Oscars Seeking to Eschew Politics, Partisanship in Favor of Old-school Escapism
America may be deeply divided, but politics and the culture wars will not be center stage at this year’s Oscars if the organizers have...
Trump in growing legal and political peril ahead of 2024
The Manhattan district attorney has invited former president Donald Trump to testify next week before a grand jury, potentially signaling a significant development in...
How are China’s neighbors viewing Beijing’s military plans?
At the opening of China’s rubber-stamp parliament on Sunday, outgoing Premier Li Keqiang announced an increase to the nation’s military spending, pointing to “escalating”...
Why European Defense Still Depends on America
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it seemed like a transformational moment for European security. Surely now Europe would finally get its act...
Relevance of green politics in the contemporary world
Green theory is a critical theory in International relations which is gaining its relevance very much in recent times as the world couldn’t help...
Blinken warns Central Asia of dangers from war in Ukraine
The Biden administration on Tuesday pledged to support the independence of the five Central Asian nations, in a not-so-subtle warning to the former Soviet...
Under new US weapons sale rules, ‘security sector governance’ is king
WASHINGTON — Countries must follow required security practices and procedures if they want to buy US made weapons under the Biden administration’s updated Conventional...
New Era of Counterintelligence Must Shift Focus to the Gray Zone
Strategic competition in the current global context is a post-counterterrorism-era paradigm shift that demands more aggressive offensive U.S. counterintelligence activities. Rethinking counterintelligence and counterterrorism for great...
The Persistence of Great-Power Politics
At the Munich Security Conference in February 2022, mere days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s newly minted foreign minister, argued...
International ordering and great power competition: Lessons from Central Asia
Overseas U.S basing agreements and their under-lying bargains are embedded in a broader ecology of “international orders” and emerging counterorders. In the initial post-Cold...