Advocating for Kyiv’s membership doesn’t make sense without addressing Article V guarantee credibility.
Sensing the changing mood, many left-wing parties and politicians in Moldova have begun criticizing the war and reversing their pro-Russian positions.
After Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian elites acted as if the war had not really changed anything on the home front.
This report lays out a case and provides a menu of policy options for how the Quad can pursue a collective approach to Indo-Pacific maritime security, with a particular focus on regional deterrence and defence.
The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has proposed an ambitious agenda to reform domestic cyber governance, but it is unlikely to depart significantly from Brazil’s established positions on global cyber diplomacy.
It is becoming increasingly difficult for the Kremlin to sweep unwelcome developments under the carpet. The war has begun to change Russia, and profound internal shifts are likely underway—in Putin’s regime, in the elites’ perception of Putin, and in the public’s attitude toward the war.
The aspiration of former Ukrainian politicians working in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to be treated as equals by the Kremlin has not been realized, and the unpredictability of the ongoing war makes them increasingly vulnerable.
U.S.-China relations appear to be set on a trajectory towards long-term competition and rivalry.
Three criteria can help democratic governments assess whether an influence operation is acceptable or unacceptable.
Despite a story of overall progress, women’s rights advocates around the world are sounding the alarm.
This model of a hybrid totalitarian state and semi-mobilized society appears to be entirely acceptable to the average Russian. Certainly it’s possible to adapt to this model, including economically: a gradual decline in people’s living standards has been the norm ever since the economy started stagnating back in 2014.
The BJP’s defeat in the recent Karnataka assembly elections has made the north/south divide in India more obvious in political terms. The party holding office at the Centre does not govern any state below the Vindhyas.
The mood in Cairo seems to presently be that “Egypt is too big to fail”—and that outside actors will intervene to ensure that Egypt does not default on its debt and go into economic freefall.
As the 2024 election cycle kicks into high gear, a new Carnegie survey examines how important foreign policy topics are to African American voters.
Imagining history as a civilizational competition is convenient for the current Russian leadership because it means they can perceive themselves as part of a young civilization and, as such, they don’t need to calculate risks, invest in the economy, or conduct a reasonable foreign policy. Youth is forgiven everything, and Russia will inevitably, therefore, be a world leader.
Saudi Arabia’s cooperation with China on technological and scientific innovation is on the rise—and it is Saudi priorities that are steering the relationship.
It is in both countries’ interests to cooperate, since each can provide the other with something in short supply: Russia needs artillery shells for its war, while North Korea needs humanitarian aid.
But Russian aggression was the impetus for the new membership bids.
The new reality is that Hamas has a heavy presence in Lebanon since the main political leadership is now in the country, which will have implications on the ground in Lebanon.
American democracy is in greater peril at the present moment than in most other developed democracies. What happens here matters a great deal to global democracy, given America’s size and power, and the model that it presents to the rest of the world.