Opinion Archives - Page 3 of 10 - Deutsches Asienforschungszentrum

Posted inin Defense
Europe

Commoditized Weapons in Ukraine: Are the Allies Getting the Procurement Right?

Posted byby Marc Dubois
August 27, 2023
0 Comments
7 min

Ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian government has scrambled for the weaponry its military desperately needs. Despite bold announcements...

Posted inin Featured
Internal Security

Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in Syria to overthrow Assad regime

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
August 26, 2023
0 Comments
2 min

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians demonstrated, in various Syrian governorates, to demand the overthrow of the Assad regime, and to hold the criminal Bashar...

Posted inin Asia
Counter Terrorism

Resurgence and Realities: Afghanistan’s Shifting Terror Threats

Posted byby Michael Becker
August 25, 2023
0 Comments
4 min

As the world observed the second anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan on August 15th, attention has shifted to the changing landscape of...

Posted inin Asia
Featured

The State of Democracy in Southeast Asia Is Bad and Getting Worse

Posted byby Michael Becker
August 24, 2023
0 Comments
5 min

Just when it seemed that the state of democracy in Southeast Asia, already in dire shape, could not get worse, it did. In the...

Posted inin Opinion
Politics

Don’t Recognize the Taliban Government

Posted byby Marie Corrie
August 18, 2023
0 Comments
7 min

Two years after taking Kabul, the Taliban are consolidating their control of Afghanistan even as they remain mostly shunned by the rest of the...

Posted inin Africa
Internal Security

Military coups in Africa: here’s what determines a return to civilian rule

Posted byby Devlin McAllister
August 12, 2023
0 Comments
4 min

Slightly more than two years after Niger’s first peaceful handover of power from one civilian president to another, the military seized power in July...

Posted inin Europe
Opinion

Analyzing War Fatigue in Ukraine

Posted byby Marc Dubois
August 9, 2023
0 Comments
3 min

Many Ukrainians, both at the front and rear, have gradually realized there will be no quick victory. The war may drag on indefinitely and...

Posted inin Counter Terrorism
Featured

Civil Society Engagement with the United Nations on Counterterrorism–A Perilous, Uphill Challenge

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
August 9, 2023
0 Comments
8 min

Seventeen years after the adoption of the UN General Assembly’s Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (GCTS), the United Nations negotiated the eighth biennial GCTS review, which...

Posted inin Defense
Opinion

Fair and Unfair Play: Regulating Means and Methods of Warfare

Posted byby Devlin McAllister
August 1, 2023
0 Comments
6 min

Do we have any detailed and documented rules of military engagement today? Yes. Are these rules regularly followed? Mostly not. Does this mean that...

Posted inin Europe
Opinion

Glimpses of an endgame in Ukraine

Posted byby Devlin McAllister
July 26, 2023
0 Comments
5 min

The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors. The Russian objectives of “demilitarisation” and “de-Nazification” of...