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Daily Memo: On European Relations With Central Asia

Kazakhstan and the EU. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with European Council President Antonio Costa during the latter’s first official visit to Kazakhstan. Tokayev said both sides were ready to expand bilateral cooperation and praised the results of the EU-Kazakhstan Cooperation Council meeting held earlier this week in Brussels. According to Tokayev, bilateral trade turnover […]

Kazakhstan’s Strategic Breakout: The Abraham Accords as a Route to the High Seas

Kazakhstan’s decision last month to join the Abraham Accords carries strategic implications that extend far beyond efforts to wind down the eight-decade conflict between...

Daily Memo: Ukraine’s European Backers Get Weak in the Knees

Paying for it. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said it would be “premature” for Rome to participate in NATO’s program to buy U.S. weapons...

For Israel and Saudi Arabia, Normalization Is No Longer a Priority

During a meeting at the White House on Nov. 18, U.S. President Donald Trump pressured Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to join the...

Daily Memo: Productive and Unproductive Meetings

U.S.-Russia talks. Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov and the presidential special envoy on foreign investment and economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, held talks with U.S....

A New Jihadist Hub in Africa

Nigeria and Mali are at the center of what is fast becoming the world’s most active theater of jihadism. Militant groups are exploiting the...

Daily Memo: Russian Presence on the Ukraine Border and the Red Sea

Security zone. Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Russian military’s North Forces Group to create a security zone along the border with Ukraine during...

The Peculiar Economics of the Black Sea Borderland

In moments of geopolitical transition, borderlands are often the harbingers of new economic orders. They are areas of inherent tension because they mark the...

Daily Memo: Ukraine Talks, Pakistan on Gaza Security

Ukraine's take. U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators held talks in Miami, Florida, on Friday, focused on the U.S.-brokered peace proposal with Russia. According to a...

The Nature of the Next American Cycle

The United States is in the middle of a storm, the tempest from which it will not emerge until the end of the decade....

George Answers Your Questions: On the 28-Point Plan to Resolve Ukraine

On the 28-Point Plan to Resolve Ukraine Nov. 24, 2025 Question: Where does Belarus figure in all of this? It borders NATO in the Baltics and...

New Cable Connections to Christmas Island

(click to enlarge) For more than three decades, Christmas Island has depended on phosphate mining and exports for its economic livelihood. But these supplies won’t...

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