By Tae Eom
On December 18, 2018, at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square, I encountered a drawing of a young Korean man whose eyes conveyed that he had many stories to tell. I realized it was part of a temporary memorial arranged for the young man, Kim Yong-gyun. I took out my phone to search for his name on the Internet.
Read MoreBy Charles Smythe
A growing consensus among U.S. military leadership and policy makers is that offensive strategies have an advantage over defensive strategies in cyberspace. However, this consensus is based on a series of misperceptions.
Read MoreBy Aaron Baum
This paper recommends that ASEAN countries create investment screening mechanisms close to OECD recommendations and that ASEAN itself encourages working- and Ministerial-level engagement on investment screening via a new Sectoral Ministerial Body that will track regional investment trends.
Read MoreBy Ryan Nabil
In the long term, as the gap between Russian and Chinese economic and military capabilities widens, the basis of Russia-China relations—trade, security cooperation, and stability in the post-Soviet space—are likely to weaken. Moscow’s management of the changing Russia-China relations will shape Russia’s future relations with China and the West.
Read MoreBy Tony Formica
Extremist groups have been on the rise for the past four years, and an uptick in extremist-related violence has followed in their wake.2 Prominent social media platforms have been tacitly implicated in these attacks, facilitating extremist recruitment, disseminating propaganda, and spreading disinformation.
Read MoreBy Karim Khalifeh and Karam Alhamad
One of Syria’s most vulnerable populations, its political detainees, now faces an impending humanitarian disaster amidst the global coronavirus outbreak. Few have voiced concern over Syria’s political prisoners, who may be left to die in Assad’s detention centers.
Read MoreBy Rana Mitter
As China emerges out of its transitional decades, where does the country stand now? Historian Rana Mitter reviews Frank Langfitt’s The Shanghai Free Taxi and Jonathan Chatwin’s Long Peace Street, two books giving colorful accounts of China’s shifting images of everyday life, view toward history, and relationship with the world.
Read MoreBy Matt Trevithick
Staffan de Mistura, an Italian-Swedish diplomat with a 40-year career in the United Nations, last served as the UN Special Envoy for Syria from 2014 to 2018. He sat down with Executive Editor Matt Trevithick of the Yale Journal of International Affairs shortly after President Trump’s announcement of a withdrawal of US forces from Syria in October 2019.
Read MoreBy Julian TszKin Chan and Weifeng Zhong
Can we predict governments’ policy moves through changes in propaganda messages? Julian Chan and Weifeng Zhong take a machine learning approach to predict China’s stance on key political issues.
Read MoreBy Matthew J. Klem
Rick Steves, celebrated travel author and host of Rick Steves Europe, explains the way travel can shape our attitudes toward global affairs, and how travel in Europe shaped his own reflections on American politics.
Read MoreBy Pat Wiedorn
In recent decades, China has worked to develop the capability to exercise full military control over its near seas. During an invasion of Taiwan, this capability would be used to deny enemies the ability to deploy troops or ships to the area. To counter this threat the United States needs a larger number of smaller, mission-focused submarines.
Read MoreBy Eliot Pence
Despite some economic progress, Colombia still faces critical challenges in managing its borders and countering illicit drug production. The U.S. should consider leveraging the next generation technologies to promote an effective partnership with Colombia.
Read MoreBy Ryan Nabil
The UK's potential trade agreement with the US should not hinder Britain’s trade with other major economies like China.
Read MoreBy Joe Kyle
As the preeminent institution for maintaining European security, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) must address the growing sphere of Russian influence in non-NATO member states.
Read MoreBy Faisal Magray
Freelance journalist Faisal Magray sheds light onto the personal stories of people living in one of Kashmir’s remaining leper colonies.
Read MoreBy Erik Woodward
The low-lying atoll nations of the South Pacific Ocean are sinking. An interpretation of international law suggests that a deterritorialized state could be a legally permissible international entity.
Read MoreBy Łukasz Antoni Król
Establishing norms could be a much more effective strategy than arms control agreements in limiting the spread of digital weapons.
Read MoreBy Jason Lapadula
“We’ve gone into an experimental context on the most vulnerable people in the world, and put them in a commodification posture where we’re monetizing and trading their data.”
Read MoreBy Meg King & Jake Rosen
In a process rife with uncertainty and at times high with tension, the United States, Canada, and Mexico managed to reach terms for a broad new trade arrangement to replace NAFTA.
Read MoreBy Rema Rajeshwari
I assumed the post of District Police Chief of Jogulamba Gadwal, a rural district in the central Indian state of Telangana, in the summer of 2018.
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