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19 April 2021

Rethinking Chinese School of IR from the Perspective of Strategic Essentialism

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Source Code Yih-Jye Hwang , Apr 13 2021  Download PDF This article is based on insights from ‘ Reappraising the Chinese School of Internatio...

The Impact of the UNSC on the EU’s Combatting Terrorist Financing Sanctions Regime

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Source Code Sophie Domres , Apr 12 2021 Download PDF This content was originally written for an undergraduate or Master's program. It is...

The EU-Turkey Refugee Deal: Protection For Whom?

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Source Code Alexandra Pinto Damas , Apr 12 2021  Download PDF In March 2016, the European Union (EU) and Turkey announced they would coopera...

New Sanctions Reveal the Dangerous Low of U.S.-Russian Relations

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Source C0de by  Mark Episkopos Washington and Moscow continue to engage in a risky tit-for-tat with no offramp from potential escalation in ...

Iran names suspect in Natanz nuclear plant attack

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Source Code Iran has named a suspect in the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility that damaged centrifuges there, saying he had fled the co...

A Different Kind of Army: The Militarization of China’s Internet Trolls

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By: Ryan Fedasiuk Source Link Introduction The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) believes it is engaged in a global struggle for China’s “image ...

From United Kingdom to Untied Kingdom

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Source Link Apr 15th 2021 The bonds that hold England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland together are weaker than at any time in living m...

U.S. CAATSA Sanctions and India: Waivers and Geopolitical Considerations

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Jeff Smith Source Link The Biden Administration will soon have to decide whether to impose sanctions on India under the Countering America’s...

The Taliban Are Ready to Exploit America’s Exit

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By Carter Malkasian Source Link In September of last year, peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government finally opened in Doha,...

Green Batteries: a Competitive Advantage for Europe’s Electric Vehicle Value Chain?

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Études de l'Ifri Source Link Aligning its climate and industrial policies, the European Union (UE) is introducing sustainability require...

Cyber Retaliation Needs to Be Decisive, Swift, and Meaningful

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Emilio Iasiello , 17Apr2021 Source Link Editor’s note: On 15 April the Biden Administration formally attributed the Solar Winds attacks to ...

The Iran Threat Network (ITN)

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by Ariane M. Tabatabai, Jeffrey Martini, Becca Wasser Source Link What are Iran's political and military objectives? How does the ITN fa...

Batteries require battery minerals, should Europe ramp up its efforts to secure them?

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Source Link In order to meet the targets it has committed itself to under the Paris Climate Agreement, the EU aims to produce 10 million ele...

Europe in the Geopolitics of Technology: Connecting the Internal and External Dimensions

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Source Link To respond to growing global competition, the EU has made notable progress on the internal dimension of technology policy over t...

IN RUSSIA'S HAND Nagorno-Karabakh after the ceasefire agreement

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András Rácz Source Link Nearly five months have passed since the 9 November 2020 ceasefire that ended the second Nagorno-Karabakh war. The c...

Cooperation, Competition, and Compartmentalization: Russian-Turkish Relations and Their Implications for the West

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Source Link The relationship between the Russian Federation and Republic of Turkey is one of the most important bilateral relationships in E...

The future of security in space: A thirty-year US strategy

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Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series by Clementine G. Starling, Mark J. Massa, Lt Col Christopher P. Mulder, and Julia T. Siegel Source Li...

The digital Yuan, digital Euro, and the Diem: Key issues for public debate

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by Hung Tran Source Link As momentum grows globally for the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), it will be important to ...

The Intelligence Community’s Deadly Bias Toward Classified Sources

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BY CORTNEY WEINBAUM Source Link For years, government officials , commissions , and think tanks have warned that the U.S. intelligence com...

Data Is Power Washington Needs to Craft New Rules for the Digital Age

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By Matthew Slaughter and David McCormick Source Link Data is now at the center of global trade. For decades, international trade in goods an...

Japan Is the New Leader of Asia’s Liberal Order

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By Chang Che Source Link Over the last decade, and especially over the last four years, Japan has emerged as a quiet leader in the Indo-Paci...
18 April 2021

How Will Digital Currencies Change Wallets?

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RAJESH BANSAL , SOMYA SINGH Source Link Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are essentially the digital version of cash. Like cash, the...

The Unlikelihood of a War With China and Russia

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By George Friedman Source Link Much has been made of China’s seemingly unending potential to invade Taiwan – nearly as much as Russia’s buil...

The Taliban Are Ready to Exploit America’s Exit What a U.S. Withdrawal Means for Afghanistan

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By Carter Malkasian Source Link In September of last year, peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government finally opened in Doha,...

Yes, the Atrocities in Xinjiang Constitute a Genocide

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BY PETER MATTIS Source Link   Uyghurs demonstrate for news of their relatives and to express concern over an extradition treaty’s ratificati...

Beyond U.S.-China Technology Competition

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Source Link April 15, 2021, By Akinori Kahata As explored in previous blog posts, competition over the production and sale of advanced techn...

Alibaba fine, Huawei and Ericsson, and public opinion on military

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https://www.neican.org/p/briefing-alibaba-fine-huawei-and 12 April 2021,  Yun Jiang and Adam Ni Chinese authorities hit Alibaba with a ¥18....

Joe Biden calls time on America’s longest-ever war

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https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/04/13/joe-biden-calls-time-on-americas-longest-ever-war America leaves behind a weak state and strugglin...

American withdrawal need not return Afghanistan to the Taliban

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https://thehill.com/opinion/international/548378-american-withdrawal-need-not-return-afghanistan-to-the-taliban The Taliban’s decision to b...

Japan Faces Growing Pressure to Rethink Releasing Fukushima’s Wastewater into Ocean

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Source Link By  Thisanka Siripala April 16, 2021 China and South Korea have reacted strongly to the Japanese government’s decision to releas...

Biden Is Done with Afghanistan. Is Afghanistan Done With America?

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https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/14/afghanistan-biden-troop-withdrawal-forever-wars/ Biden Is Done with Afghanistan. Is Afghanistan Done Wi...

The Most Urgent North Korean Nuclear Threat Isn’t What You Think

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https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/04/15/most-urgent-north-korean-nuclear-threat-isn-t-what-you-think-pub-84335?utm_source=ctw&utm_mediu...

Should NATO Admit Ukraine?

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https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/84332?utm_source=ctw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=buttonlink&mkt_tok=MDk1LVBQVi04MTMA...

U.S. Mounts All-Out Effort to Save Iran Nuclear Deal

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BY MICHAEL HIRSH  Source Link   U.S. President Joe Biden is intent on restoring the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, and with talks resumin...

Biden’s Afghanistan Exit Will Strengthen, Not Weaken, U.S. National Security

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by William Ruger Source Link Already proponents of the war in Afghanistan are declaring that President Joe Biden’s promise to exit fully by...