The Balkans have seen an uptick in Russian spy activity. Will this damage relations with Moscow? by Dimitar Bechev When in March 2018 news broke that former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia may have been poisoned with a nerve agent called Novichok by ...
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Democracy Isn’t the Only System Under Stress By Thomas Carothers Ramzi Boudina / Reuters Gloom about the state of democracy pervades Washington and other Western capitals. Restless, insecure, and alienated citizens in many democracies are challenging their leaders on the streets ...
Europe, Iran and the United States: A Roadmap for 2020 GLOBAL SECURITY REPORT Sir Adam Thomson & Sahil Shah January 2020 SIR ADAM THOMSON & SAHIL SHAH 1 Europe, Iran and the United States: A Roadmap for 2020 Introduction It is becoming increasingly clear that Europeans ho ...
Inflection Points by Frederick Kempe The World Health Organization has made it official: Coronavirus is the first “global health emergency” of our new era of major power competition. Thus, its ripples won’t stop at global markets but will also reach geopolitics. It’s already ...
New Atlanticist by Simon Handler Beginning January 2020, the Cyber Statecraft Initiative will feature a monthly CSI5x5, in which five featured experts answer five questions on a common theme, trend, or current event in the world of cyber. Interested in the CSI5x5 and want to see a particular to ...
Inflection Points by Frederick Kempe Kishore Mahbubani, the Singaporean author and intellectual, greets me warmly in a conference lounge here and hands me a card promoting the March release of his new book, bearing that provocative question as its title. The cover blurb announces that he will ex ...
By JOSEPH KRAUSS JERUSALEM (AP) — The Mideast peace plan announced by President Donald Trump on Tuesday supports the Israeli position on nearly all of the most contentious issues in the decades-old conflict. Where previous presidents tried to cajole Israel and the Palestinians into ...
Leo Kelion Technology Editor BBC The UK has decided to let Huawei continue to be used in its 5G networks but with restrictions, despite pressure from the US to block the firm. The Chinese firm will be banned from supplying kit to "sensitive parts" of the network, known as the core. In addition ...
President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Monday to discuss the reveal of the Middle East peace plan which is scheduled to be announced at noon Tuesday. In a statement sent to The Foreign Desk from the White House, President Trump emphasized that t ...
Inflection Points by Frederick Kempe A century ago this month, the Treaty of Versailles went into effect, bringing World War I to an end. Yet the dreams that paved its way were already evaporating. Among them was U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s vision of “a world made safe for democracy ...
In the same week that the Trump administration signed a ceasefire agreement in its trade war with China, it intensified its major campaign against Huawei 5G, explains Greg Austin. Can the United States win this so-called ‘tech war’? When Donald Trump solemnly announced the rea ...
BY DAVID WHINERAY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill TWEET SHARE MORE The United States’s strike on an Iranian commander opened another rift with its European allies. Transatlantic relations are at a low. From Iran to tr ...
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