliament since just after the January 2016 terrorist attack in Jakarta...
More than three years after an extensive bombing campaign across the country began, inMarch 2018, the war in Yemen was designated by the Secretary General of the United Nations as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis...
The fate of the 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement with Iran (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA) hangs in the balance following the Trump Administration’s May 8 withdrawal from the agreement and re-imposition of U.S. secondary sanctions on Iran’s core economic sectors...
The Trump Administration is ramping up its threats against three of its largest trading blocs: the EU, Mexico and Canada through NAFTA, and China...
Before Poland joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on March 13, 1999—along with fellow former Soviet satellites Hungary and the Czech Republic—Bronislaw Geremek, the Polish Foreign Minister stressed that Poland’s membership in NATO must not be seen as a hostile move towards Russia...
Saudi Arabia has recently arrested a number of high-profile women’s rights activists just weeks before the ban on female drivers in Saudi Arabia is set to end...
The international investigation of the July 17, 2014, downing of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, in which 298 people were killed, has formally found that Russia is responsible for the crime...
A year ago this week in the Philippines, militants from the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), a terrorist group affiliated with the so-called Islamic State...
China is moving to solidify its claims to some of the most important sea lanes in the world. Beijing has installed missile systems and initiated take-offs and landings by its strategic H-6K bombers on islands it created in the South China Sea...
There is renewed concern over a rise in nativist sentiment by the countries comprising the European Union (E.U.), this time in Italy...