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Thu, October 6, 2022 | 06:44

How crises could provide new opportunities

Korea is a country where diplomacy is not easy because the Korean Peninsula is placed in a geopolitically sensitive location where continental and maritime powers collide. At this juncture of history, this is truer than ever, since liberation from Japan and the division of the peninsula. North Korea claimed completion of its nuclear weapons program in 2017 and promulgated its...

2022-10-05 13:53

Giorgia Meloni's moment

When a “shock” or “extremist” election result comes with record-low voter turnout and a big yawn from financial markets, it is time to find new descriptors. The decisive victory in Italy's general election by the coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, putting her in line to be the country's first female prime minister and the first to claim an unambiguous ...

2022-10-05 13:27

Confidence in foreign policy starts at home

President Yoon Suk-yeol has been in power for about 150 days at the time of this writing. Koreans had high hopes and expectations that he would resurrect the country's foreign relations that had fallen into disarray under his predecessor, the Moon Jae-in administration. The Moon government went all in to improve ties with North Korea. To the former president, relations with c...

2022-10-04 17:10

Cold War is back

Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine is an attempt to turn back the clock to a time when Russia was a superpower that dominated Eastern Europe. Yet in what amounts to an effort to change the outcome of the Cold War, Putin has badly overestimated his capabilities. Realities on the ground in Ukraine have revealed that a war motivated by starry-eyed nostalgia for czarist rule was a g...

2022-10-04 16:37

Global necessity of American democracy

In his prophetic 1838 Lyceum Address, a generation before the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln predicted that the fall of the United States, if it were ever to occur, would not come from an outside threat, but rather as a result of internal division. “It cannot come from abroad,” he said, “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”

2022-10-03 13:30

Preparing for the long war

A nuclear specter is haunting Europe once again. On Sept. 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a mobilization of some 300,000 reservists and announced that he will use “all available means” to defend Russia, adding, “This is not a bluff.” As one senior European policymaker noted to me, such nuclear brinkmanship is an invitation to dust off old Cold War tomes such as H...

2022-10-02 13:53

Is Putin bluffing about nukes?

Vladimir Putin's desperation was plain to see in the emergency measures he declared last week: immediate mobilization of at least 300,000 more troops, the sudden decision to use fake referendums to turn all the occupied parts of Ukraine into Russian territory, and more explicit threats than usual about nuclear weapons. “This is not a bluff,” Putin warned.

2022-09-29 17:00

What's happening in the Western Balkans?

It has been more than seven months since the war in Ukraine broke out. Europe is suffering from the most tragic conflict since World War II. There has been no tangible progress on diplomacy, and no one knows when the war will end. As Russia countered the sanctions by cutting its supplies of oil and gas to European countries, people in Europe are worrying about stiff rises of ...

2022-09-29 14:30

Key to unlocking Africa's economic potential

Africa is on the cusp of an economic transformation. By 2050, consumer and business spending on the continent is expected to reach roughly $16.1 trillion. The coming boom offers tremendous opportunities for global businesses - especially U.S. companies looking for new markets. But unless African policymakers remove existing barriers to regional trade and investment, the conti...

2022-09-29 14:25

Public opinion surveys challenge the image Arab leaders like to project

Several recent public opinion surveys send a mixed message to autocratic reformers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, which hosts this year's World Cup in less than two months.

2022-09-29 14:19

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