...icidal,” says Bilahari Kausikan, former Ambassador-at-Large for Singapore.
Geopolitical events rarely emerge out of nowhere, Bilahari Kausikan argued. He warned that focusing too ...
Why Trust Does Not Matter in U.S.-Iran Negotiations
As the U.S. and Iran negotiate the contours of a potential peace deal, Dr. Jon B. Alterman, the Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy at CSIS, explains why trust matters far ...
...ration. Yet that progress remains fragile. Russian hybrid warfare, economic and political pressures, and the spillover effects of the war in neighboring Ukraine have tested Moldova’...
...decisions that challenged long-held assumptions about security, leadership, and political strategy.
In this conversation, she reflects on the role of trust in resilient societies, ...
Assessing the Putin–Xi Summit: A Conversation with Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Evan Medeiros
In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Dr. Evan Medeiros join us to unpack President Putin’s visit to Beijing. They discuss what the timing reveals about China’s d...
Does the Marshall Plan deserve its reputation as a pivotal moment in U.S. foreign policy? “I think it does, but not for the reasons that a lot of people believe,” says Benn Steil, an expert in inte...
Join the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology at Brookings for a discussion between the authors and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabiliti...
"The Commonwealth is a really important forum where the value of cooperation, the value of collaboration, the value of partnership becomes more meaningful."
Hear from the Prime Minister of Sri Lan...
Book Talk | Security Through Co-operation: Attempts at US-Russian Accord After the Cold War
Today, as US-Russia tensions remain at their highest level since the end of the Cold War, it can be difficult to remember that, as the Soviet Union disintegrated and the new Russian Federation emer...
While international cooperation breaks down, collective challenges are not going away. We will have to find new ways to work together, for everyone's sake.
ECDPM at 40: https://ecdpm.org/work/40-y...
As relations with the United States become more unpredictable, the need to build stronger ties with Africa and the wider Global South is becoming urgent.
Europe cannot afford to rely on old assump...
Forums like the WTO and COP are failing to deliver, just as rising crises like climate change become impossible to ignore. We still have to work together – which means finding new, more effective w...
Geopolitical competition means increased pressure to align with a specific power, particularly when fund...
Today, global competition is not only about military strength or economic power. It is also about influence – the stories, culture, education, and ideas that shape how people see the world.
From ...
China’s Grand Bargain | State of Play
CSIS”s Scott Kennedy discussed why China got a “grand bargain” on economic issues out of the Trump-Xi summit and how that might impact stability going forward.
"The Transatlantic Dilemma: How to Pursue Autonomy Without Foreclosing Future Cooperation (https://www.justsecurity.org/139028/transatlantic-relations-autonomy-cooperation/) " by Michael Carpenter&
Some send statements. We send people.
From election observation at dawn to negotiating tables at midnight. From post-conflict rebuilding in the Sahel to democratic support across the Pacific. Real partnership is not a gesture. It is co...
''De macht over de geweldsmiddelen in Rusland is verspreid over veel partijen. Als die er niet met elkaar uitkomen kan dat nog weleens tot geweld leiden. Dat maakt de opvolging van Poetin onbereken...