By Ellen Chapin
The geopolitical implications for the Winter Olympics will be significant for 2018, and not just because of Nigeria’s trailblazing bobsled team. On January 17, North and South Korea announced that not only would they would march together under one flag at in Pyeongchang, but also, for the first time, the two countries would field a joint women’s ice-hockey team.
Read MoreBy Julia Snitsky
Serhii Plokhy, an eminent historian of Early and Modern Ukraine, starts Lost Kingdom with an anecdote about the opening of one of Moscow’s largest statues, that of Vladimir the Great, unveiled in November 2016 by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Read MoreBy Sir Roderic Lyne
As Putin enters his next six-year stretch (which will be punctuated, mid-term, by Duma elections in 2021), two related questions will arise. First, can Putin – a man who trusts few people — develop a successor from the next generation who is strong enough to control Russia’s baronies, and whom he can trust to protect him, his family, his associates, and their vast wealth? Second, what will Putin seek to achieve in possibly his last term in office?
Read MoreBy Rema Rajeshwari
"The better we know the communities, the better we can protect them.” With these words, Charles Grady, FBI’s Community Outreach Specialist, unveiled the first annual Community, Cops and Culture event on October 28th, 2017 in Albertus Magnus College in New Haven.
Read MoreBy Rebecca TeKolste
Social impact bonds (SIB) promise to promote public sector innovation by drawing private capital to support new ideas and collecting rigorous evidence of what works. Armed with that evidence, governments will then scale up the ideas that work. At least, that’s the theory.
Read MoreBy Ellen Chapin
Long before an indictment is handed down by a grand jury, criminal prosecutors spend hours poring over every angle of the case.
Read MoreBy Ahmer Khan
An estimated 605,000 Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar’s military that the United Nations has called the world’s “fastest developing refugee emergency” and a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
Read MoreBy Rebecca TeKolste
Looking at and beyond American foreign policy on DPRK. How is this moment different? How does this moment involve international actors? And what's the best way to diffuse the situation?
Read MoreAn Interview with Bill Browder
A meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and a Russian-American lobbyist, Rinat Akhmetshin, at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, is the subject of ongoing inquiries by multiple congressional committees and Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Browder, the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, invested in Russia from 1996 to 2005 with over $4 billion in Russian stocks.
Read MoreBy Shravan Bhat
In Jerusalem, a start-up called Energiya Global is designing solar energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Life in the colourful little company is a respite from “the conflict” that looms large over every dinner table conversation, every water-cooler chat, and every falafel line in Israel.
Read MoreBy Aiden Warren and Alek Hillas
That landscape of war and how it is conducted is changing exponentially. For the first time in history, humankind is confronted with the prospect that autonomous robots may join the battlefield.
Read MoreBy Łukasz Antoni Król
In late 2015, the German government made a series of fateful pledges as thousands of asylum seekers were traveling through Europe.
Read MoreAn interview with Retired Four-Star General Stan McChrystal on the Civil-Military Divide
Read MoreBy Luke Johnson
It is perhaps not as commonly known as it should be that the movement for international justice emerged during World War II for crimes committed by the Axis Powers.
Read MoreAn Interview with German Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen on global politics and international coordination.
Read MoreBy Aleydis Nissen
Port Talbot Steelworks is the largest steel plant in the UK, producing nearly all 1 and 2 penny coins in circulation. It is one of the largest private employees in the town, employing around 4,000 workers. The Welsh economy was put at risk last year when the owner of the plant, the Indian multinational Tata Steel, announced that it was no longer profitable, and looked to sell the plant. It is still looking for buyers, but the plant remains threatened.
Read MoreBy Zeinab Khalil
The project of gender mainstreaming has gained much clout in global affairs, and particularly in women in development (WID) networks. This article analyzes gender mainstreaming, which was configured by European feminist policymakers and liberal developmentalist discourses, through the lens of postcolonial theory and feminist political economy.
Read MoreBy Behbod Negahban
Analysts commonly depict Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, as the prime mover behind the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy. This paper will challenge this view, arguing that the IRGC both pressures and enables the Supreme Leader to adopt hard-line policies through its influence on three aspects of the regime.
Read MoreBy Alex Defroand
A week after the election of Donald Trump, Timothy Snyder, a historian of twentieth-century Europe, posted a message on his Facebook page entitled, “Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” Reflecting on the experience of Europeans “who saw democracy yield to fascism,” Snyder urged Americans to heed lessons such as “do not obey in advance” and “be kind to our language.” The post was shared more than 18,000 times.
Read MoreBy Nicki Softness
Historical analysis of Russia’s strategic military choices suggests that the state would prioritize the United States’ information technology (IT) and communications critical infrastructure as key cyber targets. In reaction to such an attack, the United States would have to choose from a spectrum of military and intelligence counter-responses, ranging from lower-level alternatives, to those with high potential for escalation.
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