Afghanistan’s Quest for Water Worries Central Asian Neighbors
Recently, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported the progress of Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Irrigation Canal, $670 million, 285-kilometer canal to irrigate 550,000 hectares of land...
Iranian drones over Kyiv are an omen of new global threats
The world is scrambling to respond to manifestations of increasingly symbiotic Russian-Iranian coordination that flout the full spectrum of international norms and fundamentally undermine...
The Rise of the Gangsta Militariat
The latest crop of putschists across West Africa shares a number of important features with its professional predecessors. Prime among these is a delusional...
Terrorist Groups are Again Thriving in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
Last month, the U.S. Central Command said it conducted 20 joint operations in Iraq and 11 in Syria, killing five Islamic State operatives and capturing 30...
After Jokowi: What Indonesia’s next president could face in foreign affairs
Myanmar. The South China Sea. AUKUS. These are but three of a battery of hot button foreign policy issues Indonesia’s next president will have...
How Ukraine Can Win a Long War
The war in Ukraine has just passed the 18-month mark. The country’s people, having fought and won three major offensive campaigns in 2022, are...
Treason in Gabon, Political Crisis in a Number of African Countries
LIBREVILLE — The democratic government of Gabon was overthrown in a coup led by the police and military. The coup plotters said they wanted...
More Things Change: Elections and Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia
Is Southeast Asia really becoming more authoritarian? And what are the implications for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)? Recent developments in Thailand...
EU’s expanding engagement in Central Asia to counter Russia and China
The geopolitical and security crisis has forced the CARs and the EU to rethink their foreign policy regarding the region’s sovereignty, safety, and stability...
‘Epidemic’ of Coups in West Africa Spark Rethink in Washington
Niger was, in many ways, one of the West’s last and best hopes for a flailing, decades-long counterterrorism campaign in the Sahel region of...