The American exit from Afghanistan has created a power vacuum. The quartet of China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran stands to benefit the most from the US withdrawal. The area to accrue the least benefit is Central Asia, whose five states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), together with Afghanistan, …

Despite an overall decrease in maritime traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic, piracy and armed robbery of ships rose by nearly 20 per cent during the first half of last year, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Monday. Addressing a high-level debate on enhancing security …

Giancarlo Elia Valori “My friend, I only want to talk about happy things!”. With this surprising line, US President Joe Biden (did) not respond to the question of a journalist who asked him in early July about the withdrawal of US and allied forces from Afghanistan – a …

Autumn Gonzales Hear me out: The United States and Russia should pursue mutually beneficial relations in the Arctic. This region is one of the last frontiers yet to have recognized territorial boundaries and operates on vague international norms open to dispute. The US has sovereign territory in the …

Syed Rizvi The misery of Myanmar returned in the form of a nightmare. A country that parted ways with autocracy a decade earlier, welcomed the familiar intruder again a few months ago. The gradual economic progress made by the nascent democracy plummeted and a crisis stands today unlike …

Andrey Kortunov These days, humankind goes through a protracted and painful process of deglobalization. It remains to be seen whether this process was historically predetermined and unavoidable; if this is not the case, one can speculate about who should be held responsible for such a turn of events. …

Paul R. Pillar No matter how much counterterrorist work is done through interagency task forces, information sharing, and some of the other measures the new strategy document mentions, the problem of domestic terrorism will remain as long as this larger underlying problem of political attitudes and loyalties remains. …

Biden officials have signaled acceptance of Trump-negotiated trade agreements and maintained tariffs and export controls targeting China—at least for now. Will this situation last? Activists Worry Anti-Trans Health Care Law Will Go Into Effect   The Biden administration has made major changes to foreign policy, but it has …

Giancarlo Valori In recent years, increasing evidence has shown that the world is warming. Scientists’ research tells us that the cause of global warming in recent decades is most likely to be a large number of greenhouse gases released as a result of industrial production and everyday life …