The meeting that took place over the weekend between President Trump and President Xi, set against the backdrop of the G-20 in Argentina, presented both leaders with an opportunity to reframe deteriorating Sino-U.S. relations along a more positive trajectory...
Like most intrastate conflicts, the Syrian civil war is complex. This includes not only geopolitical complexities, compounded by the involvement of powerful nation states (Russia, the U.S., Iran, Turkey), but also challenges associated with properly monitoring the disbursement of development aid...
There is growing opposition to the agreement between the EU and the UK over the latter’s withdrawal from the union on March 29, 2019...
In concert with its effort to counter Iranian regional influence, the Trump administration has ramped up actions against Tehran’s main proxy force, Lebanese Hezbollah. In a November 13, 2018 speech, the State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Ambassador Nathan Sales, stated that ‘Hezbollah’s ambitions and global...
It may never be known why Russia chose this specific time to escalate the proxy war it has waged against Ukraine since 2014 into a direct naval clash that threatens to accelerate a low-intensity conflict into a more comprehensive conflagration...
Terrorism trends in Central Asia suggest that the region is shifting from primarily an exporter of foreign fighters to one where domestic and regional terrorist attacks may become increasingly more common...
Hardened borders have enjoyed somewhat of a resurgence over the last several years, as a general trend of anti-globalization and anti-globalism sweep through the West, ushering in a tide of fervent nationalism...
The U.S. is once again drifting away from long-time allies, this time by choosing not side with the European Union in demanding a full and transparent explanation by the Saudi government for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October...
The ‘global war on terror,’ or ‘GWOT,’ and the military-centric strategy underpinning it, endures even as the term itself is no longer common parlance from the Beltway to Baghdad. Since September 11, 2001, one of the strategic priorities of U.S. domestic and foreign policy has...
As the scope of Russia’s use of social media platforms to sow disinformation and spread malign influence became apparent after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, Facebook belatedly investigated itself and, rather unsurprisingly, discovered serious shortcomings...
Just last weekend, world leaders gathered in Paris to mark the solemn one hundred-year anniversary of the end of WWI...
Formed in 2002, Mohammad Yusuf established Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Borno state. Initially, the group focused on improving economic and social conditions in the north of the country...
The ongoing suffering in Yemen is spiking again as fighters for the Saudi-UAE coalition battle Houthi rebels in the strategic port city of Hodeida...
On November 07, there was another mass shooting in the United States. A man identified as Ian David Long, a former Marine, murdered 11 people inside a bar in Thousand Oaks, California. This is the fourth such shooting in which ten or more people were...
Even though the fight against the so-called Islamic State continues in isolated corners of Iraq and Syria, the group now holds less than 1 percent of the land it had at its peak a few years ago...